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File 87/1926 Pt 1 'Arabia: Bin Saud; Title; Recognition as King of the Hedjaz' [114r] (221/306)
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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scheme for- the League of Moslem Nations to i'ethi hey in
Paris. From the latter my correspondent gathered that
Turkey i 3 anxious to come to terras with Britain* so as to
have a breathing space in which to organise this new League,
which is to be a Moslem counterpart to the League of Nations.
Pethi Bey said that he was anxious to discuss with an
English Moslem the question of the new League s relations
with India, with Indians in the British Colonies, and with
the Moslems of French northern Africa. It appears that
Fethi Bey still has dreams of the old Pan-Turanian Movement,
and is anxious to work with the co-operation of Afghanistan,
2, A constant visitor at the Ahmadiya House at
Southfields informed me that a Russian Moslem had been there
recently, with a view to learning the Ahmadiya ways. It
is understood that the leader of the Sect is anxious to get
some of his followers into Russia, to get into personal
touch with Moslems there,
Abdur Rahim Lard, the Imam of the Southfields Mosque,
was in Germany during the latter part of January, and visi
ted Berlin, Hamburg, and afterwards Amsterdam; he has now.
returned to London, but information as to the events of hisi
journey has not yet been received. It is understood, how
ever, that Fazl Karim Khan, the Imam of the Berlin Mosque
wishes to make his peace with Qadian, though he will do It
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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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