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File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [424r] (535/840)
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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Sultan of Nejd and its dependencies, the wording of the
preamble being based on that of the Hadda Agreement,
3. The possibility of Ibn Saud re-opening the question
of the payment of a subsidy in the course of the negotiations
was considered. It was felt that the payment of a subsidy
was out of the question, and that this if pressed by Ibn
Saud should be resisted on the grounds that it would be liable,
to be misrepresented as an attempt on the part of Hit
Majesty’s Government to obtain undue control over the Holy
Places, and that the knowledge that Ibn Saud was in receipt
of a subsidy from non-Moslem power would greatly damage his
prestige with Moslem opinion throughout the world.
4. It was also thought probable that Ibn Saud would
raise the question of the purchase of war material in this
country. The present position was that in virtue of a kind
of self-denying ordinance Great Britain, France, Belgium and
Italy had undertaken not to permit the export of arms to the
States in Arabia,
The need for some such agreement was obvious when
active hostilities were in progress in the Hejaz and the
Yemen, but now that Ibn Saud had established a settled
administration in the Hejaz it was felt that this embargo
could not justifiably be maintained, provided that satis
factory
An East India Company trading post.
, guarantees that arms purchased would be used for
Governmental purposes only were forthcoming. In this
opinion the Conference were influenced by the fact that
if His Majesty’s Government were to refuse to allow Ibn
Saud to purchase arms in this country, he would have no
difficulty in obtaining them from Italy (which had not
strictly enforced the embargo agreement) or some other Power
and that if the arms held by Ibn Sa$d were of British
manufacture it would be much more easy for us to control his
supply
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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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- File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.'
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