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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)' [33] (35/96)
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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not permit of such measures of defence and upkeep as might be
required on that route which for a considerable distance passed
through the desert areas.
Ibn Sa'ud assured me that he quite understood and that, in any
case, he had no intention of even threatening or interfering with the
air route, which he fully recognised as a vital Imperial interest.
As the hour of evening prayer was approaching the meeting rose
at 5.15 p.m.
Eighth Meeting.
The eighth meeting was held at the King's House at 8 a.m. on
Thursday, the 17th May, and was attended by the King, with his
four advisers, Mr. Antonius and myself.
2. I informed the King that there were still one or two questions
in regard to Trans-Jordan which required discussion. At the last
meeting we had examined the question of settlement of claims for
past raids, but we had not touched upon the further suggestion which
His Majesty had made to me at Jedda last year for the settlement
of disputes arising out of raids in the future. I alluded to the
suggestion that a Frontier Inspector, who was neither an official of
Najd nor of Trans-Jordan, should be appointed, to whom details of
raids would be furnished at the time of their occurrence, and who
would thus be in a position to collect timely and reliable information
for the guidance of any tribunal which might be subsequently set up.
I informed His Majesty that this proposal had been examined by
His Majesty's Government and by the Trans-Jordan Government,
who were both of opinion that it presented serious practical difficulties
which, in their opinion, precluded its adoption. The chief of these
difficulties being, first, that this official would owe no allegiance to
either Government, and, secondly, that it was unlikely that the
work entailed would justify the employment of a whole-time officer.
3. The King said that he saw the force of this argument, and
suggested that an arbitrator, selected from outside and unconnected
with either country, but with experience of Arab affairs, should be
selected by agreement between the two Governments at any time
when a dispute arose which could not be settled by the normal
procedure which had been laid down in the Hadda Agreement.
4. I agreed that this was a possible solution, but I expressed thfe
hope that cases of dispute would be rare, bearing in mind that with
close co-operation and constant exchange of information the majority
of claims should be settled without even the necessity of reference
to a tribunal. This had been the case in the recent raid of the
Ruwala into Trans-Jordan, which was being settled, thanks 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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