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2. Would you give us any available information about
character, etc., of this person ? aDout
the antecedents,
Enclosure 1 to Serial No. (3).
Leiikr from the British Embassy, Baghdad, to the Foreign
1NO. J8|l|d3, DATED THE 5 th JANUARY 1933.
Office,
f re M n R reas ? n su PP° se that he is likely to be anti-English Members
Enclosure 2 to Serial No. (3).
Muwaffaq al ’Alusi.
\tiansferred to the post of Director in the Miniatr-ir tti
isssifsas - ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية “■* ~ ui1 ° f ■ i ”™ 1 “*
Autumn of^ 1932 and taking service under Ibn Sa hid as Legal Adviser^n the
risiKts jk*
one educated m the principles of European law. 7 epugnant to
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(Recetved on nth March 1933 with Political Secretary’s letter No. S, dated
23rd February 1933.)
Enclosure in Foreign Office, covering letter No. E.-759|759|25, dated February
IGtli* 1D33.
Letter f6om H. M.’s Minister, Jedda, to the Foreign Office, No 15 (1161214)
DATED THE 16TH FEBRUARY 1933.
Chancery N^llmllMlpI *f“-° fficial ™* e ^ the Eastern Department to my
m! Wfa 7 7vi\ ldJ8 l 164 |25 Of November 25, I have the honour to state that
Mr Hope-Gill was unable to extract any information from the so-called
• sistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs here re^ardinsr the dite
of exchange of ratifications and entry into form of the Treaty of December 1931
between Ibn Sa’ud and the Imam Yahya, I therefore wrote personally to Fuad
Bey Hamza on January 1, explaining that the information was needed for purelv
documentary purposes. When I reminded Fuad Bey of mv letter in convei>sa
tion on January 9, he replied that the ratification had been effected bv an
Sg tLm^r S Biyadh ateS ° f ^ Were n0t “ his P° ssessi -’ bat —
^ > ®^ a ^ 1 ^ 1 R^™y > hiQniiy 1 was
di tated by a purely general interest in the relations between two Inorlarehs
T ™, /w Ma ' 1 . es - t y s fipnernment liked to see on good terms with each other
l S3 ' d ‘ hat n m >: ^? S a llttIe c0 ? fused - ]t had been announced in the
Umm-al-Qura that the Kmg was sending a representative to San’a (This
announcement was made in the issue of November 4. under the heading “ New
endeavours of IDs Majesty the King for the union of Arabs. Negotiations with
I emen. ) Subsequently an impression had grown up that this referred to the
despatch of Sheykh Hamad Suleyman and Khalid Bey al Qarqani, and that they
had been held up by the revolt m ’Asfr.
3. Fuad Bey said there had been no question of sending Sheykh Hamad and
hiscompamon to San a Their destination had always been Asfr, where it was
at first intended that they should investigate the situation and where they
remained after the outbreak of the revolt. They were now with the punitive