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to tins, provided thcit the JMmister is allowed to ]ici\e ci liouse in JVleccR cmd an
assurance is given that he will be treated properly and not shadowed by spies,
as Dr. Naji-al-Assil complains he always wa^s when he went to Mecca.
7 As regards Transjordan-Nejd relations, the Iving said that the Anur
Feisal had undertaken to try to persuade his father to telegraph to His Majesty
requesting his mediation with a view to the conclusion of a good neighbourly
relations treaty between Transjordan and Nejd and the Hejaz on the lines of
that which had recently been concluded between Iraq and Nejd and the Hejaz.
The King seemed hopeful that King Ibn Saud would do this and said that in
that event he would go to Amman to persuade the Amir Abdullah to come into
line. .
8. His Majesty also revealed to me that he had learnt that the Amir was
far from pleased with Fuad Hamza who had been too self-assertive during their
tour in Europe. He thought that the latter would not long remain in power
after his return to Nejd.
9. In my own talks with the Amir I kept to general topics, but in conversa
tion with Fuad Hamza I gathered that he regarded the Ibn Rifada invasion
as a matter of second-rate importance and that he was convinced that His
Majesty's Government were doing everything that was possible to bring it to a
ignominious conclusion.
10. I enclose a copy of a telegram which I received from the Amir Feisal
after his departure from Bagdad.
11. I am sending a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Minister at
Jedda and to His Majesty's High Commissioner for Transjordan.
I have, &c.
F. H. HUMPHRYS,
High Commissioner for Iraq.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Translation of Telegram from the Amir Feisal to the British High
Commissioner, Bagdad.
Zuhair, July 11, 1932.
ON my departure from Iraq I consider it necessary that I should express
my deep gratitude for the "kindness shown by you during my stay in Bagdad.
I am glad to express my great pleasure for having become acquainted with
your Excellency. I bid you farewell in the hope that we will meet again.