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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)' [30] (32/96)
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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Sixth Meeting.
The sixth meeting took place in the King's House at 9 a.m. on
Wednesday, the 16th of May, and was attended by the King, with
his four advisers, and by Mr. Cornwallis, Mr. Antonius, Captain Glubb,
Flight-Lieutenant Moore, and myself.
2. I opened the meeting by asking His Majesty whether he had
any suggestion to make which might lead to a way out of the dead
lock at which we appeared to have arrived. He replied that after
having thought over the whole question he had no proposal to make.
3. I then gave a brief summary of the situation, pointing out that
the main obstacle to settlement was the wide divergence which had
been discovered between the interpretation placed upon Article 3
of the Uqair Protocol by His Majesty's Government and that given
to it by His Majesty. I did not wish to question His Majesty's
statement of the view which he had always held, but I was bound to
inform him quite definitely that His Majesty's Government and the
'Iraq Government had never contemplated, nor could accept, any
other interpretation than that which I had now explained to him.
They must hold to the principle that each Government in its own
territory had the right to take such administrative and defensive
measures as appeared suitable and necessary. I was, therefore,
asking him to agree to discuss with me a formula which might remove
all doubt as to the real meaning of the Article in question in order
to prevent future misunderstandings.
4- There was nothing in the Uqair Protocol, as interpreted by
. Ma i est y ^ Government or warninted. by the wording of its
provisions, to prevent either Government from erecting posts, except
within the narrow belt which was envisaged by the actual wording
o Article 3. In point of fact, however, no fortified posts at all had
been established, or even contemplated, until the attack on Busaiva
and subsequent raids had made it essential to take adequate measures
or the defence of the population living in Traq territory. In view
of the attacks which had been made and of the disturbed state of his
tribesmen, which had already been emphasized to me by His Majesty
it was obviously impossible for the 'Iraq Government to dismantle
the posts under the threat of armed force and to leave Traq exposed
to similar attacks in the future.
5. With regard to the question of compensation, the attack on
Busaiya had caused loss of life and property, and the Traq Govern-
ment asked for compensation for the lives of policemen and employees
ailed and for material destroyed. There were also the losses inflicted
on Iraq tribesmen m the course of raids subsequent to the attack
on Busaiya, and I requested His Majesty to agree to reparation being
arranged for in accordance with the procedure laid down in the
relevant agreements m force.
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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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