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File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [375r] (437/840)
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3 7< 2
Draft Paper.
Department.
The Under Secretary of
State,
Colonial Office.
1139r 5000 4/26
2 g JUL1928
I am directed by the
Secretary of State for India to
acknowledge the receipt of your
letter No. C. 13136/26, dated the 15th
July, regarding the proposed
revision of the treaty with Ibn Saud,
and to invite attention in connexion
therewith to the telegram from the
Government of India No. 1213 S.
dated the 12th July, a copy of which
was forwarded to your Department on
the 15th July (a further copy is
enclosed for convenience of reference),.
The Earl of Birkenhead
agrees generally with the views
expressed by the Government of India,
and in particular feels strorgly the
desirability of proceeding cautiously
for the present in regard to the
establishment of any new relations
with Ibn Saud. His Lordship assumes
that it will probably be desired to
have the preliminary draft treaty
enclosed in your letter further dis
cussed in due course, in the light of
the Government of India 1 s telegram
and of any other comments, by an
inter-Departmental conference, and he
does not therefore propose to deal
in this letter with all points of
detail. I am however to say that
LI t n
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The papers cover the recognition of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] as King of the Hedjaz and Sultan of Nejd and its dependencies by foreign countries, and also contain:
- Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, KBE, CB, CMG, on his Mission to negotiate certain Agreements with the Sultan of Nejd, and Instruction issued to him in regard to his Mission , 1926 (ff 516-560)
- Negotiations for revision of the 1916 Treaty with Ibn Saud
- A conference held at the Colonial Office to discuss HM Government's relations with Ibn Saud, 1926
- Relations between Ibn Saud and Persia
- Agreement with the Sultan of Nejd regarding certain questions relating to the Nejd-Trans-Jordan and Nejd-Iraq frontiers , 1925 (ff 395-402)
- The Hejaz- Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan border.
The principal correspondents are the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the 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. , the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, HM Consul at Jeddah, and the Viceroy.
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