ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٦ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون. قسم الخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٥‎٤‎٢] (٨١٨/٥١٩)

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yet leave the door open to a great number of troublesome incidents of a kind of
which we have had cause to complain in the past. In particular, I have submitted
to you the following incidents as being of the kind which habitually occur in life
in the desert:—
(а) what should the attitude of the Nejd Government be if an ’Iraqi, tribe
having committed a reprehensible crime involving killing and plunder,
were to take refuge in Nejd ; and what would the same Government s
attitude be if that regugee tribe were to commit the same crime,
notwithstanding guarantees being taken from it;
(б) what should the attitude of each of the Governments of Iraq and of
Nejd be if a Nejd tribe, having been punished by the Nejd Govern
ment for a raid into ’Iraq, were to take refuge into Iraq and then to
raid Nejd from ’Iraq, as w T as done by those tribes who had taken re
fuge with Nejd and then gone over to Iraq, after the well-known
incidents connected with Yusuf Sa dun ?
I beg that you will examine these questions carefully, After considerable
experience, I see no effective way of circumventing the trouble other than that
Nejd and ’Iraq should both admit the principle of the surrender of criminals, and
that criminals having perpetrated a crime in their country should be prevented
from seeking refuge into the other country. Measures based on any other prin
ciple would not, in my opinion, shut the door on the dissensions of which we all
complain ; and I ask that this statement of mine should be put on record so that
it may be referred to in the future, and so as to set my conscience at rest in case
such incidents, of the kind which we deplore and would prevent with all our e orts,
were to recur.
Usual respects,
■ ’Abdu’l-’Aziz ibn Abdu’r-Rahman ibn Sa’ud.
Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.B.E., etc., His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Pie^
nipotentiary, to His Highness 'Abdul-' Aziz ibn ' Abdu'r-Rahman a - aisa
Al Sa’ud, Sultan of Nejd and its Dependencies.
Bahra Camp,
20th October 1925.
Highness,
ave the honour to acknowledge recc.pt of Yonr Highness
Raw Thani (19th October 1925) and I note that Your H.ghness .8 of op.
hat no agreement is likely to establish security on t e ron le . a ,
0 raiding which is not based on the principle that e.ther Government at
quest of the other Government should return, if necessary >
or portions of tribes which may cross over into if? terf .op