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'File 61/11 X (D 170) Nejd-Hejaz Miscellaneous' [20v] (53/554)
The record is made up of 1 volume (270 folios). It was created in 20 Jan 1942-26 Jun 1945. 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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Enclosure 3.
Colonel De Gaury to Mr. Stonehewer-Bird.
^ T, rp-rTTCj . Riyadh, November 14, 1941.
11118 morning I was sent for by His Majesty for another audience,
lie wasan a very good humour. We started off by discussing his family.
• whetlier Mansour were the eigth or ninth son. He laughingly
admitted his ignorance, and we had to count his sons on our fino:ers. which were
not enough. 0
ki This gave me an opportunity to make an allusion, in the biblical style, to the
blessing by (rod of his stock and, after a moment of reflection, to say that other
tamilies were not so blessed.
He then touched on the question of the Syrian Monarchy, saying without
wif aCe ^ hesitation, " the best thing for that country is to remain a republic.
Where there is no suitable man, why put in a puppet. A king without kingly
attributes is worse than useless." ^ ^
said .^ a t in re g a rd to the Syrian Desert, we really must come to an
agreement with the French He kept on repeating this, and how the French
ti?v IT ng h 6 0 if®", res P onsive us when we first entered the
and V1S t ^ offi ? lals now - This was an impossible situation,
and we should take steps to terminate xt one way or another. He spoke of his
about whitwLTrWn Sha alan, from whom he received much information
aoout wnat was going on m Syria.
Arabs had to be treated firmly, and this weakness and division in the
th a k as I" 84 . 411 ® opportunity by which the enemy would profit
through the Arabs who always took such opportunities '
the Amb trib 0 ™ 7 ' inste * d ° f b TS P la ^ by the Arabs we should balance
the Arab tribes one against the other, just as he had balanced, for example the
Qahtan against the Ataiba and the Ataiba against the Qahtan. The placing bv
was^ewdlut r n a tW haid T' a11 the North Syrian ^ wa8 "diculous-he
wronp mrthnH 11^ weak man anyway, and in addition it was a completely
wrong method. Also we should not pay large subsidies to the tribesmen.
Krpnnt! i \ 0 , f tlle desert . m his stones of Fowwaz Ibn Sha'alan and the
whether Glubb wa^L^
the Syrian desert, but that, unless we had a reallv working arrangement with
r'eSS I; sc ,he th "
i^cLZSstersr sr'' mjsstit's* T • ««•
find this more interesting. " Yes " he said " for mp it ' 0l1Ce ' a seemed to
an Englishman in the Iraq desert.'' 18 m0re Ira P ortant to have
have'a^lt^L'rSLTnsprctir^thfdlse^r^e C0Uld
not what he meant, but a ''mandoub'arepfeserSti veof was
He repeated his remarks about the thoCanf GemaL Tf k
time for a thousand Germans to arrive in Iran i c , cf fr there had been
the Middle East in chaos. It was miraculous thaw^H 11 ® T have seen
we had. If we had delaved patie^% Ba ra Twnnl A aChe i Bag \ da ^ when
peace in Arabia. We had been ne^lecffnl in ti, r 1 ? ve )e( ni the end of
given a God-sent lesson. He praved to God wa PaS a " now we ^ad been
of this respite. The time was running out Were g0lng t0 take advan tage
Be firm with the Arabs—war is not neacp On fi-. 0 , ,
exaggerate his words. It was not for him tn intT f other hand, I was not to
our affair, not his. hlm to lnterf ere or offer advice. It was
As for Iraq, Nuri was a better Premier than rvthp^ t ■, ,
and wooden-headed (the same words used to me hv nfp T) M ad fai was slow
embassy in Baghdad). Alas, Nuri was no? (InS & Z'of
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The volume consists of telegrams, letters, and reports relating to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Most of the correspondence is between the British Legation in Jeddah, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, 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. and the Foreign Office in London, and the Government of India.
Much of the volume covers Saudi-US relations, including:
- US financial assistance to Saudi Arabia;
- the report (ff 146-147) of a medical tour of the country made by the American Mission to Bahrain;
- a trip to Kuwait made by Colonel Hoskins, President Roosevelt's Personal Envoy to Ibn Sa'ud in August 1943;
- the opening of a US Consulate in Dhahran;
- a secret report (ff 223-224) on 'America and Arabia' from the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire.
Other subjects covered are:
- the report (ff 79-99) of a trip to Riyadh made by Tom Hickinbotham, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Kuwait;
- the wartime supply situation in the region;
- the financial situation in Saudi Arabia;
- Ibn Sa'ud's relationship with Sa'ud bin 'Abdullah bin Jiluwi, the Amir of Hasa;
- telegraphic communications in the country;
- meteorology, including a report (f 181) on the British Meterological Party's tour of Saudi Arabia;
- Ibn Sa'ud's request for British military and financial assistance.
Also notable within the volume are:
- Gerald De Gaury's interview with Ibn Sa'ud (ff 19-22);
- annual summary reports on Saudi Arabia produced by the British Legation in Jeddah for the years 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944;
- a letter (152-154C) from Bertram Thomas to the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire following his trip across Arabia, detailing anything he thought might be useful for the British Government to know;
- a report (f 175) on the Saudi Arabian royal family by the British Legation in Jeddah.
At the end of the volume (ff 249-264) are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (270 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. There is an alphabetical subject index to the contents, at the front of the volume (folio 2).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the sequence starts on the first folio and continues through to the inside back cover. The numbering is written in pencil, circled and 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. There are the following irregularities: 1A, 1B, and 1C; 28A and 28B; 154A, 154B, and 154C; 216A and 216B.
Condition: the broken spine cover is detached from the volume and enclosed in a plastic sleeve numbered folio 265, at the back of the volume. The plastic sleeve may cause some loss of sharpness to the digital image of the spine cover.
There is a second sequence that is inconsistent. It is also written in pencil but is not circled.
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- 'File 61/11 X (D 170) Nejd-Hejaz Miscellaneous'
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