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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.’ [316v] (170/182)
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prepared to make peace with the Hejaz while any of ex-King
Hussein’s family remained within its territories,
2, I am to suggest for the consideration of Lord
Olivier that air henry Dobbs might be instructed to inform
King Feisal that, in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government,
the despatch of such telegrams would be ill-advised, since,
in view of the marked hostility to ex-King Hussein’s family
as evinced in Ibn Baud’s message to the people of Jeddah, any
suggestion emanating from a member of that family would be
unlikely to be favourably received; and to represent to King
Feisal that there would be a greater probability of Ibn Baud
accepting the proposal for the assembly of a general Islamic
Conference, if this suggestion were to be put forward by some
person or body not intimately connected with the Hashimite
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family. It might be added, for the information of Sir Henry
Dobbs, that if, upon receipt of this advice, King Feisal
nevertheless persists in his original intention, His Majesty’s
Government would not raise any objeetion to his despatching
telegrams to the persons named in the High Commissioner’s
telegram, provided that it was made clear that His Majesty’s
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Government in no way identified themselves with his action.
3. I am to request that Mr. Thomas may be informed at
an
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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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- 232r:272v, 276r:280v, 281v:300v, 302r:322v
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