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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.’ [273r] (83/182)
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nciosure -a. X in Jeddah despatch Bo* T4 dated
August 13th, 1925* _
ranslation of letter from Bin Baud to.the Acting
British Agent and Consul, Jeddah, Ho* 178, dated
loth Hoharreoi, 1344 (August 9th, 1925).
After respects*
Tou are quite aware of the difficulties that were
Brought en the Hejag and its people during the last few
peart, as resulting from the successive wars and ths
oppression of previous rulers, and that rights of
humanity compel us to extend help as far as possible
to these miserable people*
The people of the Hojaz have applied to us to allow
some of them to go to Kgypt, India and the l ast Indies
so that they may ralso charitable funds for the poor
natives and apply for the charities designed for them
in the above countries.
As our Government is not willing to follow the
policy of the previous government in putting obstacles in
the way of benefactors and pilgrims* we wish to send, on
our behalf, some of our best people whom we rely upon to
prevent any maladministration or transaction which is
likely to take plaoe, and to accomplish the following :*
1. To expound our religious affairs and make clear our
good intentions towards this country as regards comfort
and safety of the roads*
2* Te contradict the lies and false rumours propagated
by our enemies*
Knowing that His Majesty’s Government care for the
welfare of the Holy Band which is visited by an enormous
number of their nationals, inasmuch a$ they wish, tnat their
nationals
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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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- 273r:275v
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- Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal (xx Ibn Saud)
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