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Section 1.
No. 1
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston to Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence,
Sir, Foreign Office, July 7, 1921.
I TRANSMIT to you herewith a special full power under the Royal Sign Manual
and Signet, authorising and empowering you to negotiate and conclude, with such
Minister or Ministers as may be vested with similar power and authority on the part
of His Majesty the King of the Hejaz, a treaty between the United Kingdom and
the Kingdom of the Hejaz, for the settlement of matters now under discussion
between the two countries.
2. A draft of the treaty which it is desired to conclude with King Hussein is
enclosed herein, and I have to request you to use your best endeavours to induce
His Majesty to agree to it. You should refer to me for instructions, should King
Hussein insist, in the course of negotiations, upon introducing in this draft any
modifications of substance. You should also report from time to time the state of your
negotiations.
3. The wording of articles 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 and 15 of the enclosed draft differs
somewhat from the wording of these articles in the draft of the treaty as despatched
to His Majesty’s High Commissioner at Cairo for translation into Arabic, to which
draft articles 17, 18 and 19 of the present draft have also since been added. The
observations of the Government of India on some of these articles have been invited
by the Secretary of State for India. Further instructions will be sent to you by
telegraph should these observations, when received, necessitate any modification of
the draft treaty.
4. I also transmit to you, for your information, copies of the English versions
of the treaties with Idrisi Seyyid and Ibn Saud. # The Government of India have been
asked by telegraph to send to you direct, c/o High Commission, Cairo, copies of the
Arabic version.
5. Copies of this letter and of the draft treaty in its present form are being sent
to the Colonial Office. India Office, Admiralty, Board of Trade and Ministry of Health,
and to His Majesty’s representatives at Cairo, Constantinople and Jeddah.
I am, <fec.
CURZON OF KEDLESTON.
Enclosure in No. 1.
of d Declaration to he signed by His Majesty King Hussein simultaneously with
the Conclusion of a Treaty between him and His Majesty s Government.
HIS Majesty King Hussein of the Hejaz, recognising that the progress and
prosperity of the mandated countries of the Middle East can best be secured with the
su Pport and assistance of Great Britain and France, through wh ose he_lp in the late
War the Arabs were enabled to ij hi*ktho Tupkinli y^lr^/and mindful of the
^entices made by those Powers in the cause of Arab freedom, hereby declares that he
^ at no time take any action calculated to embarrass Great Britain or France in the
as . ^Husted to them under the Covenant of the League of Nations of ad\ ising and
ss!sting the populations of Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria until such time as they
are ^le to stand alone. : r . "UTIP “I ^ .
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Draft of Proposed Treaty between the United Kingdom and the Hejaz.
In the Name of God the Merciful the Compassionate.
of ,, H « Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and
Hu!. 6 ® r ] tish dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty King
' e >h of the Hejaz on behalf of Themselves, Their hens and successoryinspired with
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