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“...Great Britain and ‘he East.
November 22, 1941.
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EAST
INCORPORATING "THE NEAR EAST AND INDIA”
Telegrams: Eastaprox, Westcent, London
Telephone: Holborn 8254-5
Registered as a Newspaper
The authority for 30 years on the industry,
economics and current affairs of Great
Britain, the Balkans, Turkey, Egypt, the
Sudan, Malta, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria,
Iraq, Iran, Arabia, India, Afghanistan,
the Netherlands East Indies, the
Federated Malay States, China and Japan.
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EAST, LTD.
133-136, High Holborn, London, W.C.l
No. 1591—Vol. LVII.
Postage: Inland lid., Abroad Id.
MR. CHURCHILL’S ASSURANCE
Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL has
given an assurance that no un-
necessary obstacles shall be put in the
way of Britain’s export trade while war
lasts. He said that cuts in our export
trade were not due to deference to the
United States.
That might have been an answer to
the editorial article in last week’s
Great Britain and the East, which
urged that the greatest and wisest...”
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“...it—we shall find
that, apart from its extremities, it is sur-
prisingly poor* in oil. The rich producing
areas of the Caucasus, of Iran, the Dutch
East Indies and Iraq, the oilfields of
Bahrein, Saudi-Arabia, British Borneo,
Burma, Sakhalin, Japan, and India are
mostly situated on the outer fringes of this
extensive territory. This does not mean
necessarily that its vast hinterland is
devoid of major oil deposits. Petroleum
, has been found by the Russians in Siberia,
in Turkestan, and other parts of Central
Asia, and the possibility that hitherto
untapped resources may one day be
opened up elsewhere in the huge Asian
mainland cannot be excluded.
By far the most important accumula-
tion of oil in the East is found in the com-
paratively small area bounded by the
Caucasus Mountain range, by south-
western Iran and northern Iraq, to which
may be added the producing fields of the
Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf and
of the nearbv Arabian mainland bordering
the latter. The accompanying map...”
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“...Africa gener-
ally and in the Arab countries, particu-
larly in Palestine, Trans-Jordan, and the
Yemen. Arab students in Palestine had
been offered a complete education in Italy
for £2 a year. In Iraq the Germans were
busy, as they were in the Balkans.
Now the aim of the British Council is
not political, but the Germans and the
Italians were using culture for political
ends.
One important thing helped the work
of the British Council—the welcome given
to it by Governments and peoples in the
East.
In charge of the region which includes
the Near and Middle East is Martin Blake,
an alert, progressive man with a good
brain and more than usually careful
speech, who was eight years a master at
Westminster School. Earlier he had been
a master at Dartmouth, had been two
As soon as the trouble was over in Iraq, the British Institute at Baghdad was reopened.
Here, at the opening ceremony, are:—
Seyid Nasral al-Jarsi (then Minister of Social Affairs and Economics) ;
Seyid Musfatafa al-Umari (then Minister...”
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“...KHARTOUM P.O. Box 221
ALEXANDRIA P.O. Box 360
CAIRO P.O. Box 13
Dingwall Cotts & Co., Ltd.
VANCOUVER
CAPITAL (fully paid) - £1,000,000
RESERVE £760,000
Reserve Liability of Shareholders,
£1,000,000
Branches in Iran :—
A hwaz
Bushire Kermanshah
Hamadan Khurramshahr
Isfahan Meshed
Chief Office in Iran—TEHERAN.
T abriz
Resht
Shiraz
Sultanabad
Teheran
{Bazaar Office')
Zahedan
Branches in Iraq :—Baghdad, Basra.
The Bank transacts Banking business of every description in
and connected with Iran and Iraq ; and in London, grants
Drafts, Telegraphic Transfers and Letters of Credit, and
negotiates or collects Bills on Iran and Iraq.
Head Office - 11, TELEGRAPH ST.,
MOORGATE, E.C.2...”
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