Visits to Middle East by leading personalities from UK

This file relates to visits by British and Arab persons to various countries in the Middle East. It contains correspondence on:

• Lord Hore-Belisha's visit to Ankara and Persia [Iran], sponsored by BP. UK Ambassador in Iran R Stevens advises against similar trips being arranged in future because of the political complications (1-3, 5, 7)
• Time and Life correspondent Robert Neville's visit to Aden (6)
• Minister of Defence's proposed visit to Aden, Cyprus, and the Gulf (8)
• Message for General Bourne about the visit of Colonel Martin to units under his command (9)
• Air Chief Marshal Walter Lloyd Dawson's journey from the Far East to the UK (10)
• Proposed visit of General Bourne to Kuwait (11)
• Visit of Executive Vice-President of Pan American Airways Sam Pryor to Aden, Muscat and Baghdad to look into the oil and aviation situation. Wendell Phillips will accompany him, possibly to look for 'two lost cities in Muscat and Oman' (12)
• Visit of Palestinian employee of Shell in Qatar H M Al Khalidi to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It contains several memoranda from Khalidi: 'Report on the Political, Economic, and Social Conditions in Saudi Arabia', dated 4 November 1957; 'Industrial Relations and Personnel Practices of the Arabian American Oil Company', dated 9 November 1957; a report on how Haj Abdulla Darwish is faring in exile in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, with Darwish blaming his downfall in Qatar on the inexperience of Sheikh Ali Bin Abdulla Al Thani and Sheikh Ahmad Bin Ali Al Thani; and a 'Report on my Visit to the Kuwait Oil Company Limited (12-20 October)'. It also contains a résumé of Khalidi's career produced by the Political Agency in Doha (13)