File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [‎359v] (406/840)

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determined” should be omitted.
It occurs to the Secretary
of State for India that the
determination of the Eastern limits
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of the territories of Nejd might be
a less difficult task and might be -
am even more effective,and possibly
not less easily attainable,means of
preventing the undesirable spread
of Wahabi aggression eastwards than
the inclusion in thetevised treaty
of the article suggested in the
preceding paragraph. It mil be within
Mr. Amerv's recollection (vide the
j section on Qatar in the enclosed
precis) that in the course of
« . .
negotiations with the Turkish
(government in 1913 the eastern boundar
of the Sanjaft of Nejd was fixed as
y
a line (the "blue” line of the
agreement) running due south from
Salwah Bay to the great desert of
Huba'el Khali. It appears from
P.731/25
„ the despatch forming enclosureC
in ColontlPrideaux* s despatch No. 13
of the 9th June (enclosure in
your letter of the 24th July C.13401)
P.2433/26
that in 1922 Sir P.2. Cox made useful
( On another file.)
reference to that line as an argument
for Ion Baud's abstention from
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interference in Qatar, immediately
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to the East of it. Colonel
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Prideaux' statement that on that
occasion the Sultan of Nejd actually
accepted that line as his Eastern