"ملفات 61/12 و 61/16 (D 80) معاهدة بين بان سعود والحكومة البريطانية" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٩] (٤٠٨/٢٦٤)

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The vhai man said that the question was one involving
hi-h political consider at lone, ^hich it would presumably be
for the Cabinet to decide. So far as the Conference was
concerned, he thou'ht that the only course or^en to them waa
to nroceed on the aseumotion that the ne otiations ^ere to
be continued, end to endeavour to frame recomniendations as
to the lines m which they could be pursued with the beet
t)roer>ect of sttccees.
The Foreign Office representatives laid before the
Conference a paper containing, in parallel colunms (1) the
text of a reviced draft treaty with Ibn Saud prepared in
the Colonial Office on the basis of the recoiKraendations of
the meetings of the 13th and 19th of January, and (2) an
altem tive draft Treaty prepared by 1 x. Jordan, also based
on the ^iscus ^ionB at the previous meeting, but framed on
lines which, • in the author 's opinion, Ibn ^iaud mi; ht be
prepared to acceot.
The discutssion which is suninarised below, proceeded
on the basis of this paner*
^jiie Chairnism raised the question of the ^itl*? of
Ibn t>aud and the prepo«e< substituti n of "Kin of be
Heja* and Mejd and their defendencie8 ,, for Ki ot :n«
Hejaz and oulten of !4ejd and its defendencif s".
out that, so far as he knew, there were no ' at ir ;
to the Hijax unless Asir could be so describe s I
proposed to tell the Italians that we intended to ?
recognition of the Ibn ^aud-Idrisi pact, by which ib uaud
had assumed the suzerainty of Asir. Was there any risi that,
if we adopted the revised fomxla in our traaty with Ibn
Saud, we might be held ir>SQ facto to have reco^is -d the
position