File 87/1926 Pt 1 'Arabia: Bin Saud; Title; Recognition as King of the Hedjaz' [115r] (223/306)
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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secretly; he is said to be a friend of LtiLUBOy and other
extremists, a fact Which is known to A.lUDajrd and Ghdlam
Farid Malik (of Southfields )»
2 . 'Thebe is a taovement on foot to arrange for a new
meeting place for the British Muslim Society* since many
people will not go to ill dampden Hill Hoad* and those who
run the Society are anxious that all shades of Moslem opinion
should repreSehtfed; it is Understood that the Southfields
Ahmadiyas will join the Society if the meeting place is
changed,
4 . Kemal-ud-Din left London on the 5th February for
South Africa. Before leaving he imparted to a correspondent
his ideas for founding a new Order here on Sufi lines; this
is to be open to all believers in Ono God, but members need
not necessarily be Moslems* He hopes to open lodges in
Paris, London, Berlin and various American cities, also in
Malay, South Africa and India. The idea was suggested to
him in Egypt.
5. In paragraph 5 of my note of this series dated
3.12.25, mention was made of the fact that the Biff Oommittee
was getting in touch with organisations in America. Infor
mation has now beon received, through Captain Gordon Canning,
that Mr Herbert Myrick, a well known American, is forming a
Biff Committee; nothing more than this is known, and we
have no record of Mr Myrick.
Arthur Field was known to be anxious to got a footing
for tho Committoe in Scotland, and ho appears to have arran
ged with a certain Thomas Linden of 113 Bernard Street,
Glasgow (of whom we have no record - he is a poor man, with
an income of £2 a week) to work for him. This man wrote to
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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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