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File 3665/1924 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- situation 1924. H.M.Govt’s policy of complete neutrality regarding the future of the Holy Cities. Question of the recruitment of troops in the Aden Protectorate on behalf of the Emir Ali.’ [47r] (87/117)
The record is made up of 1 item (57 folios). It was created in 15 Oct 1924-26 May 1925. 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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President of oapreme religious court in Egypt, a sound
and influential man, has expressed to me confidentially his
view that solution of Hedjas difficulties is to be found
in putting holy places and surrounding territory under
authority of a council representative of Moslem countries
exercised through a governor appointed by council. Member
ship of council to be roughly proportioned to population
of countries represented.
He shares contempt of King Hussein and Ali and dis
trust of Wahabis, which is common in Egypt, and natural
i.nslem desire for peace and security in Hedjas.
He is reluctant to attempt to move an initiative
from Egypt unless he has reason to think proposal on
above lines would find favour elsewhere especially in
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If such e proposal would not, be contrary to policy of
Ms Lajesty's Government would It be possible to discover
whether thoughts of Moslem leaders in India are turning
or ready to turn in the same direction.
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Correspondence concerning the British Government’s policy of neutrality in response to the invasion of the Hejaz by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the rule of the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The correspondence covers: responses to the invasion by the Muslim League of Bombay [Mumbai], the Khalifat Committee and its leader, Maulana Shaukat Ali, and the President of the Supreme Religious Court in Egypt; the question of the fate of Islam’s holy cities; reports of attempts by the King of Hejaz, ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, to recruit troops in the Aden Protectorate; the British Government’s disapproval of King Ali’s attempts to recruit troops in a British territory; the enlistment of Palestinians, Trans Jordanians and Egyptians in to the Hejaz army.
The principal correspondents are: the Home Department of the Government of India; the Foreign Office; the British Consul at Jeddah, Reader William Bullard.
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