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File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [464r] (615/840)
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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and makes them suspect the intentions of His Majesty’s
Government. Moreover, Indian influence is present in
Arabia to some extent and the racial questions which have
arisen in Kenya Colony, South Africa and elsewhere are
commonly attributed to a policy instigated by the Colonial
Office.
4. There are strong arguments in favour of placing
the control of the relations with all those countries which
border the Red Sea in the hands of the Foreign Office. The
existence of an Arabian policy at all is, I imagine,
chiefly due to the necessity of safeguarding Imperial
communications with the dast, as represented by the Suez
Canal and the Red Sea from Port Said to Perim. The Arabian
countries on the eastern shores af the Red Sea are all
independent, are closely interconnected, and include the
Hejaz with its important problems connected with the
religious centre of Islam and the pilgrimage. Great
Britain’s relations with them should, therefore, be
regulated in accordance with a definite and comprehensive
policy, embracing iJgypt and the Sudan and designed to
secure British predominant influence along both sides of
the road to India and the eastern Colonies and Dominions.
There is the further point that a co-ordinating authority,
situated within the area concerned but sufficiently remote
from purely local influences, would be of service in
helping His Majesty’s Government to form a true appreciation
of the situation. Such an authority might be ^ound in the
person of the High Comuissioner in ^gypt, as was indeed
in practice the case in the days of the Agent and Consul
General in Cairo before the war.
5. On the other hand, what I may describe as the
routine questions of administration and iiploraacy which
arise between His Majesty’s Government and the independent
States
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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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- 157r:394v, 403r:576v
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