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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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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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Britain, the Power which held a mandate for 'Iraq.
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to whom His Majesty had granted a private interview.
On the evening of the 17th May, the King's advisers, who were
holding a meeting with Mr. Antonius, asked to see me, and delivered
the following message from the King : The time was drawing near
when His Majesty would have to proceed to Mecca in order to
supervise the pilgrimage, and he felt obliged to leave on Sunday, or
at the very latest on Monday morning next. He, therefore, wished
to ask me whether it would be possible to bring our conversations to
a close by that time, adding that he would not only leave behind
in Jedda those of his advisers who might be required for further
discussions, but would also, if necessary, come to Jedda himself for
half a day at a time. I replied that I was aware of the approach
of the pilgrimage feast, and that I would endeavour to fall in with
His Majesty's wishes.
Ninth Meeting.
The ninth meeting took place at the King's House at 8 a.m. on
Friday, the 18th May, and was attended by the King, his four
advisers, Mr. Antonius and myself.
2. I opened proceedings by referring to the approach of the pil
grimage and His Majesty's departure for Mecca, and I proposed the
following time-table to His Majesty, namely, that I should devote
the present meeting to discussing Italian policy in the Red Sea, a
question which he himself had raised and on which he had asked for
His Majesty's Government's views, and that the afternoon would
be spent by Mr. Antonius in committee with the King's advisers in
discussing pending questions relating to Trans-Jordan and 'Iraq.
I also proposed that the following day should be spent in final
discussion of 'Iraq and Trans-Jordan matters and in bringing our
conversations on the major question of the forts to a final stage.
3. In a letter sent to Lord Lloyd through Shaikh Hafez Wahba,
His Majesty had expressed anxiety at the turn events were taking
in relation to Italian activities in Arabia and the Red Sea, and had
asked His Majesty's Government for a statement of their views.
I was able to inform His Majesty that, on the receipt of his letter.
His Majesty's Government had made friendly representations to
the Italian Government in accordance with the spirit of the under
standing arrived at in Rome in February, 1927, with which His
Majesty was acquainted. The Italian Government had replied with
assurances which had fully satisfied His Majesty s Government that
they were carrying out the spirit of that understanding.
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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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'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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