"ملف ٢٢\٢٣ II مؤتمر الكويت ١٩٢٤" [و‎‎١‎٢] (٥٤٤/٢٣)

1* Uw of life pui*i» efeion oi <• ai » irh'.n, I cannot claim tlMil
ny re 1 progress has been wade towards reconciling Lht yiewa of Uie
t^c partiee bat, betwe n tixt. shadowy cl imi put forward by both partis
larg^ qucfei.iom* of policy aocn o emtrg^. ran# Jordania appear* to
regard iu a* vi. 1 that Uu.y should iu yc through connection with Iraq,
which iiejd it dotcrrfiined o deny «o them, jd, on the other ha.nd,
eet.Rit determined to join hands with the rench in ' reneh ' yria,
a1 though,when i hinted to the Ireeidcnt oi the tftjd delcg tion th t
that was bin V.m* ud f * real object, he promptly dieclai ed 1 ny ruch
intention on the part of his niftier• t hav< told the Hejd delegate*
that 1 see no possibility of their being allowed to go beyond 32 °
vi latitude, ( see my celtgrams and 41 dated 27 th and 28 th
l-ectmoer resptclively) and 1 furth r told them, confidentially and
by tatmeelveb, thot the only possibility of their obtaining so much
as th; t would be an undertaking ih&t they will agree to a genuine
desert boundary between th rpselvea and Hedjas and th surrender of
hai ar, hurmah and -ur&bah. lift it the principal o jeet oi th
mission oi ullah ih iidh to i in fa’ud, I have laid conoid-r ;ble ctrea
in conversation with them on ray personal opinion th<t for »is Highness
\hfc fulten of hejd to occupy the $ cU firhsn will be a fat&l mi. take
in policy, th~t he will bt, i\ r from his base and real uenires of power,
that his possessions in the Wadi Sirhan are certain to be liable to
constant raiding and that it will be necessary for him to send costly
urrlng expeditions to guard those possessions. 1 have further
contended that his Ikhwan tribesmen and indeed his whole system of
administration in th'*t quarter will be watched by jealous eyes and
subject to the constant scru iny of civilised administration and he
will be bringing an uncivilised administration close up against a
civilised administration anc that history tells us that such h course
oi action is always fat 1 to the less civilissd administration/. 1
cannot, oi course, hope uhat these ar, intents of th mselvee will at ?*11
av i 1 with is Highness the * ultan tut they ra;?y perhaps bt. useful as
a prelimin r o more serioue remonstrances. the last telegram which
X iiTS received from Bag G.l&-f, dated 15 th of J . ,y 1 M 4 find
received tnib corning, convinces me that 1 huve truly ei* ted the