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File 87/1926 Pt 1 'Arabia: Bin Saud; Title; Recognition as King of the Hedjaz' [87r] (167/306)
The record is made up of 1 item (152 folios). It was created in 11 Jan 1926-12 Jan 1928. It was written in English and French. 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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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
no. E 1324/7/91.
and address—
t not to any person by name,
but to—
“ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
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Foreign Office.
S.Vi.l.
1st March 1926.
Sir; -
I am directed hy Secretary Sir Austen r
Chamberlain to aclmowledge.the receipt of your letter
No.P.622 of February 23rd, relative to his proposal
that His Majesty 1 s Government should recognise Ibn
Saud as King of the Hejaz.
2. Sir Austen Chamberlain has given sympathetic
consideration to the suggestion in paragraph 3 of your
letter that recourse should not be had to a formal act
of recognition, but that in future Ibn Saud should be
addressed as ,T His Majesty The Hing of the Hejaz ,T . He
feels, however, that to act in this manner might
seriously diminish, if not indeed entirely dispel, the
satisfaction which Ibn Saud will derive from the
recognition of his new position by His Majesty 1 s
Government. He might argue that all that had been done
was that His Majesty’s Government had grudgingly decided
to aclmowledge the existing facts as regards the Hejaz.
The Secretary of State is-, on the contrary, of opinion
that it is desirable that His Majesty’s Government should
derive all possible credit from the act of recognition.
Moreover, the French Ambassador recently made enquiries
regarding the attitude of His Majesty’s Government towards
the question of recognising Ibn Saud as Xfng of the Hejaz.
It
2 j MAR 1^6
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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The papers cover the election of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] as king in 1926, his assumption of the title of King of the Hedjaz and Sultan of Nejd and its dependencies, his de jure recognition by HM Government and others, the delay on the part of the Egyptian Government in recognising Ibn Saud's position as king, the British attitude towards the Nejd-Hedjaz conflict, salutes to the Hedjaz flag, and the breakdown of negotiations for the recognition of Ibn Saud by the Italian Government. The papers also cover Ibn Saud's proposal to send a delegate to the International Sanitary Conference in 1926, and to become signatory of the International Sanitary Convention.
The principal correspondents are the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, HM Consul at Jeddah, and the Viceroy.
There are newspapers cuttings from Forward and The Times ;and a letter in French, from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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