Cox sir percy (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Original blue printed wraps 21 x 34cm, original title pages, xviii + 164pp. Wraps fair only, with loss to spine, and small chips to edges. Interiors near fine. Document, containing 339 items dated 13 Feb to 7 Oct 1913. Recurrent themes include the rumoured return of ex-Shah Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar who had been deposed in 1909 ("The Cabinet are anxious about his real movements, as there are repeated reports of activity among His Majesty's partisans in Europe, and they fear that the influence of Shuja-ed-Dowleh would secure his reception in Azerbaijan with open arms. Reports of the arrival of suspicious persons disguised as dervishes on the Turco-Persian frontier are constantly coming in." (p16), followed by much on his actual or rumoured whereabouts, possible disguises, Russian help blocking his return etc; operations against Salah ed Dowleh, capture, escape and banishment; Mohammerah-Khoremabad and Julfa-Tabriz Railways; regional and oil field security; Indian and Russian troop movements; damage to trade from exorbitant mule transport costs; caravan movements and security; Colonel Harald Hjalmarson's Swedish Gendarmerie (protecting against tribal raids on roads and in rural areas); the murder of Mme Constant (wife of Belgian Director of Customs); Captain Wilson's "urgent" survey (demarcating the Turco-Persian boundary); debt to Russia. A final document refers to abandonment of elections.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. A highly detailed description of early Mandate Iraq and its challenges by its first High Commissioner. Self-wraps 16x25cm. Printed by Harrison & Sons, London, for HMSO, (1), v, 126pp, dated 8/23 to the printer's code, with an apparent print run of 625 copies. Disbound from a larger volume with extraction residue to spine. Good with reference number and small ink stamp inside front wrap, and corner creasing to several leaves. The author, identified by his position to the main report and as P.Z. Cox in the appendices, was Percy Zachariah Cox, who served as High Commissioner from October 1920, also as Commander-in-Chief from 1922, until his retirement in 1923. His wide ranging report opens with a survey of political developments, followed by sections on administration, finance, the Iraq Army, Iraq Levies, justice, education, health service, communications and works, Iraq Railways, administration of Auqaf, Christian (Assyrian and Armenian) refugees, and foreign relations. The survey deals with political landscape including pacification of the country region by region, HMG's policy, and Shia leadership; Provisional Government (formation of Cabinet, work done so far, the Cairo Conference, Saiyid Talib, Kurdish districts); and Amir Faisal's arrival, election and accession. Cox's review of internal administration addresses how the new system is running, difficulties and tribal issues in various divisions, and French authority beyond the frontier; elective bodies; police (regular, CID, Railway police, Camel Corps ("so conspicuous a success led by Capt Williams at Nasiriyah", etc); prisons; agriculture; arms traffic from Syria, Central Arabia, Persia and in the Persian Gulf ("a lucrative business"). On the Syrian traffic, the report describes how the British sought to engage with the French and the kinds of response received, revealing that caravans were taking arms to Najd which Ibn Saud corroborated, with concerns expressed about this passing through Iraq. Central Arabian traffic is difficult to monitor as arms are carried by caravan in small quantities, though the Shaikh of Kuwait is making attempts to control it. Steps are also being taken to limit traffic into Iraq via the Gulf to Hail, Kuwait and Shatt al-Arab. The section on finance addresses the impact of the 1920 disturbances, decisions reached at the Cairo Conference, with details on wider receipts and expenditures, institutional arrangements etc. The section on Auqaf (Waqf, or charitable giving) notes the Ottomans "left a legacy of ruined or dilapidated religious establishments", describing what is being done with respect to rebuilding, staffing, schools, Ramadan bonus, etc. Discussion of foreign relations covers Turkey (rumours of Kamalist attack, the Kurds, frontiers); Najd with much on the activities of Ibn Saud, his relations with Kuwait, Ikhwan propaganda, the provisional frontier, etc; Persia; and Pusht-i-Kuh. Appendices include key Proclamations and Communications. Rare.…

A wide-ranging collection of formal documents, chronicling Cox's stellar service as a political operative and military officer in the Gulf. Cox was Winston Churchill's key advisor at the Cairo Conference, and his career peaked with his appointment as high commissioner in the new state of Iraq. Cox (1864-1937) served as political resident in the Gulf between 1904 and 1920, proving a highly successful manager of Britain's relationships with the rulers of the Trucial States, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. "That he was nevertheless little known to the general public was due in part to his own silence and profound dislike of anything that savoured of self-advertisement; and in part to the widespread and erroneous belief that Colonel Lawrence had something like a monopoly of knowledge of Arab affairs and of prestige among the Arabs" (Graves, p. 19). The earliest document in this collection, dated 23 April 1915, promotes Cox to resident of the first class. Accompanying it is 1921 appointment, signed by George V and Winston Churchill (as secretary of state for the colonies), making him Britain's senior political and military representative in Iraq. A warrant from the following year, signed by George V, empowers Cox to negotiate a treaty of friendship and alliance with Faisal I, and also included is a grant of arms for Lady Cox (1866-1956), issued following her receipt of the DBE in 1923 for services in Iraq. Diplomatic success and proximity to power brought many grants and gongs. In 1925, for example, Cox's contribution to Middle Eastern affairs was marked by a grant of heraldic supporters, allowing him "on the dexter side a Persian tribesman holding in his exterior hand a rifle proper, and on the sinister side an Arab Bedouin carrying a laker falcon upon the fist of his exterior hand". In the opinion of Sir Arnold Wilson, writing in the foreword to Phillip Graves's biography (included here), Cox exercised "a remarkable, almost effortless, moral supremacy. So long as there are men living in the Gulf and in Iraq and Arabia who held converse with him, he will be remembered with affection and respect. So long as Britain exercises responsibility and, therefore, a measure of authority in those regions, his despatches, his policies, his methods, and his example will be invoked" (pp. 13-14). This collection was sold at Sotheby's, London, on 18 December 1986 (lot 249), passing into the collection of Steve Forbes, the chairman of Forbes Magazine and a presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Phillip Graves, The Life of Sir Percy Cox, 1941. Together, 25 items, including 18 loose certificates and documents, 4 grants in red cloth boxes, 2 framed pieces, and octavo vol. (Full inventory on request.) Light creasing and soiling from handling, red boxes worn and stained, loss to one clasp, framed pieces unexamined out of frame, one framed piece with backing beginning to come away: very good.…