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Memoir of the Career of Thomas Edward Rogers [17r] (33/118)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in Mid 20th century. 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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choice of passage to India? Or was his presence a warning to young hotheads,
not yet aware that lesser and more dangerous breeds began at Calais, not to
embarrass him or his Foreign Service colleague along our way? When our journey
faltered in some of the thirteen countries we defied ill luck by crossing we
felt we had need of both good wishes and warning. For with the near empty pockets
of students we could only run to the second hand Ford V8 tourer I had found near
my digs in the Kings Road in Chelsea which the other three still at Cambridge
came down to try out and approve.
After testing the car out on the Kingston by-pass it shaped up well enough
when checked over by the mechanic of the party, Adair, and fitted with extra
petrol and water tanks for the Syrian desert between Damascus and Baghdad. We had
no trouble on European roads until standards dropped from Hungary onwards. True,
I had scattered a herd of pigs that, on my version of the facts, culpably charged
the car in Austria. But there was no damage to the car, only to our pocket - the
price of one small pig. I tested the car and my driving reputation further by
dislodging at night a heavy Bulgarian frontier barrier left unmarked and unlit by
frontier guards and customs men. They were furious at our failure to see their
post was closed and they off duty. There was still no damage to the car if our
morale and eardrums were temporarily dented by fierce Bulgar oaths against which
we were disarmed rather than armed by our one word of Bulgarian - a rasping
guttural polysyllable meaning ’thank you'.
The car's real troubles began in Asiatic Turkey. Adair's camera recorded our
need to remake the road as we went along (the shifting of mid-road large stones to
deep ruts full of mud). Large stones helped us again when we had to dismantle a
bent trackrod and straighten it on two boulders with straight edges an inch apart.
The camera did not record our arrest by military police - a fair cop, we might have
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The file consists of a memoir written by Thomas Edward Rogers. The memoir covers his background, education and career. He also records his reasons for joining the Indian Political Service The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. . The memoir relates his career in India and in the Foreign Service in Bengal, Persia [Iran] and the Gulf, Quetta (including experiences of post-Independence unrest), and as Deputy Secretary in the Pakistan Cabinet Secretariat. It also relates his career with the Foreign Office in Spain, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Canada, and Colombia.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 59; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located 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. The file also contains an original foliation sequence.
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