Coll 6/31 'Hejaz: Hejaz-Polish Relations. Polish Arms for Ibn Saud.'

Content

This file, which consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) and the Polish Government.

The correspondence includes the following:

• Details of the visit of a Polish delegation to Jedda in May 1930.
• Reports on the despatch of arms and ammunition (as well as coal, sugar and cement) from Poland to the Hejaz in August 1930.
• Details of Emir Feisal's [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd's] visit to Warsaw in May 1932.
• Discussion regarding the Saudi Government's debt to Polish arms manufacturers for the arms purchased in 1930 (according to the correspondence, one half of the bill for this purchase remained outstanding in 1934), and whether or not such a debt might prejudice British debt claims against the Saudi Government.

The file features the following correspondents: the High Commissioner for Egypt (Miles Wedderburn Lampson); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (William Linskill Bond, succeeded by Cecil Gervase Hope Gill); His Majesty's Ambassador in Warsaw (William Erskine).

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

Extent and format

1 file (48 folios)

Arrangement

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

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 48; 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.

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/12/2097

Former external reference(s)

Coll 6/31

History of this record

Date(s)

28 Jun 1929-19 Apr 1934 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Foreign relationsDiplomacyArms salesDebts

People & organisations

Government of Hejaz and NajdGovernment of PolandHigh Commissioner, EgyptHM Chargé d'Affaires to JeddahHM Ambassador to Saudi ArabiaGovernment of Saudi Arabia, Āl Sa'ūd dynastyHM Ambassador to Poland

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