Coll 6/86 'Saudi Arabia and Yemen: Relations with Japan.'

Content

This file concerns Saudi-Japanese relations. (Yemen is mentioned in the file's original title, but no reference to Yemen is made in the surviving correspondence.) It includes discussion of the following:

• Reports in 1938 of a Saudi Government representative having suggested to his Japanese counterpart that Japan establish a legation in Jedda.
• The visit of a Japanese minister to Riyadh in March 1939.
• Japanese interest in securing an oil concession in Saudi Arabia.
• British concerns regarding reported Chinese and Japanese propaganda in Saudi Arabia.
• Further reports in 1939 regarding the possibility of Japanese diplomatic representation being established in Saudi Arabia.

Correspondents include His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Reader William Bullard); the 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. (Trenchard Craven William Fowle), and officials of the Foreign Office and the Government of India's External Affairs Department.

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 (folio 2).

Extent and format

1 file (25 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 (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 27; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-26; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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/12/2159

Former external reference(s)

Coll 6/86

History of this record

Date(s)

19 May 1938-10 Mar 1941 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

DiplomacyBilateral relationsConcessions

People & organisations

Foreign OfficeHM Ambassador to Saudi ArabiaPolitical Resident, Persian GulfIndian Political Service, External Affairs Department

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