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File 3665/1924 Pt 4 ‘Arabia:- Nejd-Hedjaz Situation. Attitude of Moslem world. Hedjaz deputation to India. Nejd deputation to India.’ [269r] (75/182)
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In any further communication
^ on this subject, please quote
No. e 5552/10/91.
and address—
not to any person by name.
Foreign Office.
but to—
“ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
S.W.l
18th September 1925
Sir,
With reference to your letter ITo P 2984 of September-]^
4th, relative to the proposed despatch of delegates
to India by the Sultan of ITejd, I am directed by Mr.
Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you the accompanying
copy of a telegram from the Acting British Agent and
Consul at Jeddah, giving the further particulars asked
for in your letter.
2. It seems probable that Hafiz Wahba, who is
mentioned in this telegram, is identical with the Mullah
Hafiz, who attended the Koweit conference in 1924 as one
of Ibn Saud* s delegates. A full account of the past
history of this individual was given in enclosure £
in Colonial Office letter Ho. 4322/24 of February 13th
Pa**
1?24
I am
Sir,
Your obedient Servant
The Under Secretary of State,
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.
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Correspondence relating to a proposal by the Ruler of Iraq, King Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], to organise a conference of rulers from the Islamic world, in order to settle the future administration of Islam’s holy cities. The proposal was in response to the invasion of Hejaz by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the Sultan of Najd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The correspondence covers: the British Government’s disapproval of King Feisal’s plan; reports on Muslim opinion in Morocco over the deposition of King Hussein [Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]; the despatch of a Hejaz Government delegation to India; the proposed visit of a Wahabi (or Najd) delegation to India, the East Indies, and Egypt.
The item’s principal correspondents include: the High Commissioner of Iraq, Henry Robert Conway Dobbs; the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery; the Acting British Consul at Jeddah, S R Jordan; the Foreign Office; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India.
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