'File 34/8 British Council Visitors for U.K.' [‎3r] (5/64)

Ref. Gli)N/320/2.
THE BRITISH COUNCIL
By Air Mail.
3, Hanover Street,
London, W.l.
14th April, 1948.
Dear Sir Rupert Hay,
British Council Visitors. 1948/49.
1. I am wiriting to inform you that in the British Council
Budget for 1948/49 the sum of £150 (one hundred and fifty pounds)
has been allocated towards the expenses of a visitor from Bahrain,
or froiii any of the territories with which you are concerned in
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
2. This sum is sufficient to cover a visit and conducted
tour in the U.K. for about six weeks, the British Council being
responsible for all expenses and arrangements, but it does not
cover any fares to or from the U.K.
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3. Apart from general sight-seeing and visiting, the
British Council Visitors 1 Department is able to arrange, through
its staff and through its Advisory Committees, for the visitor
to meet the leading British representatives of his own profession
or trade and to visit any special institutions in which he is
interested. In recent years the British Council has received a
considerable number of visitors from Middle East countries, and
as a general rule these visits are much appreciated and have a
valuable influence.
4. As you are doubtless aware, a visitor, to justify
subsidization by the British Council, should be a person of
standing in his profession or trade and likely to exert in his
own sphere a considerable influence which may be strengthened
and widened by a visit to jshe U.K.. It is very desirable that
he should have a good or sufficient knowledge of English to get
the best out of his contacts and visits in the U.K.
6» For your information I enclose a copy of a form which
we ask our overseas Representatives to have filled in for any
visitors recommended by them. It is not essential that this form
should be filled in by any visitor recommended by you, but we •
should naturally be grateful for some information on the post,
influence and chief interests of any person nominated by you,
particularly in order to allow us to have some standard of
comparison with other Middle East visitors.
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N 6. These visits are costly, and the British Council much
regrets that it cannot this year offer to pay the fares to and
from the U.K. We very much hope that you'may be able to recommend
a visitor who would appreciate and profit by such a visit, and
who would also be able to pay his own fares.
7. I should remind you that academic visits should be arranged
before early June or after mid September and school teachers should
not come in August. Owing to the Olympic Games this year in
London at the beginning of August, this month is also particularly
difficult in which to find accommodation.
Lt. Col. Sir Rupert Hay, K.C.I.E.,
The Political Representative,
Bahrain,
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .