ملف ١٩٢٦/٨٧ الجزء ٢ "الجزيرة العربية: ابن سعود: العلاقات مع الحكومة البريطانية. مراجعة المعاهدة." [و‎‎٢‎٥‎٧] (٨٤٠/٢٠١)

obligation to protect the territories in question, an
obligation which His Majesty's Government might find it
extremely difficult to implement in the not improbable
event of Ibn 3aud endeavouring to extend his influence
eastwards by absorbing some of toe Persian Oulf
principalities. This objection had been communicated
to the Government of India, who had replied, pointing
out that any undertaking given by Ibn 3aud in the Treaty
could not have the effect of increasing His Majesty's
Government's treaty commitments towards the Persian Gulf
Sheikhs, and might have a restraining effect upon him.
The Government of India felt that, ii His Majesty's
Government were to acquiesce in the omission of this
Article from the new treaty, Ibn baud might assume irora
this that they no longer considered tiBmselves
committed to protect tije territories in question and
might thus be encouraged to acts 01 aggression. After
further discussion it was agreed to recommend that an
article or the lines of Article 6 of the 1915 treaty,
omitting the last sentence, should, if possible, be
embodied in the treat 7 .
6. The Conference Uen considered the draft
Protocol defining the Boundary between the liejaz and
Trans-Jordan. A suggestion made by the Officer
Administering the Government of Palestine that the
present de facto frontier should be pushed further south
in order to conform with certain well defined natural
features was examined. The view of the Conference was
tnat it would be unwise to mal^e any such proposal to
Ibn Baud, wno had repeatedly been informed what His
Majesty’s