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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)' [23] (25/96)
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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those warnings, and explained that when His Majesty's Government
found that it was imperative to repel and pursue raiders, they
determined at the same time to take all possible steps to minimise
the risk of damage to people who were unconnected with those
raids. The only practical way was by dropping printed notes of
warning to the tribes who were located at the time just over the
border, and His Majesty must realise that this action was taken in
the interests of his subjects. It was not correct to judge the drop
ping of warning notes as an isolated measure ; it was a consequence
of the decision to take active measures for the protection of 'Iraq
against attack and as a precaution to safeguard innocent subjects
of His Majesty.
6. I concluded my somewhat lengthy statement by thanking His
Majesty for his patience in listening to me and in allowing me to
speak to him in such frankness. He himself had been so outspoken
in the morning that I had been encouraged to speak to him in the
same measure of frankness in order that no doubt might be left in his
mind as to the attitude of His Majesty's Government in this matter.
7. His Majesty replied by saying that in his life he had encountered
two species of negotiators. The first was the kind who preferred,
for fear of hurting his feelings, to gloss over difficulties and reproaches.
The other kind went straight to the point and spoke frankly regardless
of the pain that they might inflict. He had always had a marked
predilection for the latter kind, and he wished to express his apprecia
tion of my frankness. He said that he had a few observations to
make on my statement.
8. The first was that he wished to emphasise his own interpretation
of Article 3 of the Protocol of Uqair as being the correct one, and he
begged me for verification to refer to the record of proceedings which
Sir Percy Cox must have kept. Secondly, he wished to point out
very briefly that in his view no distinction could be drawn between
a military post and a police post in all matters relating to desert
life. It was obvious that the King did not believe that the establish
ment of a post at Busaiya was merely an administrative measure.
He denied that a post garrisoned by police could exercise any real
check upon the movements of raiders. He repeated that, whatever
the rights and wrongs of the case may have been and whatever
provocation His Majesty's Government may have received from
Faisal al-Dawish's attack (of which he strongly disapproved) the fact
remained that the action of the Royal Air Force was a flagrant
infringement of agreements concluded between him on the one hand,
and His Majesty's Government and the 'Iraq Government on the other.
That, said His Majesty, with some warmth, is the real point at issue.
He admitted that his subjects had committed thoroughly unjustifiable
attacks on 'Iraq, which called for stringent punishment; but, on
the other hand, it was incumbent on His Majesty's Government to
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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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