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File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [400v] (488/840)
The record is made up of 1 item (421 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1925-14 Dec 1926. It was written in English. 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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Correspondence relating to the Bahia Agreement.
Memorandum
Presented by His Highness the Sultan of Ncjd after the sixth
meeting to Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.B.E., etc., His Britannic Majesty^
Commissioner and Plenipotentiary.
Translation.
1st Rabi‘ Thani 1344
(19th October, 1925).
I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that the Government
of Nejd are still of opinion that it is necessary to examine the pos
sibility of extraditing - criminals, in the hope of ensuring peace on the
frontier and of preventing all disturbers of the peace effectively. My
insistence in this matter is due to the particular experience I have, and
to my knowledge of desert conditions. My first object is to prevent
any rivalry or friction from arising between the two Governments,
and in this I am actuated by three main motives :—
(a) religion and honour, which compel us to act truthfully
and in keeping with our pledges;
(b) our special ties of friendship with His Majesty’s Govern
ment, which make it incumbent upon us to take a far-sighted
view ;
(c) our desire to live in peace, quiet and amity with our
neighbours the State of ‘Iraq.
2. I am of opinion that the Agreement which you presented for
discussion this morning, although it may achieve some of the purposes
for which we strive, does yet leave the door open to a great number
of troublesome incidents of a kind of which we have had cause to
complain in the past. In particular, I have submitted to you the
following incidents as being of the kind which habitually occur in life
in the desert :—
(a) what should the attitude of the Nejd Government be if an
‘Iraqi tribe, having committed a reprehensible crime involving
killing and plunder, were to take refuge in Nejd ; and what would
the same Government’s attitude be if that refugee tribe were to
commit the same crime, notwithstanding guarantees being taken
from it;
(b) what should the attitude of each of the Governments of
‘Iraq and of Nejd be if a Nejd tribe, having been punished by the
Nejd Government for a raid into ‘Iraq, were to take refuge into
Iraq and then to raid Nejd from ‘Iraq, as was done by those
tribes who had taken refuge with Nejd and then gone over to
Iraq, after the well-known incidents connected with Yusuf
Sa‘dun ?
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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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