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'Muscat. Wazir of - Appointment, Leave, Pay, etc, of' [210r] (429/546)
The record is made up of 1 volume (273 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1927-27 Apr 1930. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Private. Muecat. ' ^
April i8th, i931.
Dear Mr. Howell,
I regret to have to tell you that I tendered my
resignation last week; the letters giving my reasons will
doubtless reach you in due course through the official
channels. I have no other post to go to, so you will
appreciate that I have not taken the step li^iitly* If I
had not been enveloped in a fog of official secrecy, knowing
little or nothing of what was going on, X might have
acted differently.
o me, as financial adviser, the main issue at
stake is Muscat's solvency; the chief concern of
tne Gull autiiorities seems to be the minimum which
can be contributed towards retrenchment by the Muscat
Iniantry. ^very device has been used to protect the
Levy budget, including cooked 1 inures and the employment
of the Consular treasury staff on the preparation of
formidable but inaccurate ,l man-day ,, tables! Muscats
daily increasing indebtedness is ignored in the interest
attaching to the military versus civilian contest.
I resigned in order to bring things out into the
open, and to see exactly where X stood.
Before receipt of the letter giving my reasons,
„ ' * '■
Colonel Biscoe accepted, or advised the Council to accept,
my resignation; X am not sure which, as his telegram has
not been shown to me. The Council» after a private interview
with the P. A. f made it clear that they associated them
selves with the present financial policy# and have asked
me to reconsider my resignation. This is one point oleajf*
up. The Council are not being driven by me to accept an
unwelcome
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Most of the correspondence relates to the appointment of a Financial Adviser to the Sultan of Muscat. Letters discuss Bertram Thomas role as Financial Adviser and his replacement by Stuart Edwin Hedgcock. Also discussed is Thomas' crossing of the Rub al Khali; possible recruitment of British officers in Iraq; proposals that Captain Robin Williams George Stephens should act as Financial Adviser; other topics include the Sultan of Muscat's [Taymūr bin Fayṣal] visit to Europe and improvements of the customs administration at Sur.
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- 1 volume (273 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order. The file also has an index at the front.
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Foliation: The main foliation sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A second foliation sequence is present between ff. 4-251; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
Foliation errors: 3 and 3A; 94 and 94A.
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- IOR/R/15/1/452
- Title
- 'Muscat. Wazir of - Appointment, Leave, Pay, etc, of'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:3v, 3ar:3av, 4r:93v, 94ar:94av, 94r:267v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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