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Enclosure in Foreign Office covering letter, dated 15tli March 1935.
{Received on ttth April 1935, with Political Secretary's letter No, 12 , dated 21 st
March 1935,)
Letter from the Foreign Office, to the British Legation, Jedda, No. E.- 1514 ]
154!31, DATED THE 13TH MARCH 1935.
Yon Vill have seen from paragraph 1 of the Palestine Police Summary
No. o 135,_ dated the 13th February that, as a result of the Pan-Islamic campaign
in Palestine, an A ran delegation has set out fox the Hejaz with a view to conduct
ing anti-British propaganda there.
We should be very glad to hear of any instances of such propaganda which
you may encounter during the pilgrimage.
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Memorandum from IT. M.’s Minister, Jedda, No. 42 (764|61|2), dated the 27th
March 1935, transmitting Foreign Office, despatch No. 89 of 24th March
1935.
Enclosure to Serial No. (27).
Letter from H. M.’s Minister, Jedda, to the Foreign Office, No. 89 (763]6l!2),
dated the 24th March 1935.
As you are aware Ibn Saud makes it his annual practice to give a great
banquet in Mecca for notable pilgrims of all nations just before the Pilgrimage.
I find that I sent no separate report on this event last year but I included some
account of it in my despatch No. 88 of March 31st, 1934, on the Saudi Yemen
situation. This year the occasion merits separate treatment.
2. This year’s pilgrimage has brought to the Hejaz an unusually large
number of Moslems of high standing and a good many politicians of less note
but of some importance in their own countries. The former have included
cr-King Amanullah of Afghanistan ; His Highness the Nawa.b of Bahawalpur ;
the chief Begum of His Exalted Highness the Nizam ot Hyderabad, with Sii
Nizamat Jung in attendance ; another Begum of the ^Hyderabad family ; tne
Glawi from Morocco ; Abdullah Ibn Wazir, the Governor of Hudayda, who was
here last year as Yemeni delegate at the peace negotiations ; Nawa'b Sir f mar
Hayat Khan, honorary A.-D.-C. to His Majesty the King ; and a brother of the
Sheykh of Dibai.
3. Most of the male personages just mentioned were among the five hundred
guests or so, whom the King entertained on the evening of March 12th As tlie
King had arrived only on March 10th, the arrangements were made hurriedly.
Among the absentees were the Nawab of Bahawalpur, who pleaded il ness, an
Sir Umar Hayat Khan, the reasons! for whose non-appearance I do not know
The Nawab may have been worried about questions of precedence but members
of his suite attended the dinner. The King had er-King Amanullah on his ng ,
with Sayyid Hasan A1 Idrisi and, I believe, the Glawi beyond. The second place
of honour on his left was given very significantly to Abdullah At W azir.
4 The King’s principal speech was reproduced, as usual m the Umm-ab
Qura probably fn an edited version The published version- md worth sub-
mitting to you in full but. a few points may be noted. began with ms
customary exhortations and insistence on the importance of close adherence t
Modem tenets, especially the doctrine the Unity He and were Bedmns,
possessing nought except the blessing of God and des g P and re f e r-
Arabs and Moslems. The King then spoke of the T Afand A i Wazir,
red specially to the.past enmity sho“ he said the dis^
■who were how sitting at his table. Th o^proiiv had welcomed the
advantages of discord to both sides. wether/ The most interesting
peaceful ending and he invited them all t . q ia t foreign influences
passage in his speech was that m which he scouted the idea th« g for
bad caused the quarrel. Moslems and Arabs rudely against each
their differences. In their press utterances they raged ruae y
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