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Coll 6/38 'Saudi-Arabia: Position and National Status of British subjects and protected persons.' [66r] (131/174)
The record is made up of 1 file (85 folios). It was created in 11 Apr 1931-13 Feb 1934. 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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■HM
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No. 261.
(T 8266/8045/378) JEBI)A .
Jane 21st, 1932.
Sir,
The Umm-al-Qura newspaper of June 10 announces the
intention of tne Eejazl Government of preparing a sort of
nominal census of the male population of the cities in this
country in order to combat the economic and other evils result
ing from the constant influx of foreigners of all nationalities
some of them undesirables. The announcement explains that the
sole object is that stated and assures the native population
that they need fear nothing in the nature of conscription or
capiuation tax. The matter has been referred to the Legislative
Assembly in order that the necessary regulations may be drawn up.
2. There are so many alien Moslems in this country, some
with and some without documentary evidence of foreign
nationality, that the proposed regulations might be made a
means of widespread oppression, but it will be time enough to
worry about them when, if ever, they are put into force. I may
say that, although a difficult intervening period might have
to be traversed, I should not be sorry to see in the final
result a considerable diminution of the semi-settled population
of various British origins in a country which has so little to
recommend it as a place of sojourn once a man has achieved the
object with which most come in the first instance, that of
performing the pilgrimage.
I have, etc.,
(Sgd.) Andrew Ryan.
His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of otate,
for Foreign Affairs.
I .
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This file, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, relates to the position and national status of British subjects and protected persons residing in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence includes discussion of the following:
- The treatment of foreign chauffeurs employed by the Hejazi Government.
- Details of a proposed census of all male inhabitants of Hejazi towns, and the possible implications for foreign residents.
- Reports that the authorities in Mecca are demanding that foreign residents produce documentary proof of their foreign nationality within fifteen days, with the alternatives being either to adopt Saudi nationality or to leave the country within three months.
- The status in Saudi Arabia of natives of the Hadramaut.
- Reports of British protected persons of African origin being pressured to leave the country within a period of ten days (or in certain cases, to enter military service).
- Reports that British Indian chauffeurs and mechanics working in Saudi Arabia have been informed that they cannot continue working in their occupations unless they adopt Saudi nationality, on the grounds that cars which are engaged for military purposes cannot be driven or maintained by foreigners.
The file features the following correspondents: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Saudi Arabia (Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd); officials of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.
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 (folio 2).
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- 1 file (85 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 87; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-86; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Coll 6/38 'Saudi-Arabia: Position and National Status of British subjects and protected persons.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:19v, 23r:27v, 30r:38v, 40r:58v, 61r:86v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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