مجموعة ٦/ ١٩ "الجزيرة العربية: (المملكة العربية السعودية) التقرير السنوي لمملكة الحجاز ونجد." [ظ‎‎٩‎٥] (٥٤٠/١٩١)

122.
P) Treaties.
No.
I
43
45
46
47
Place and
With.
Place and
Date of
Date of
Date of
Nature and Subject.
Exchange
Entry into
Remarks.
Signature.
of Ratifi-
Force.
cations.
Iraq
Bagdad,
Treaty of Arab
Riyadh,
Nov. 13,
Article 6 of the
April 2,
Brotherhood and
Nov. 13,
1936
treaty provides
1936
Alliance
1936
that both parties
shall endeavour
to secure the
adhesion of the
Yemen to the
Iraq
Riyadh,
Etablissement
Nov. 16,
treaty
Nov. 16,
Convention con-
1936
Egypt
1936
Cairo,
cerning Residence,
Passports and
Laissez-passer
Treaty of Friendship
Cairo,
May 8,
Article 6 provides
May 7,
May 8,
1936
for early negotia-
1936
1936
tions for the
settlement of all
questions left
outstanding
Egypt
Cairo,
Exchanges of Notes
Nov. 18,
Nov. 18,
to complete the
1936
Great
1936
settlement of all
questions left out
standing in the
treaty
Tail and
Exchanges of Notes
Oct. 3,
Britain
Jedda,
by which each of
1936
Oct. 3,
the parties renoun-
1936
ces for a period of
7 years his right to
denounce the Treaty
of Jedda of the
20th May, 1927,
subject to specified
modifications of
certain provisions
of the treaty and
of letters annexed
thereto
III. —Internal Affairs.
General Situation.
123. Ibn Saud showed no lack of energy, either mental or physical,
throughout the year, except for a short period of indisposition in the summer,
when he abandoned his shooting expeditions for a time. He had several major
political questions to deal with, and he seems to have dealt with them personally
and with vigour. He found time and energy to go to Koweit at the beginning of
the year and to make a long tour of inspection in the north in the autumn.
Efforts seem to have been made to enhance the status of the heir apparent, e.g., by
providing him with a separate palace in Jedda when he came here with his father
after the pilgrimage. Tales of discords in the family harmony are frequently
heard, but little reliance can be placed on most of them. It seems certain that
when the King and the Amir Saud married the two grand-daughters of Nuri
Shalan of Syria, and the Amir got the plain one when he expected the beauty, he
was annoyed, but the common oriental method of healing such wounds seems to
have been adopted with success. The Amir Feisal is believed to be subject to some
extent to the tyranny of his new mother-in-law, Nura, the King’s sister, but to
have been rescued from that of his brother, the Amir Saud, by the orders of the