!['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)' [‎18] (20/96)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x00029e/IOR_L_PS_20_E90_1_0021.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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)' [‎18] (20/96)")
'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)' [18] (20/96)
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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of the Muhammara Convention were in any sense a disavowal of its
provisions or a repudiation of his signature. He had every intention
of respecting his undertaking, but he wished to explain how and why
that undertakmg came to be given. The Muhammara Convention
la been signed by his delegate in contravention of the instructions
issued to him, and he (Ibn Sa'ud) had refused to ratify it. When
X!" ,7 to U( l air six months later and insisted on the
with fh i. 0 I Convention, King Ibn Sa'ud found himself faced
with the choice between breaking with His Majesty's Government
and consenting to a frontier which in his opinion violated
the Protn ^ customs of the country. It was then that
bem^ The ob A the all - im P ortant Article 3, came into
fronfW in n ^ 0 i S Artlcle was to minimise the harm of a
as Ibn Si'nf? ma 1C eSert c ? untr y an< ^ its whole intention, as far
territorv on l-fh aS 7 aS that ever y wa ter-point in that
lccess7nT.h^ S1 + ^ fr ? ntier should alwa y s be left fr ce of
forces ThpfT. T fortmcation or any concentration of
people to ronV^r! 17 ^ Kmg ' * is im Possible for me or my
people to consent to the erection of posts in that desert.
discourse ^or^aiSh,—^'' 05 ^ w ^ ou t wishing to interrupt his
necessarv to ask 6 statemen t s he made, I found it
The first was wt^ ^ 66 qil f tl0ns in elucidation of his meaning,
was to be erected nm" h Con . sl ® red that no fortification of any kind
The econd was thlT r ^ ^ deSert from one end to the other,
fortification^rec^rf frf 1 any distincti on between a military
for the purpose of betf 1 ^ mi 7 P ur P oses and a police post erected
hLd was Xether T tter fP er J 1S10n and contro1 in the desert. The
^vemmerU takine- Tnl T derstand that ^ objected to the 'Iraq
frontier for the better pLtarofthetLrtrrer 5 itS ^
questions. He began bv de^rl' 111 ^ T x P licit . or complete reply to my
could be regarded as a nolirp 1 ^ 6 that tlle fort at Bllsai y a
distinction in fact could be marllw that ' in tlle deser t. no
post, and that the material point if ^ millt 1 ar y P ost and a Police
points were or were not to b^n^ri k 6 W x S whe t her certain water-
and in general a display of armed force men ' buildings '
the 6 Ki^ f relat1 ^ t0 the desert area, and asked
the provisions of Article 3 that nolV) rf. wbe t her he understood from
erected anywhere at anv no i ort ^ ca tion of any kind was to be
that desert Te Ki^ and what he meant by
need be considered was tint it - p a r0m Z 8 P oin t of view, all that
had been drawn in the Muhammara r" 058 ^ cl1 an ar tificial frontier
at Uqair, he was faced with the choice^ 1 He r . e P ea t ed that,
in a country where nomarhV ^ a -+- between accepting a frontier
v wnere nomad,c conditions precluded the establishment
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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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