ملف ٤٨٨\ ١٩٢٠ الجزء ٣ "الحجاز:- العلاقات بين الحكومة البريطانية والملك حسين. مسألة الإعانة المالية. مفاوضات لإبرام معاهدة." [ظ‎‎٤‎٦‎٣] (٩٤٠/٩٣١)

Mr. Lindsay agreed, but reminded the Committee that any such
issue from the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affibrl f ' • , Kmst
of Hedjaz affairs. He agreed that it was adyisable tiiat soml a^nl^K "uT
come t° as soon as possible with King Hussein, especially in vieof th f 1011 ' / )e
Ibn Sand was drawing his subsidy uninterruptedly. ^ 1 fact that
Sir Bertram Cubitt said that the War Office would sunnort ™
would ensure good and peac ful conditions for the pilgrimage. * ^ ^^sures that
It was generally agreed that the subsidy should be renewed as soon u i
and that a special envoy, s t nt from London, should be deputed to carry on the P ° SSlbIe ’
negotiations. p 10 Cdrr > 011 the necessary
— ^reaty 01 oevres, had recently been the snhiept t-i
conespondence between the Secretaries of Sta.e for Fore,on Affairs an^the
already mentioned. Mr. Churchill had been inclined to dr,,n ,1,, • 1 / ? Colollles
Treaty of Sevres, but Lord Curzon had inlaid tha any gantmu' temldt'c'^i.V ‘‘’'l
on the acceptance by King Hussein not onlv of tuJ ^ 1 nillst he made conditional
ratification h the Treaty "oAwd’le'rw^ S ^ A ^ t't
the Principal Allied Powers to dispose of the territories freed from the Turk’ 8 /
re^mmeudations made.'^ 1 * 10118 Sil ° Uld ^ S0 " e illt0 °' le ^ oue b y the Committee and
relating* to the'signatur^and^atificatio 16 7T? A ~n, o ther than those
be embodied in a treaty between His Mai, It ’ P t>r tleatle ®» mi g ht more properly
than defined as conffitLs unon whfci; J f ^ 8 GoVernment al > (1 King of the Hedjaz,
conditions upon which certain money payments were to be made.
the conditions if the^ were p^slntb^o'fom USSem be m . ore like l v to subscribe to
nature of a baro-ain Thp ' nn in such a form than if they were in the
and it was quite possible thaf 0 -^/ ar ^. ul< ? ut wo . u ^ carr y ver y little weight with him,
what was beincr offered to him ne ^° llltl0l,s ,1M gl 1 t break down if he considered that
Jt S onered to him was in any respect a bribe.
heaskedto drafra Cfof d troat t . i V7 lll ' lbea< | V i Sable that the Office should
meat and the Kintr of the H r ° 7 ? nter ?^ between His Majesty’s Govern-
should he simultaneous with hut 12 ’ t" V 18 ’* i le r ’r sum l lt '° 11 the subsidy payments
The conditions n7t fii ’ b 7 “7, made a formal condition of its signature
conditions put forward at Cairo were then severally discussed
1 ^‘^TrlaiT^Thl^ Versai,le * an d signs and ratifies the Turkish
disposal of the ° f ^ mandator 'J Principle, and the
Versailles. "With rc - ran 71,' 1 1 ll^* 'I ’ ^a.usRein should be asked to ratify the Treaty of
asked to sio-n a document in tl . lua '- v 0 Sevres it was felt that he could not well he
never likely to cmne 1 ' ?• framm g of he had taken no part, and which was
Versailles involved ,c'e P ZeeoMh m ,t8 P‘r nt for “V of the Treaty of
which Kinn-Hussein’s conci.it- e mai ' < j a t |ir y principle. Ihe other two points on
Principal Allied Powers to disnose l ' f ai5 f JeS1 ' able were i“' acceptance of the right of the
of their right to drslrihnte th P °f tl,e temtori « s from the Turks, and therefore
of the choice actually made p77‘“V A nTf ^““d^ 0 " 63 ’ alld f 6 ! acceptance
Mesopotamia and Paln^fin ] 7 i I llr J cl P a l Allied Powers, not only in the case of
the Treaty of Sevres would Zv & TZ ^ CaSe 0t ^ ria> ^igmature and ratification of*
not embodied in either trpat° 'k ^ u 0n , ^ L ’ aS t ^ e actL1 M allocation of the mandates was
Council at San Kemo in Aprif 1920 ^ beeU by the meetin » of tIie Su P reuie
Hussein to a wap [ t he 6 flct 1 o^ 11 1 e ^ h f 0Ugh t there wou]d be 110 difficulty in getting King
to Feisai that His Maipwttr’. n ^ b,ltl sn mandates, since an assurance had been given
of their mandate for Mesonof« m Vei nn ^[ lt WOul . d be P re pared to consider the modification
he was convinced tint 1 >p i i ' a ° 11 ^ comill g dito force of the Organic Law. But
and until the French o-nv U011 ( n . ev ?. r reco g'dse tiie French mandate over Syria unless
ratify the Treatv of sfvr* 3 T me 81 ^ assura n ce * Kven if he promised to sign and
Syria, which was not speckliy provideTforln thatS?" ^ KrW,Ch l0 ‘'