Visit by Mr Barran of Royal Dutch Shell

This file relates to visa applications and visits to the Gulf by various people. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Question of delaying the proposed visit to the Gulf by the Minister of Public Building and Works Robert Joseph Mellish
• Visit by Assistant Director of Naval Sales C A Alldis to the Gulf in January 1968, including: a programme for the visit; a summary of discussions with the Commander Naval Forces Gulf Commodore Thomas Fanshawe on the naval programmes of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman; a summary of preliminary discussions with Consul General D C Carden, Fanshawe and Brigadier P R M Waterfield; and a map of South East Arabia
• Report on the Kuwait Navy
• Accommodation arrangements and the reasons and nature of a visit to the Gulf by S Nogusa of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Report on a visit to Bahrain by M C Hardle of the British Hospitals Export Council, with much of the discussion centred on proposals for a new men's hospital in Manama
• Possibility of the Duke of Edinburgh visiting Kuwait on his return from Australia
• Planned visit by R Hallows for a Bahrain Currency Board meeting
• Private trip to the Near East by Dr Fahim Qubain from the US
• Problems with the procedure for issuing visas for Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial States, including the example of the American Manager of the Kuwait Foreign Trading Contracting and Investment Company Kirk Paulding
• Request from the British Embassy in Paris to assist Michel Habib-Deloncle during his visit to the Gulf, and uncertainty even after he left as to the reason for his visit; and a French newspaper cutting by Habib-Deloncle: 'Les pieds-noirs du Moyen-Orient'
• Reports by C B Duke of his visit to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan for the Middle East Association, including the suggestion that the Sudan market presents opportunities to British exporters
• Request from the UK Ambassador in Vienna A Rumbold for the Foreign Office to assist with the arrangements for former Austrian Foreign Minister Dr Lujo Toncic-Sorinj's visit to the Gulf during a world tour
• Visit by G H Middleton on behalf of Philadelphia Life Insurance Company
• Proposed tour of the Gulf by Vice Admiral Sir Hector MacLean of Elliott Brothers (London) Limited to investigate market possibilities for defence electronic equipment, though he denies that he seeks to make sales
• Visas issued to Jordanian Government officials
• Record of a conversation between the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Goronwy Roberts and David Barran of Shell after the latter's tour of the Gulf where he discussed federation of the Gulf States and the establishment of South Yemen with various Rulers and advisors