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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [282r] (139/308)
The record is made up of 1 item (154 folios). It was created in 26 Dec 1915-12 Dec 1916. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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t'ty jotiui' with BhaUdi Ihralite^and your relations ritlt life I entlornn
shat i'our iioneur said, w!ii#i is, that all are nnreed that lie
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rerutining in the is not expedient* Tour pel ley and
correspondences with reference to tiln appear® to me to hare he*m
quite appronriatoj tsit there is no doubt that Itm Hashid is
unable to appreciate and reconnis# it* do is absolutely
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nei^ibonrtiood and by dlowing plenty of aetirlty, tie evidently
thought that lie would secure on© of two things t either thst
you would coisply with his d«mds < but tlmt was impossible
for ©wing to your diplemey and capeMlity you tnderstarid
his position m yon do that of ethers) 0 '~ that he would receive
mrw benefits from the Turfs* *ml all ttie of the
Turks with him hare boon badly mnaged# Tiny ccriplird with
his wants to mmm ortout but it would mm ttmt they liewe given
him up as ci bait job owing to his previous conduct ami the way
in which he lies trifled with thus*
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Abel el hatif e ; hmidil to l^lirein irsfowii^ him that your
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Part 5 concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and, to a lesser extent, Britain's relations with the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]. It includes the following:
- a copy of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, dated 26 December 1915, plus a copy of the ratified treaty, dated 18 July 1918;
- reports of an agreement between Bin Saud and Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
- details of munitions that are to be given by the British to Bin Saud;
- translated copies of correspondence between the High Commissioner, Cairo, and the Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- discussion as to whether the British should press Bin Saud to take specific action to assist both the British and the recently deposed Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- details of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's meetings with Bin Saud.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (as both Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force D);
- Bin Saud;
- Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge, succeeded by Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain];
- High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon);
- Grand Sherif of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī];
- Foreign Office;
- Secretary to the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. 's Political Department (Arthur Hirtzel).
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- File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud'
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- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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