Item BROOKE-POPHAM 2/3 - Background research material, 1930-1935, for lectures on Iraq

Notes, newspaper cuttings, memoranda and letters comprising background research for lectures by Brooke-Popham on Iraq, notably notes on the Saud family dynasty, the Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Jun 1930, the Iraqi Cabinet, the Iraq-Persia frontier dispute, and the RAF in Iraq; drafts of lectures by Brooke-Popham at the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, and the Imperial Defence College, London; a printed copy of the Treaty of Alliance between His Majesty in respect of the United Kingdom and His Majesty the King of Iraq, with an exchange of notes, Baghdad, 30th June 1930 (HMSO, 1931); memorandum on the convention between the Iraq Petroleum Company and the Iraq Government, 24 Mar 1931; letters from Wg Cdr (Alfred) Guy (Roland) Garrod, RAF Headquarters, Iraq, on RAF operations there, including planned operations against Barzan to effect the settlement of Assyrians in the area, Mar 1932; memorandum on the situation in Iraq following a rebellion in the Middle Euphrates area by Sheikh Abdul Wahid and his followers, and the resignation of the Iraqi Government, Mar 1935; papers relating to the situation of the Assyrians in Iraq, notably their desire to be emigrated to a country under the rule of one of the Western nations to avoid persecution in Iraq, including correspondence between Brooke-Popham and Lt Col Sir Francis Henry Humphrys, High Commissioner and Commander in Chief in Iraq, on the former's meetings with Most Rev Rt Hon Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, regarding the persecution of the Assyrians, memoranda on the implementation of schemes for Assyrian resettlement in the Baradost area of Iraq, summaries of negotiations in 1917-1918 between Capt George Frederick Handel Gracey, Intelligence Staff Officer attached to the British Military Mission at Tiflis, Russia, and the Assyrians at Urmia, Persia, during World War One and the role played by them in holding positions abandoned by the Russian Army; notes on the Kurdish situation in Iraq, including the growth of Kurdish nationalism, and a draft article by Brooke-Popham on the role of the RAF in the subjugation of the Kurd rebellion in Iraq led by Sheikh Ahmed of Barzan, Sep 1932. 1 file, 46 items.