‘File 24/4 MR. EL MAKKI (Swiss) & MR. QUISAN (French)’

Title:

‘File 24/4 MR. EL MAKKI (Swiss) & MR. QUISAN (French)’

Contributor:

Superintendent of Police, Karachi (correspondent)
British Legation, Berne (correspondent)
Foreign Office (correspondent)

Date:

1934/1934

Description:

The file contains a small number of letters and telegrams as a result of enquiries made by the Political Agent, Bahrain, about Imperial Airways passengers Captain Henry Guisan, Swiss, born 1899, and his companion Mr El Makki or Mekki, French, born 1892. They had been refused permission to land at Bahrain on 6 June 1934, because they had no transit visas for Bahrain on their passports. In addition to a record of a conversation with Mr Mekki at Muharraq Aerodrome the following day, there are letters from the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Ltd, Bahrain (local agents for Imperial Airways Ltd); the Superintendent of Police, Karachi, reporting his interview with the aircraft’s crew and two letters from the British Legation, Berne, to the Foreign Office, London reporting on Captain Guisan’s background. It was deduced that the most likely object of their trip was to find markets for Swiss war equipment.1 file (24 folios)File papers are arranged more or less chronologically starting at the front of the file. Some items of correspondence are followed by enclosures of an earlier date. A list of file contents and file notes are at the back of the file (folio 23).Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 23; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional incomplete foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-23; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Passports

Extent:

1 file (24 folios)

Rights:

Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000241.0x00001c_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x00001c_en
IOR/R/15/2/635

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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