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File 87/1926 Pt 1 'Arabia: Bin Saud; Title; Recognition as King of the Hedjaz' [126v] (246/306)
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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I have done everything I can for the sake of purifying these holy places until the
Almighty God has graciously granted success, conquest of the country and peace.
My determination since I began the work in this country was to follow the
decisions the Moslem world (the Hejaz being part of same) will give with regard to the
future of such holy country.
I have already on more than one occasion circulated an invitation to the Moslems
in general, asking them to hold a Moslem conference to decide what they think best
regarding the future of the Hejaz.
I have again made a general and private call and sent a letter to the Moslem
Governments and nations on 10.4.1344. That letter has been published in all the
newspapers of the world.
It is now more than two months since the date of that letter and I have not
received a reply from anybody except the Caliphate Society in India. For they, may
God bless them, have and are doing all they can for the comfort and happiness of the
Hejaz.
When the Hejaz question was ended in this manner, for which we thank God, the
Hejaz people came to me in multitudes and separately asking me to grant themthe
freedom I had promised them, namely, to decide their own future, and, owing to their
repeated requests, I granted them the freedom to decide what they like regarding their
country, as the Moslem world had remained silent about such an important matter.
Caring only for the good and welfare of the people as far as I can, I pray for
success only from God, on whom I rely and to whom I go back.
ABDUL AZIZ-BIN-ABDUL
R A H MAN - AL- FEIS AL-AL-S AUD.
22.6.1344.
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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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