Coll 6/8(2) 'Printed Series. 1938–'

Content

This file consists of printed copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office, which have been compiled by 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 External Affairs Department. Most of the correspondence is addressed to the Foreign Office by the British Minister at Jedda, Sir Reader William Bullard. Other received correspondence includes letters from His Majesty's Consuls at Benghazi and Damascus enclosing translated extracts from Damascus and Benghazi newspapers.

Subjects covered include:

• Plans for an Arab convention at Mecca, to be held during the 1937 pilgrimage season.
• Protests from Mussalmans [Muslims] in Tripolitania against a proposal [made by the Peel Commission] to partition Palestine.
• Reports of Palestinians amassing large quantities of what is referred to as 'anti-British propaganda' for distribution in Mecca.
• British relations with Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], including Bullard's accounts of his meetings with Ibn Saud.
• Italian-Saudi relations, including discussion of a recent delivery of arms from Italy to the Saudi Government.
• The future of Saudi Arabia in the event of Ibn Saud's death.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the front of the correspondence.

Extent and format

1 file (17 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 19; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/12/2072

Former external reference(s)

Coll 6/8/2

History of this record

Date(s)

1 Dec 1937-20 Aug 1938 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Foreign relationsPropaganda, Anti-British

Places

Saudi ArabiaPalestine

People & organisations

HM Ambassador to Saudi ArabiaKing of Saudi Arabia 'Abd al-'Azīz bin 'Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa'ūd

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