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Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–' [110r] (220/802)
The record is made up of 1 file (399 folios). It was created in 1 Jul 1931-31 Mar 1938. 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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145. It has now been arranged that the Koweit Government shall formulate
their own proposals for giving effect to the desiderata expressed by Fuad Bey
to Sir Andrew Ryan in November (paragraph 96 of the last report).
III. —Relations with Powers outside Arabia.
146. Various reasons prevented Fuad Bey and Sir Andrew Ryan from
resuming their official conversations (paragraphs 98 and 99 of the last report)
before Fuad Bey left for Cairo. A fresh start had to be made with Sheikh Yusuf
Yasm. Although he is notoriously a difficult negotiator, it is fair to say that
he showed much greater keenness to get on with the work than Fuad Bey had
done. A fresh series of official conversations began on the 22nd April and is
still continuing. I hey have related principally to the connected questions of
slavery and the prolongation of the Treaty of Jedda, but in the first conversation
Sir Andrew Ryan pressed Sheikh Yusuf strongly to produce an agreement which,
according to a statement made by Fuad Bey at Riyadh in November, was concluded
between Ibn Saud and the Sheikh of Qatar before the date of the Anglo-Qatar
treaty of 1916 and which Fuad Bey invoked in support of the Saudi claim to
the debel Vakhsh (paragraph 400 of the report for December). On the 28th
April Sir Andrew Ryan addressed a long personal letter to Sheikh Yusuf stating
u 6 ,~^ es ^ Proposals of His Majesty’s Government for a settlement regarding
the Transjordan—Nejd frontier, ihe position in regard to the Koweit blockade
question is mentioned in paragraph 145 above. Certain other matters have
been left m abeyance.
tt • The French Minister was absent most of the month, having left for
Hodeida in the Bougainville on the 17th April in order to complete his treaty
negotiations at Sana.
Italian Charge d’Affaires at last returned to Jedda on the 16th
April, i he Odello ladies had left on the previous day and M. Persico now speaks
freely of the difficulties which Odello created for him before they both left in
January. He had arranged in Rome that Odello should not again get a visa
or Jedda, but there is no confirmation of reports that Odello has been run in at
home on charges of peculation. M. Persico’s relations with the Saudi Govern-
ment appear to be friendly.
149. The horses for the Queen of the Netherlands (paragraph 102 of the
last report) sailed m the same ship as Fuad Bey on the 14th April. Opinions varv
greatly as to their quality. The Dutch Charg 6 left three days later.
150. On the 8 th April Fuad Bey informed Sir Andrew Ryan privately
tnat, as a result of telegrams between Cairo and Mecca, negotiations for a settle-
ment of all outstanding questions between Saudi Arabia and Egypt were about
P., 6 - . apparently sudden development was made public on the
10 th April and Fuad Bey, with a small staff, left for Cairo on the 14th April
there appears to be no longer any obstacle to the recognition of Ibn Saud by
the King of Egypt and it seems probable that this may be accorded, whether
the treaty negotiations succeed or fail. 1 hese appear to be proceeding satis-
lactonly but the vexed question of the Sacred Caravan presents difficulty and
judging by a recent observation by Sheikh Yusuf Yasin to Sir Andrew Ryan it
may prove to be an even greater difficulty than would appear from telegrams from
His Majesty s High Commissioner in Cairo to the Foreign Office. Nevertheless
the Saudi Government are now extremely eager for a complete settlement with
gypt- Ihe implications of this attitude are glanced at in paragraph 143
151. The news of King Fuad’s death on the 28th April created little
apparent emotion in the Hejaz, but the Amir Feisal telegraphed condolences
to the. Prime Minister of Egypt, and Sheikh Yusuf was one of the first callers
at the Egyptian consulate in Jedda.
152. The ^audi Minister in London was among the representatives
of States, not members of the League of Nations, to whom the Foreign Office
communicated early in April the recent London Naval Treaty The Saudi
Government might take the opportunity of drawing attention to their admirable
record as regards the limitation, both quantitative and qualitative of naval
armaments. ’
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This file consists almost entirely of copies (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) of printed reports sent either by the His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard), or, in the Minister's absence, by His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Most of the reports cover a two-month period and are prefaced by a table of contents. The reports discuss a number of matters relating to the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), including internal affairs, frontier questions, foreign relations, the Hajj, and slavery.
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.
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- 1 file (399 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 400; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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 leather cover wraps around the documents; the back of the cover has not been foliated.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- front, front-i, 2r:47r, 48r, 49r:61r, 62r:89r, 91r:334r, 336r:398v, 400r:400v, back
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