Oil Men, Territorial Ambitions and Political Agents: From Pearls to Oil in the Trucial States of the Gulf (2 Vols)

David Heard

doi:10.2307/j.ctvhrd0st

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95994-064-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95994-065-8
Publisher: Gerlach Press, Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 799
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Common Acronyms No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
4. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
1. 1.1 Why is There so Much Oil in the United Arab Emirates? No access
2. 1.2 The Search for Oil No access
3. 1.3 The Red Line Agreement and the IPC, PCL and PD(TC) No access
4. 1.4 A Summary of Events in the UAE up to 1939. The First Geologists No access
5. 1.5 The Concession Negotiators No access
6. 1.6 Lermitte, the PD(TC) New Man No access
7. 1.7 And His (Her) Majesty’s Government (HMG) No access
8. 1.8 What Was Lermitte Doing when, on 3 September 1939, War Broke out in Europe? No access
9. 1.9 Lermitte Visited the Rulers No access
10. 1.10 A Concession for Fujairah? No access
11. 1.11 A Dramatic Turn of Events No access
12. 1.12 Every Inch to be Covered by a Concession No access
13. 1.13 There Appears to Have Been War Panic in London No access
14. 1.14 Williamson (Geologist) was Busy in London No access
15. 1.15 Preparing for Post-war Operations No access
16. 1.16 An American Visitor No access
17. 1.17 Longrigg Returns from the War No access
18. 1.18 The War is Over No access
1. 2.1 A Large Step Back in Time No access
2. 2.2. The Role of HMG No access
3. 2.3 The Trucial Oman Levies (Later Trucial Oman Scouts, TOS) No access
4. 2.4 The IPC Office in London No access
5. 2.5 Time for the Geologists to Return to the Trucial Coast No access
6. 2.6 But Wait: Mohamed Ali Huwaidin al Kitbi has Something to Say No access
7. 2.7 Jebel Faiyah at Last, or Not? No access
8. 2.8 Why Shoot at a Geologist? No access
9. 2.9 Geologists Resume Work at Faiyah No access
10. 2.10 Was it Much Ado About Nothing? No access
11. 2.11 Plans for 3 Geophysical Parties to Come to the Trucial Coast in Autumn 1946 No access
12. 2.12 The First Geophysical Survey in the North of the Country No access
13. 2.13 Vehicles - for the Sheikhs No access
14. 2.14 And Now We Shoot at the New Man - Welcome to Abu Dhabi No access
15. 2.15 Back to the North Where No One Wants to Know the Ghafalah Tribe No access
16. 2.16 The Surveyor, Fallon Does Not Find it Easy No access
17. 2.17 Would You Believe it? No access
18. 2.18 Another Season of Geophysical Surveys, also in Abu Dhabi Territory No access
19. 2.19 Jackson PD(TC) is Summoned by Sheikh Shakhbut No access
1. 3.1 PD(TC) to Have a Man at Buraimi/Al ‘Ain No access
2. 3.2 Bird is Engaged No access
3. 3.3 How did Bird Equip Himself for Such a Venture? No access
4. 3.4 Bird at Buraimi/Jahili. In Al ‘Ain No access
5. 3.5 Bird’s Second Trip to Buraimi/Jahili No access
6. 3.6 Sultan with Bird No access
7. 3.7 But Could the Sultan Deliver? No access
8. 3.8 Was Mr. W. Thesiger a Pest? No access
9. 3.9 Bird Goes to London No access
10. 3.10 The Sultan Asserts Himself No access
11. 3.11 Bird Goes to Muscat Again No access
12. 3.12 The Geologist Survey - for a Time No access
13. 3.13 A Re-appraisal No access
14. 3.14 Bird Back at Jahili No access
1. 4.1 Poverty, Gossip and Intrigue No access
2. 4.2 Did the Company Help to Ease the Poverty? No access
3. 4.3 Now a Bit of Economics No access
4. 4.4 Longrigg Returns to Abu Dhabi After 10 Years No access
5. 4.5 Ra’s al-Khaimah, PD(TC) and a New Ruler No access
6. 4.6 How to Make an Enemy of Your Neighbour - by Harbouring His Enemies No access
7. 4.7 Dubai No access
8. 4.8 Abu Dhabi No access
9. 4.9 And How were Disputes Settled? No access
10. 4.10 Hamriyah Sheikh Says ‘Me Too’ No access
11. 4.11 More Surprises, from Abu Dhabi No access
12. 4.12 Geophysical Party 3 Returns After the Summer 1948 No access
13. 4.13 The Outlaws in the Desert No access
14. 4.14 The Trespassers. Aramco No access
15. 4.15 And in London No access
16. 4.16 Popof and the Locusts No access
17. 4.17 Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan bin Zayed Receives a Loan No access
18. 4.18 Enter Weightman by Sea-plane No access
1. 5.1 A New Decade No access
2. 5.2 Choosing the Site for the First Well No access
3. 5.3 But We Must Have One Important Matter Clear First, the Boundary No access
4. 5.4 An Interesting Rock Structure Crosses Under the Dubai/Abu Dhabi Border No access
5. 5.5 The Political Resident Decides No access
6. 5.6 Let’s Drill a Hole No access
7. 5.7 The Preparations for the Oil Company Invasion No access
8. 5.8 A Well Site Decided No access
9. 5.9 Longrigg Comes Again to the Trucial Coast No access
10. 5.10 Labour Problems No access
11. 5.11 The Iraq Dimension No access
12. 5.12 Banking No access
13. 5.13 And Start Drilling No access
14. 5.14 The Second Aramco ‘Incursion’ That was Not, and an American Visitor No access
15. 5.15 Habits, Good and Bad, are Infectious No access
16. 5.16 A Regrettable Incident No access
17. 5.17 Support for the Operation at Ra’s Sadr No access
18. 5.18 Welcome Visitors from Dubai No access
19. 5.19 The British Community was Growing! No access
20. 5.20 Geophysical Again No access
21. 5.21 A Bit of Petroleum Engineering No access
22. 5.22 So to Dubai - Jebel Ali No access
1. 6.1 Alarm No access
2. 6.2 What are Territorial Waters? No access
3. 6.3 The Waters of the Gulf No access
4. 6.4 Groups are Consulted No access
5. 6.5 A Quick Change in PD(TC) Policy No access
6. 6.6 Lermitte’s New Instructions No access
7. 6.7 Let’s Look at the Islands No access
8. 6.8 Skliros Tells Groups About the Threat, April ’49 No access
9. 6.9 The Saudi Proclamation No access
10. 6.10 What does Arbitration Mean? No access
11. 6.11 Longrigg Takes Legal Advice in London No access
12. 6.12 The Cloud Gathers, while HMG Speaks at Last No access
13. 6.13 And Sheikh Shakhbut Declares No access
14. 6.14 A Very Angry Sheikh No access
15. 6.15 August in the Gulf No access
16. 6.16 Longrigg does Some Research No access
17. 6.17 Is Longrigg Trying to Apply Pressure? No access
18. 6.18 Longrigg Visits the Trucial Coast Again No access
19. 6.19 The Second Island Survey July 1950 No access
20. 6.20 PD(TC) Appoints an Arbitrator, and a New Man on the Trucial Coast. Henderson No access
21. 6.21 Just a Minute No access
22. 6.22 Sheikh Shakhbut Mends Fences No access
23. 6.23 Sheikh Shakhbut Signs with Superior No access
24. 6.24 A Surprising Development No access
25. 6.25 A Date is Fixed, Aug. ’51 No access
26. 6.26 Sheikh Shakhbut Makes International Legal History No access
27. 6.27 And the Other Sheikhdoms? No access
1. 7.1 A Reminder No access
2. 7.2 Bedouin Know No Borders No access
3. 7.3 Abu Dhabi’s Border with Saudi Arabia No access
4. 7.4 Sheikh Shakhbut’s Brother Sheikh Hazza Goes to a Meeting in Saudi Arabia No access
5. 7.5 A Major Set-back for PD(TC) No access
6. 7.6 PD(TC) is Pushing HMG No access
7. 7.7 The Dash to Qatar No access
8. 7.8 And in London No access
9. 7.9 Lermitte at Bahrain No access
10. 7.10 Half the Land is Closed to the Company No access
11. 7.11 Geophysics 1951 No access
12. 7.12 Frustration and No Decision No access
13. 7.13 Let’s Try to Apply Pressure on the Foreign Office in London No access
14. 7.14 The Dispute Takes a New Turn No access
15. 7.15 Muddle Among the Politicals, while Codrai and Ali Tajir Get to Work No access
16. 7.16 Sir Rupert Hay, Political Resident, Tries to Stop Codrai and Tajir No access
17. 7.17 The Political Resident is Instructed at Last No access
18. 7.18 The Saudi Collection of Zakat No access
19. 7.19 Not Much Progress No access
20. 7.20 Sheikh Zayed and Buckmaster Go to Liwa No access
21. 7.21 Sheikh Shakhbut is Not Worried? No access
22. 7.22 Turki bin Ataishan Arrives at Hamasa No access
23. 7.23 What was Going on in London? No access
24. 7.24 Back to the Trucial Coast No access
25. 7.25 PD(TC) Helps Sheikh Shakhbut No access
26. 7.26 Philby and Rentz No access
27. 7.27 Rentz the Arabist No access
28. 7.28 The Rentz Report No access
29. 7.29 His Majesty’s Government (HMG) No access
1. 8.1 PD(TC) Instructed to Try for the Water No access
2. 8.2 AIOC (D’Arcy or BP) Try for the Water No access
3. 8.3 The End of Negotiations No access
4. 8.4 Victor Hashim Returns and Offers to Help No access
5. 8.5 Progress at Dubai and Qatar while Abu Dhabi Takes Time No access
6. 8.6 Sheikh Shakhbut Goes to India No access
7. 8.7 London Confers. Enter CFP, Compagnie Française des Pétroles (alias TOTAL) No access
8. 8.8 Stockwell’s Second Visit to Abu Dhabi No access
9. 8.9 Stockwell Leaves Again Empty-handed No access
10. 8.10 Sheikh Shakhbut Wins No access
11. 8.11 AIOC Sends Hillyard to Live in Abu Dhabi No access
12. 8.12 How Big is the Concession Area? No access
13. 8.13 The First Offshore Survey No access
14. 8.14 Conclusion No access
1. 9.1 First a Word from Henderson No access
2. 9.2 Buraimi. After Bird No access
3. 9.3 Sheikh Zayed Goes to Ra’s Sadr No access
4. 9.4 Bird Gives Up? No access
5. 9.5 The Sultan and the Sheikh Should Get Together No access
6. 9.6 The Invasion, 31 Aug. ’52 No access
7. 9.7 Skeikh Zayed’s Reaction No access
8. 9.8 Bird in Action No access
9. 9.9 What had Been Going on in London? No access
10. 9.10 IPC News Item No access
11. 9.11 The ‘Stand-still Agreement’ No access
12. 9.12 A Loan for the Man in Charge, Sheikh Said bin Shakhbut No access
13. 9.13 The Sultan Acts No access
14. 9.14 Sheikh Zayed Comes to Sharjah to Meet Bird and Codrai No access
15. 9.15 Sheikh Zayed in Dubai to Meet the PR. Political Progress? No access
16. 9.16 A Visit to Muscat that was Not No access
17. 9.17 Turki Does Not Honour the Agreement. HMG Shows the Flag No access
18. 9.18 HMG is Provoked into Action No access
19. 9.19 Starvation at Hamasa? No access
20. 9.20 A New Agreement, 30 July ’54 No access
21. 9.21 Turki bin Ataishan Goes Home No access
22. 9.22 Who Keeps to the Agreement? No access
23. 9.23 Preparing for the Tribunal No access
24. 9.24 Henderson’s Report No access
1. 10.1 Where are they? No access
2. 10.2 Who was the First European to Visit Liwa? No access
3. 10.3 Thesiger was First No access
4. 10.4 PD(TC) Shows Interest No access
5. 10.5 Hay Says No to PD(TC) and Yes to the Locust Team No access
6. 10.6 HMG is Aroused, and Sends Viscount Buckmaster No access
7. 10.7 The Gateway to Liwa No access
8. 10.8 Feeling Towards the South No access
9. 10.9 The First Car in Liwa - a Land-Rover No access
10. 10.10 The Geophysicists Go to Sabkha Matti First No access
11. 10.11 Codrai’s Next Trip to Liwa No access
12. 10.12 The TOL are Established in Liwa No access
13. 10.13 Codrai Goes to Liwa Again No access
14. 10.14 Liwa Oases Surveys No access
15. 10.15 Locusts No access
1. 11.1 Frustrations No access
2. 11.2 Another Well in Abu Dhabi Territory No access
3. 11.3 Heseldin Visits the Trucial Coast No access
4. 11.4 Let’s Look at Murban No access
5. 11.5 The Wrong Side of the Line. What Line? No access
6. 11.6 Some Geophysical Work in the North No access
7. 11.7 Fujairah No access
8. 11.8 A Bit of Drilling Explanation No access
9. 11.9 Well Murban 1. A Wild Cat No access
10. 11.10 Heseldin Goes on Tour No access
11. 11.11 Heseldin Visits Sheikh Shakhbut Again No access
12. 11.12 Heseldin’s Letter and Another Visit to Sheikh Shakhbut No access
13. 11.13 Geophysical No access
14. 11.14 Let’s try Using Helicopters for a Gravity Survey No access
15. 11.15 The Geologists, Among Others, are Not Satisfied No access
16. 11.16 The Next Well - Not Murban No access
17. 11.17 An Export Terminal? No access
18. 11.18 The Secret No access
1. 12.1 First an Important Matter, the Flag No access
2. 12.2 A Very Unsatisfactory Situation No access
3. 12.3 HMG Springs into Action No access
4. 12.4 The Right to Unrestricted Access to all Abu Dhabi Territory No access
5. 12.5 PD(TC) Moved Quickly and Sheikh Shakhbut Comes Home No access
6. 12.6 Now a Sad Event, Some Politics and a Few Other Matters No access
7. 12.7 Aramco Speaks No access
8. 12.8 Aramco is Instructed No access
9. 12.9 A Saudi Incursion in the West No access
10. 12.10 Information and Misinformation No access
11. 12.11 Where are Sufuk and Umm al Zamul? No access
12. 12.12 Sheikh Shakhbut Under Threat? No access
13. 12.13 Some Interesting Notes from the Files No access
14. 12.14 The Abu Dhabi Development Company No access
15. 12.15 Pearls No access
16. 12.16 The Tribunal Meets No access
17. 12.17 The Tribunal Collapses and the Lion Asserts No access
18. 12.18 Afterwards No access
19. 12.19 Another Very Important Meeting No access
Epilogue No access Pages 417 - 418
Time line No access Pages 419 - 422
1. 1. Thesiger’s map No access
2. 2. Trucial Coast No access
3. 3. Buraimi No access
4. 4. Dubai from original surveys 1933 and 1936 and amended 1948 No access
5. 5. Codrai’s sketch of first trip to Liwa No access
6. 6. Codrai’s sketch of second trip to Liwa No access
7. 7. Map ‘No Oil Operations’ 1954. Note ADPC is PC(TC) No access
8. 8. Map of surveys to mid. 1956 No access
1. 1. Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum. Ruler of Dubai 1912-1958 No access
2. 2. Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid. Ruler of Umm al Quwain 1929-1981 No access
3. 3. Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan. Ruler of Abu Dhabi 1928-1966 and Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan. Ruler of Ab No access
4. 4. Unloading landing craft Jumana at Khor Ghanadha. For the camp at Ra’s Sadr 1949 No access
5. 5. Unloading at Khor Ghanadha No access
6. 6. Ra’s Sadr well drilling rig. 1950-1951 No access
7. 7. Ali bin Thamir al Mansouri. The famous guide through the Abu Dhabi desert No access
8. 8. Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed, Dubai Ruler 1958-1990, entertains Heseldin, 1954 No access
9. 9. Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan, Abu Dhabi Ruler, and Sheikh Khalid bin Sultan entertain Heseldin, Oct No access
10. 10. Sheikh Saqr bin Sultan, Sharjah Ruler 1951-1965, entertains Heseldin, 1954 No access
11. 11. The track to Dhaid. ‘A halt in the desert’ No access
12. 12. Sheikh Shakhbut with Maud and Heseldin No access
13. 13. Ali Abdulla Huwaidin al Kitbi No access
14. 14. Nasser Abdulatif and his car with bullet hole No access
15. 15. Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa bin Zayed and Bird No access
16. 16. Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan bin Zayed No access
17. 17. Paris arbitration, 1951. Sheikh Shakhbut, Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Saeed bin Shakhbut, Khalifa b No access
18. 18. Abu Dhabi houses No access
19. 19. Maqta crossing joins Abu Dhabi island to mainland No access
20. 20. Abu Dhabi 1940s No access
21. 21. Abu Dhabi Fort behind trees and houses No access
22. 22. Sheikh Shakhbut on drilling rig floor No access
Bibliography No access Pages 457 - 459
About the Author No access Pages 460 - 460
1. Appendix 1: Wheatley to Gibson 29/4/’40 No access
2. Appendix 2: Hinkinbotham to Prior 14/4/’44 No access
3. Appendix 3: Lermitte to Packer 28/8/’44 No access
4. Appendix 4: Note on Parts of Eastern Arabia, Williamsion ’41 No access
5. Appendix 5: Notes on the Trucial Coast, Williamson 27/3/’45 No access
6. Appendix 6: Letter to all Rulers of the Trucial Coast who have Agreements with the Company Sept. ’45 No access
1. Appendix 7: Lermitte to Ruler of Sharjah 26/9/’45 No access
2. Appendix 8: Report of Nasir bin Abdul Latif No access
3. Appendix 9: Lermitte to Packer 7/3/’46 No access
4. Appendix 10: H.M. Jackson to Lermitte 3/11/’47 No access
5. Appendix 11: Residency Agent to Political Agent 4/1/’47 No access
6. Appendix 12: H.M. Jackson to Lermitte 12/11/’47 No access
1. Appendix 13: Lermitte’s List of Tribal Leaders No access
2. Appendix 14: Bird to Hay 20/2/’48 No access
3. Appendix 15: Bird to Lermitte 15/3/’48 No access
4. Appendix 16: Bird to Lermitte 20/3/’48 No access
5. Appendix 17: Bird to Longrigg 30/3/’48 No access
6. Appendix 18: Lermitte to Bird 31/3/’48 No access
7. Appendix 19: Mohamed bin Salmin Agreement 21/4/’48 No access
8. Appendix 19a: Mohamed bin Salmin Agreement 21/4/’48 (Arabic) No access
9. Appendix 20: Humaid bin Rashid 23/4/’48 No access
10. Appendix 20a: Humaid bin Rashid 23/4/’48 (Arabic) No access
11. Appendix 21: Bird to Longrigg 1/5/’48 No access
12. Appendix 22: Bird to Lermitte 2/5/’48 No access
13. Appendix 23: Bird to Longrigg 2/5/’48 No access
14. Appendix 24: Bird to Stobart 12/5/’48 No access
15. Appendix 25: Bird to Sultan Said bin Taimur 13/5/’48 No access
16. Appendix 26: Sultan Saeed bin Taimur to Bird 13/5/’48 No access
17. Appendix 27: Bird to Lermitte 18/5/’48 No access
18. Appendix 28: Bird to Longrigg 19/5/’48 No access
19. Appendix 29: Ubaid bin Juma Agreement 30/5/’48 No access
20. Appendix 30: Bird to Jackson: 6/6/’48 No access
21. Appendix 31: Bird to Longrigg 9/6/’48 No access
22. Appendix 32: Bird to Lermitte 13/6/’48 No access
23. Appendix 33: Jackson to Lermitte 19/10/’48 No access
24. Appendix 34: The Sheikhs’ Letters to Sultan Said bin Taimur No access
25. Appendix 35: Bird to Longrigg 13/6/’49 No access
26. Appendix 36: Bird’s Buraimi History No access
1. Appendix 37: Codrai and the Geologists No access
2. Appendix 38: Codrai on Pearl Diving No access
3. Appendix 39: Bird to Lermitte 20/11/’48 No access
4. Appendix 40: Report on Operations 1948 No access
5. Appendix 41: Henderson’s Report on Aramco Incursion No access
6. Appendix 42: Jackson’s Report. April 1949 No access
7. Appendix 43: The Anti-locust 1949 Journey from Abu Dhabi to Qatar No access
8. Appendix 44: Extract Letter Lermitte to Longrigg 27/4/’49 No access
1. Appendix 45: Bird to Lermitte 7/1/’49 No access
2. Appendix 46: Jackson’s Report on Availability of Labour No access
3. Appendix 47: Henderson to Longrigg 9/8/’49 No access
4. Appendix 48: Lermitte to Longrigg 23/8/’49 No access
5. Appendix 49: Shipping Support No access
6. Appendix 50: Longrigg Notes January 1950 No access
7. Appendix 51: Lermitte to Longrigg 21/5/’51 No access
1. Appendix 52: Memo Longrigg to Skliros 30/9/’48 No access
2. Appendix 53: Letter from Ministry of Fuel and Power No access
3. Appendix 54: Longrigg to Lermitte 25/3/’49 No access
4. Appendix 55: Solicitor’s Note No access
5. Appendix 56: Thani bin Murshid’s Report No access
6. Appendix 57: First Island Survey April 1949 No access
7. Appendix 58: PD(TC) to Sheikh Shakhbut 9\4\’49 No access
8. Appendix 59: Skliros to IPC Board 8/4/’49 No access
9. Appendix 60: Lermitte to London 21/4/’49 No access
10. Appendix 61: Bird to Lermitte 28/4/’49 No access
11. Appendix 62: Lermitte to Sheikh Shakhbut 12/5/’49 No access
12. Appendix 63: Sheikh Shakhbut’s Proclamation No access
13. Appendix 64: Lermitte to Longrigg 8/8/’49 No access
14. Appendix 65: The Second Island Survey No access
15. Appendix 66: Sheikh Shakhbut to Lermitte 21/4/’50 No access
16. Appendix 67: Lermitte to Longrigg 11/5/’50 No access
17. Appendix 68: Press Release No access
18. Appendix 69: Conclusions and Award No access
1. Appendix 70: Henderson to Lermitte 14/6/’51 No access
2. Appendix 71: Bird visits the Foreign Office 31/10/’51 No access
3. Appendix 72: Lermitte to Bird 13/11/’51 No access
4. Appendix 73: Telephone, Bird to Lermitte 23/11/’51 No access
5. Appendix 74: Bird to Lermitte 23/11/’51 No access
6. Appendix 75: Codrai’s Appendices No access
7. Appendix 76: Ali Tajir’s Information No access
8. Appendix 77: Dunn’s Memo No access
9. Appendix 78: Heseldin’s Notes on Dunn’s Report No access
10. Appendix 79: Jackson to Bird, First Letter dated 24/3/’52 No access
11. Appendix 80: Jackson to Bird, Second Letter 24/3/’52 No access
12. Appendix 81: Gibson to FO 29/9/’52 No access
13. Appendix 82: FO to Gibson 24/11/’52 No access
14. Appendix 83: Heseldin to Gibson 18/12/’52 No access
15. Appendix 84: Codrai to Jackson 31/12/’52 Loss of People No access
16. Appendix 85 Henderson’s Notes on Rentz Report 27/10/’52 No access
1. Appendix 86: Stockwell’s Report on First Visit to Abu Dhabi No access
2. Appendix 87: Bridgeman to Hashim 14/7/’52 No access
3. Appendix 88: Sheikh Shakhbut goes to India No access
4. Appendix 89: Sheikh Shakhbut returns from India No access
5. Appendix 90: Out of Pocket Expenses No access
6. Appendix 91: Stockwell to Bridgeman 17/2/’53 No access
7. Appendix 92: Stockwell’s Impression No access
8. Appendix 93: Negotiations and Agreement No access
9. Appendix 94: Salaries and Wages No access
10. Appendix 95: Hillyard to Clark 27/12/’54 No access
11. Appendix 96: Hillyard to Gwyn 16/3/’55 No access
1. Appendix 97: Bird to Jackson 11/12/’51 No access
2. Appendix 98: Bird’s Notes on Meeting with Sheikh Shakhbut 4/3/’52 No access
3. Appendix 99: Jackson to Political Resident 12/10/’52 No access
4. Appendix 100: Bird at Foreign Office 10/10/’52 No access
5. Appendix 101: Codrai to Bahrain 6/11/’52 No access
6. Appendix 102: Political Summary No access
7. Appendix 103: Extract from IPC Daily Digest 26/5/’54 No access
8. Appendix 104: Letter re. Arbitration Agreement 30/7/’54 No access
9. Appendix 105: Henderson to Bird 27/1/’55 No access
10. Appendix 106: Bird to Thesiger 22/2/’55 No access
1. Appendix 107: Locust Survey Trip to Liwa Jan. ’52 No access
2. Appendix 108: Codrai’s Western Trip to Liwa No access
3. Appendix 109: Chatton, Geological Reconnaissance in the Liwa, 2-12/6/’53 No access
4. Appendix 110: Codrai’s Liwa Report April ’55 No access
5. Appendix 111: Sheridon’s Report on Liwa No access
1. Appendix 112: Lermitte to London 10/5/’52 No access
2. Appendix 113: Heseldin’s Report No access
3. Appendix 114: Gibson to Management 15/8/’52 No access
4. Appendix 115: Heseldin to Management, London 8/12/’52 No access
5. Appendix 116: Heseldin’s Tour October 1953 No access
6. Appendix 117: Heseldin calls on Sheikh Shakhbut 10/7/’54 No access
7. Appendix 118: Heseldin’s Farewell to Sheikh Shakhbut 23/8/’54 No access
8. Appendix 119: Codrai’s Report on Khor Fakkan 15/3/’53 No access
1. Appendix 120: Sheikh Shakhbut’s Return from London Aug. ’53 No access
2. Appendix 121: Bird’s Memo 6/5/’54 No access
3. Appendix 122: Sufuk Wells No access