Coll 6/56 'Saudi-Arabia: Prevention of use of Bahrein and Kuwait as bases for activities against Nejd (Ibn Hithlain)'

Content

This file relates to an Ajman chief named Khalid ibn Hithlain [Khālid bin Muḥammad bin Ḥithlayn, also transliterated as Khalid bin Hathlain in the file], who is suspected of planning anti-Saudi activities. The correspondence documents the efforts of the British authorities – at the Saudi Government's request – to monitor Khalid ibn Hithlain's movements and prevent him from using either Kuwait or Bahrain as a base from which to plan hostile actions. The file concludes with extracts from the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. 's intelligence summaries, which report Khalid ibn Hithlain's return to Saudi Arabia in January 1935, following a general political amnesty granted by the Saudi Government.

Notable correspondents include the following: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]; the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format

1 file (30 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 30; these numbers are printed and written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/12/2123

Former external reference(s)

Coll 6/56

History of this record

Date(s)

10 Jul 1933-31 Jul 1936 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Subversive activities

Places

BahrainKuwait

People & organisations

HM Ambassador to Saudi ArabiaHM Chargé d'Affaires to JeddahMinistry of Foreign AffairsSaudi Arabia, Minister for Foreign AffairsSecretary of State for the Colonies, United KingdomColonial OfficePolitical Resident, Persian GulfKuwait Political AgencyKhālid bin Muḥammad bin Ḥithlayn

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