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'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (April-June, 1928)' [16] (18/96)
The record is made up of 1 volume (48 folios). It was created in Aug 1928. 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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Port Sudan, I left for Cairo by the overland route. On the dav of
my arrival in Cairo (31st May) i proceeded to Jerusalem, where
I conferred with the High Commissioner and the British Resident
mman, on the matters affecting Trans-Jordan. After a stay of
two days in Jerusalem, I proceeded with Mr. Antonius and
P I O ^ ^Nald^a 0 " 6 ^ POrt Said ' Where We embarked on the
44 I cannot close this Report without expressing the gratitude of
myself and the members of the Mission to His Majesty the Kin? of
the Hejaz and Najd and to the officials of his Government for thdr
conducted thro'T ^ COnsideration - Our converses we"e
nducted throughout in an atmosphere of amity and mutual
convenience. 311 eVerythmg P osslble was do ne for our comfort and
Mr. Stonehewer-Bird and his staff gave us every help and T shonlrl
ike espeaally to mention Mr. Seagar and Mr. Thacker of the Consular
staff, on whom the presence of t 8 e Mission
asskian^T. 6 0f l Mr - C°™wallis and Captain Glubb was of great
with Ibn Sa'ud and his advisers' 0 personal acquaintance
such as to afford a fa ™ ur -
a----aswsj
of Mr'™ ^tij^^a^cir^to tlfp ( M' Ve ' :ilmen rr^ 0r lendi "gthe services
indefatigable, and performer! hi'c 1SS10n " , e was efficient and
entire satisfaction in conditions of som^comfOTt andlnc"" 6 ' t0 ^
his sound judgment and his unLalM Wufstic gtSL PS / Ch0l0gy '
a p Ss;xt a o^7cte His f - w srsx
and his advisers, but in the preparat^ToTthirReport"" 11 Ibn Sa ' Ud
I have the honour to be.
Sir,
\ our obedient servant,
Gilbert Clayton.
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This printed booklet, produced by the Colonial Office in August 1928, is an account of Sir Gilbert Clayton, His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, on the first part of his third mission (April-June 1928) to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud), King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Najd and its Dependencies. The purpose of the mission was to negotiate outstanding questions mainly concerning boundaries of and relations between Ibn Saud's territories and Iraq and Trans-Jordan following the Hadda and Bahra Agreements of 1925, and the Treaty of Jeddah of 1927.
Clayton was accompanied by George Antonius, Assistant Secretary to the Palestine Government; Kinahan Cornwallis, Adviser to the Ministry of Interior in Iraq; Captain John Bagot Glubb, Administrative Inspector in the Iraq Government Service; Flight-Lieutenant G M Moore; and Bernard Henry Bourdillon, Counsellor to the 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 Baghdad. The Najd delegates included: Dr Abdullah Damluji [‘Abdullāh al-Damlūjī]; Shaikh Yusuf Yasin [Yūsuf Yāsīn]; Shaikh Hafez Wahba [Ḥāfiẓ Wahbah]; and Shaikh Fuad Hamza [Fu’ād Ḥamzah].
A page of contents and list of annexes appears on folio 2v with the following sections:
- 'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, KCMG, KBE, CB' (folios 3-9);
- 'Record of Proceedings' (folios 10-22);
- 'Memorandum and Minutes of the Proceedings of the 'Iraq-Najd Sub-Committee' (folios 23-32);
- 'Memorandum on the Proposed Arbitration between Najd and Trans-Jordan' (folios 33-34)
- 'Notes Exchanged on the Suspension of Negotiations' (folios 34v-35);
- 'Draft Extradition Agreement' (folios 36-27);
- 'Draft Bon Voisinage An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders. Agreement' (folios 38-40);
- 'Correspondence Relating to Frontier Incidents, April, 1928' (folios 40v-43).
There is one appendix which consists of Colonial Office letters of instruction to Sir Gilbert Clayton, dated 17 April 1928 (folios 43v-47). The front cover is marked 'Confidential' and 'Printed for the use of the Colonial Office'. Clayton's account is continued in 'Middle East No. 28', 'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (July-August, 1928)' (IOR/L/PS/20/E90/2).
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There is a table of contents, a list of annexes and an appendix, which make reference to page numbers in the volume.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (April-June, 1928)'
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