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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [218r] (11/308)
The record is made up of 1 item (154 folios). It was created in 26 Dec 1915-12 Dec 1916. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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Shereef of Mecca has sent me further Arabic t<legrams
for transmission to Ibn Baud and Sheikhs of Koweit and
Mchammerah (styles and addresses as in my pr.vious telegram)
following is English rendering begins
"Since Despatch of ray congratulatory telegram re
garding your decision at recent meeting at Koweit I nave
learnt a letter I had previously despatched to you had
displeased you. I am at a loss to know in what manner,
and I rely on your wisdom and knowledge of our condition
and your personal dignity end nobility to remove all
misconceptions. Neither blame not insult could bo
attached to one of your dignity and importance; nor could
I with intention do anything so contrary to all Arab
manners and traditiona. If then through distance or
weakness of human nature the*, has been misconception at
a time when wo should direct our energies to the assertion
of our independence, I am the sufferer and the aggrieved
party.
You and I are friends and allies of the British
Government, the powerful friend of the Arabs, ana we
should unite and co-operate with > ach other to expel the
Turkish trickst rs, our personal enemies and tho snanic-s
of the truth, and to purge the Arab country Horn
vilencss
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Part 5 concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and, to a lesser extent, Britain's relations with the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]. It includes the following:
- a copy of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, dated 26 December 1915, plus a copy of the ratified treaty, dated 18 July 1918;
- reports of an agreement between Bin Saud and Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
- details of munitions that are to be given by the British to Bin Saud;
- translated copies of correspondence between the High Commissioner, Cairo, and the Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- discussion as to whether the British should press Bin Saud to take specific action to assist both the British and the recently deposed Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- details of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's meetings with Bin Saud.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (as both Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force D);
- Bin Saud;
- Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge, succeeded by Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain];
- High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon);
- Grand Sherif of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī];
- Foreign Office;
- Secretary to the 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. 's Political Department (Arthur Hirtzel).
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- File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud'
- Pages
- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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