"F.85 ملف 82/27/IV نفط قطر" [و‎‎١‎٦‎٢] (٤٢٢/٣٣٢)

a.
aonsidercd it an imp^tant point and tn
Ildiwal^ settlements east of Blue i^ine. I was
careful nor to suggs st any probable weakening by
His Maj esty's Government in their views of legal
position. I purposely let fall words ^British
sphere^ at intervals in order to oonteract any
idea that matter waw merely one of frontiers
between Saudi Arabia and Shaikh of -^atar etc.,
5 # jtoad attempted especially in later
stages of conversation to be^little whole question
as relating to a few miles^of desert 11 ^ I
pointed out that area between Anglos-Turkish line
ard limits a± claimed in his note was enormous.
He thereupon took annex C to Anglo?Turkish Convention
Of 1914 and auggested possibility of line due south
from Karawer ( which he seemed to think was on base
line of ^tar peninsular) and north eastern end of
Hadravteaut bending across to same western terminal
as violet line.
jfuad complained that ^is majesty s
Government had given ibn Saud no indication in 1916
that they regarded Blue Line as operative and main-
-tained that language of treaty of that year justi-
-fled King's present pretensions. I suggested that
areas left for future determinition might well have
been conceived as not in any case extending beyond
Anglo-Turkish lines. I referred to possible effect
of Treajty of Jedda without however developing my
argument in detail. I " would have been roughly
that treaty stabilised Saud's ^ole positxon vxs
^ Ti s -is Majesty's Government including his posxtxon
. j'uad complained
as ruler of succession state).
that. • •