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(D)— Treaties.
110. The only treaties concluded by Ibn Baud in 1934 were those shown in
the attached table, in which the numbering used in previous reports is
continued :—
No.
With.
Place and
Date of
Signature.
Nature and Subject.
Place and
Date of
Exchange
of Ratifi
cations.
Date of
Entry into
Force.
Remarks.
39
Multilateral
Cairo,
March 20,
1934
Seven Postal Con
ventions concluded
at the 10th Inter
national Postal
Congress
No details yet avail
able in Jedda, but
the Saudi ratifica
tion was provided
for as stated in
paragraph 109 (c).
40
Yemen
Taif,
May 20,
1934
Treaty of Islamic
Friendship and
Arab Brotherhood,
terminating the
state of war be
tween the parties,
determining fron
tiers and providing
for their future re
lations
Hodeida,
June 22,
1934
June 22,
1934, but
see next
column
With an Arbitration
Covenant and six
letters attached.
The treaty termi
nated the state of
war as from the
date of signature.
It abrogated the
earlier treaty of
December 25,1931,
No. 29, as to the
validity of which
doubt had existed.
111. The only other change in the treaty position of Saudi Arabia was that
ratifications of the treaty with Afghanistan signed at Jedda on the 5th May, 1932,
No. 35 in the Legation list, were exchanged at Mecca on the 1st April, 1934.
112. The amended note attached to the appendix to the annual report for
1932 requires fuller amendment as follows : “ Soviet Russia and the Netherlands
maintain accredited representatives at Jedda without having concluded formal
treaties with Ibn Saud. He has been recognised formally by at least two States,
Switzerland and Poland, which neither have treaties with him nor maintain
representatives. There may possibly be other cases in which such recognition
has had no important suite. In certain cases recognition may be inferred, in the
absence of treaties or the appointment of representatives, from other acts, e.g., the
nominal appointment of a Czechoslovakian consul (see paragraph 108) and the
despatch of an Ethiopian mission (see paragraph 99). Egypt has not so far
recognised Ibn Saud, but maintains a representative of consular status in Jedda. ”
III.— Internal Affairs.
General Situation.
113. It is as impossible, as usual, for lack of trustworthy information, to
give any coherent general account of the internal situation in Saudi Arabia in
1934. There were no spectacular developments except those in the immediate
neighbourhood of the Yemen frontier which preceded the war. No symptoms of
disaffection were reported from the towns. If there was discontent among the
tribes in Nejd or the Ilejaz, it neither manifested itself in open rebellion nor
prevented the King from levying forces sufficient to man the front during the
Saudi-Yemen war. Reference has been made in paragraph 2 to the view expressed
in Koweit in the autumn that Ibn Saud had lost prestige among his own people
owing to his failure to impose more drastic terms on the Imam. This theory
derived some support from the action of the paramount chief of the Rashaida
tribe, who had in June reverted from his allegiance to Ibn Saud to an older
allegiance to the Sheikh of Koweit. On the other hand, there were signs later that
the King’s policy of attracting erstwhile rebels back to their loyalty was
succeeding. The most notable case, perhaps, was that of Khalid-bin-Hithlain, one