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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. (July-August, 1928)' [‎9] (11/52)

The record is made up of 1 volume (26 folios). It was created in Jan 1929. 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 clear whether for the purposes of representation abroad King
Ibn Sa'ud regards the Hejaz and Nejd as separate kingdoms or as
one State, and consequently whether he would wish to appoint
to 'Iraq and to receive from King Faisal two accredited representa
tives or one. If the question of representation is raised in your
conversations you should ascertain the wishes of King Ibn Sa'ud
in this matter and also in which of his towns he would wish the
accredited representative or representatives of 'Iraq to reside,
bearing in mind that the 'Iraq Government desire to be represented
at Riyadh.
The similar proposal for the appointment of an accredited Nejdi
representative at Jerusalem, whose credentials would cover both
Palestine and Trans-Jordan has been communicated to the Govern
ments of those territories who have expressed their willingness to
accept such a representative and the Trans-Jordan Government,
who have not hitherto done so, have agreed to accord to His Majesty
formal recognition of his regime in the Hejaz provided that King
Ibn Sa'ud for his part will recognise the independent government
of Trans-Jordan under the rule of His Highness the Amir, which
formally will come into being on the ratification of the Agreement*
between His Britannic Majesty and His Highness the Amir, signed
at Jerusalem on the 20th of February, 1928.
11. A separate letter will be addressed to you in regard to the
arrangements for your return to the Hejaz and in regard to the
composition of your mission.
I am, etc.,
J. E. SHUCKBURGH.
(C14549)
* Cmd. 3069.
C

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This printed booklet, produced by the Colonial Office in January 1929, is a continuation of the April-June 1928 account of Sir Gilbert Clayton, His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, on the second part of his third mission (July-August 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 annexures appears on folio 2v with the following sections:

  • 'Colonial Office to Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., 19th July, 1928 (Letters of Instructions)' (folios xx);
  • 'Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., to Colonial Office, 3rd September, 1928 (Further Report on his Mission)' (folios XX);
  • 'Record of Proceedings' (folios XX);
  • 'Memorandum on the Proceedings of the Sub-Committee Meetings' (folios XX);
  • 'Draft Note on the Arbitration of Raids between Najd and Trans-Jordan' (folios XX).

There is one appendix which consists of a Foreign Office letter to the Acting British Agent and Consul, Jeddah, dated 1 November 1928. The front cover is marked 'Confidential', 'Printed for the use of the Colonial Office' and 'In continuation of Middle East No. 25', '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)' (IOR/L/PS/20/E90/1).

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1 volume (26 folios)
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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 circles, 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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