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Offices: Individuals., 1922

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, India Office and others, relates to 'Arabia'.

FO 1016/260

Slavery in Persian Gulf States, 1953

This file contains correspondence relating to: HMG's advice to Gulf Sheikhs to resist attempts by Saudi Arabia to recover runaway slaves Attempts to recover British protected persons who have been enslaved in Saudi Arabia, including the case of Afrah Bint Mohammad who was kidnapped from Buraimi The extinction, in Bahrain, of forced unpaid labour in date gardens and debt bondage in pearl diving The regulations governing pearl diving, issued by the Ruler of Qatar The manumission of slaves across the Trucial Coast, including: Id Bin Suwaid, a slave of the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh S

FO 371/168904

Oil concessions, 1963

This file contains correspondence relating to: Visit of the Riyadh representative of the Getty Oil Company to London on his way back to Saudi Arabia (1) Report that James W Menhall is currently negotiating with the Saudi Government for oil concession rights in the Red Sea area of western Arabia (2) Press cutting of an article in the Financial Times reporting that Menhall has made an offer for the concession rights (3) Reports stating that a dispute between the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company and Saudi Arabia over royalties due to the Saudi Government for oil passing through the pipe

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Offices: Individuals., 1922

Slavery in Persian Gulf States, 1953

Oil concessions, 1963