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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)' [‎28] (30/96)

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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3. His Majesty replied by assuring me that, although he was
himself deeply moved by what he considered to be wrongful acting
of the 'Iraq Government, yet he would willingly have done violence
to his own feelings for the sake of peace, had it not been for the high
feeling among his people. He said that he himself was capable of
sacrificing an immediate advantage for an ultimate gain, but that
it was asking too much of his tribesmen to expect them to give way
in a matter to which they attached such great importance, no
matter how 7 wise or fruitful such an abandonment might eventually
prove to be. He added that this was a question on which the people
of Najd of all classes felt so strongly that they would never even
question the justice of their own attitude. It would have been an
easier task for him, added His Majesty, had they actually taken up
arms against him. But being now up in arms against what they
consider to be an outrage on their feelings and independence, and a
menace to their liberty, they would never accept that he should
assume any different attitude to that which they themselves had
adopted.
4. The King went on to say that he had another point to make.
As everyone knew, the flow of pilgrims to Mecca had begun some
months ago and was now reaching its climax. This was a factor
to which he had to pay the most careful consideration, and he could
not afford, at a time when there was in the Hejaz a large concentra-
v. 0rei ? n P 1 , & r ^ ms ' to take measures which for obvious reasons
might have involved a risk of disturbance in the Hejaz. The Kin?
wfnf questl ° n ^ as one which had an important and direct
fhnf hi pre f nt ^ ls ? lssio11 ' and he gave me the impression
that his statement might be a prelude to some fresh disclosure or
went Tt Pr0P0S fi!' f . Ut my im P ression was not borne out when he
ent on to say that having considered the question from every
oarticulai^ h 1 ^ who , \ he Arabs in general and his people in
oermanpnt t 1 hat the onl y possible solution lay in the
permanent dismantling of the posts
with much reJS 5 M !l received this expression of opinion
upon^iim thaf Hk Ma. ^ to accept it as final. I again urged
traditional oolirv f ^ ^ ° vernment not on ly maintained their
traditional policy of friendship with him, but had definitelv
oTsuch I nature 0 a?to m h y | b T endea , vour3 to arriv e at a settlement
people I asked hfm to h P conso ] lld 1 ate hi s Position with his own
interests which the^ represeSed Now my^mission 1 ' 18 ^ t ' le
was one

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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:

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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1 volume (48 folios)
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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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