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Microfilm
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Middle
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| Title |
Description |
Call
Number |
Separate
Records Available? |
| Confidential
British Foreign Office political correspondence.
Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1946 |
The Political Correspondence Files
comprise mostly letters and telegrams between the
Foreign Office and the diplomatic posts, along with
instructions from London and dispatches from the
posts. In addition, there are large numbers of documents
created by the Foreign Office such as minutes of
meetings, reports, and correspondence with other
government ministries and foreign government embassies
in London. The files also contain cabinet papers
and parliamentary debates dealing with foreign policy.
Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4216 |
No |
| Confidential
British Foreign Office political correspondence.
Palestine, 1947-1948 |
The Political Correspondence Files
are the central archive of documentation created
by the Foreign Office, Great Britain’s equivalent
of the U.S. State Department. This collection documents
the forming of the Jewish and Arab states surrounding
Jerusalem. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4215 |
No |
| Confidential
U.S. diplomatic post records. Middle East, 1942-1944 |
Representing papers from diplomats stationed in
Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. Guide available. |
MICFILM 1632 |
No |
| Confidential
U.S. State Department central files: Egypt, 1945-1949 |
The Central Files on Egypt from
1945 to 1959 document the concurrent rise of modern
Egyptian nationalism and the fall of British control
over the Suez Canal and the Sudan. Modern Egyptian
history is closely tied to the volatile history
of the Suez Canal; the State Department files offer
substantial documentation of the canal’s role in
Egypt’s national and international affairs during
these crucial postwar years. Guide available.
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MICFILM 1703 |
No |
| Confidential
U.S. State Department central files: Palestine and
Israel; internal affairs 1945-1949 and foreign affairs,
1945-1949 |
The collection includes: reports
by diplomatic personnel; and reports and correspondence
to and from the Office of the Secretary of State,
the State Department's Office of Middle Eastern
Affairs, particularly the Israel Office, the White
House, the Defense Department, including military
attache, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, American and international
Jewish organizations, American diplomatic posts
in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia,
Iraq, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 1362 |
No |
| Confidential
U.S. State Department central files: Palestine and
Israel; internal affairs 1950-1954 |
Files for 1950-1954 document a
wide range of topics including: large-scale Jewish
immigration to Palestine, Britain's withdrawal of
its unworkable mandate in Palestine, United States'
Middle East policies from 1950 through 1954, the
role of the U.S. in the establishment of the State
of Israel, troubled years of Israeli-Arab confrontation,
Zionist underground organizations, Arab attitudes
toward partition of Palestine, Israeli politics
and government, and British and American efforts
to regulate immigration limits. Guide available.
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MICFILM 1393 |
No |
| Confidential
U.S. State Department central files: Syria, 1950-1954
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This collection records American
diplomatic reporting on a variety of topics, including
national defense, the press, manufacturing, communications
and transportation, economic matters, political
rights, land rights, Syrian agents in the United
States, aviation, commerce and navigation, and treaties
and relations with Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan,
India, and Turkey. Guide available. |
MICFILM 1631 |
No |
| The
Middle East: a documentary resource: Series one:
Arab-Israeli relations, 1917-1970 |
With its focus on the struggle
for Palestine, this collection begins with the
Balfour Declaration of 1917 and moves on to present
all the key documents, covering: the background
to the establishment of the State of Israel as
a Jewish national home; Black September; the Border
wars of the 1950's; formation of the United Arab
Republic; and the Paris Peace Conference. Along
with conference reports, ministerial memos and
diplomatic dispatches, there are letters from
the King of Jordan and many other regional leaders,
press releases and arms deal reports. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4285 |
No |
| Palestine
Statehood Committee papers: "Concerning the
campaigns for a Jewish army to save the Jewish people
of Europe and the establishment of a Hebrew republic
in Palestine" |
The Palestine Statehood Committee
Records, 1939-1949, consist of correspondence, memoranda,
reports, publications, advertisements, and clippings
related to five committees active in the United
States from 1939 to 1949: the American Friends of
a Jewish Palestine, the Committee for an Army of
Stateless and Palestinian Jews, the Emergency Committee
to Save the Jewish People of Europe, the American
League for a Free Palestine, and the Hebrew Committee
of National Liberation. Among these papers are materials
on the activities of similar groups in Great Britain
and France: the British League for a Free Palestine,
and the Ligue française pour une Palestine libre.
Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 1669 |
No |
| Records
of the Department of State relating to internal
affairs of Turkey, 1910-1929 |
Reproductions of the records from
the Department of State, 1910-1929, that relate
to Internal Affairs of Turkey, Turkey in Europe,
Crete, Turkey in Asia, Palestine, and Tripoli. The
records, consisting of bound volumes and unbound
documents, are mostly instructions to and dispatches
from diplomatic officials. Also included are notes
between the U.S. Department of State and foreign
diplomatic representatives in the U.S.; some of
these are written entirely in Arabic. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 1518 |
No |
| Records
of the Department of State relating to the internal
affairs of Palestine, 1930-1944 |
This collection include dispatches,
instructions, and miscellaneous correspondence dealing
with topics such as political affairs and government;
public order and safety; military affairs; social
matters (including history and culture); economic
conditions (including immigration and emigration);
industry and agriculture; communications and transportation;
and navigation. Guide available. |
MICFILM 1517 |
No |
| Richard
M. Nixon national security files, 1969-1974. Middle
East |
National Security Files are the
"Country Files" of the National Security
Files for White House use. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4278 |
No |
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