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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)' [11] (13/52)
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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6. On the eve of the opening of formal negotiations, Mr. Antonius
had a long conversation with the King's advisers, from which it was
evident that Ibn Sa'ud had not receded from his attitude in regard
to the interpretation of Article 3 of the Uqair Protocol and the cog
nate question of the advanced posts. I decided, therefore, that a
decision must be reached on these two cardinal points before the
'Iraq Delegation entered into the discussions. I also came to the
conclusion, bearing in mind that direct methods appealed to Ibn
Sa'ud, that further discussion and negotiation would serve no useful
purpose, and that the proper course was to lay the whole situation
before him and to seek a decision of principle on the major point
at issue.
7. I therefore informed Ibn Sa'ud, in the course of our first two
meetings, of the decisions which His Majesty's Government had
reached in regard to the interpretation of Article 3 of the Uqair
Protocol and the question of the posts, emphasising particularly the
close attention which the matter had received in the highest quarters,
and the full consideration which had been given to his views and
arguments which I had conveyed faithfully and in full to His Majesty's
Government.
8. I then explained fully the policy of the 'Iraq Government, and
the assurance which they were prepared to give, in regard to the
advanced posts, and dealt in general terms with the various other
questions which I was empowered to discuss and negotiate, pointing
out that His Majesty's Government and the 'Iraq Government,
though unable to give way on the main principle involved, weie
prepared to go to great lengths to meet the Hejaz and Najd Govern
ment in various other questions to which Ibn Sa'ud had always
expressed himself as attaching great importance.
9. I concluded by urging the King to consider the situation as a
whole, and to reflect deeply before deciding to maintain an attitude
with which His Majesty's Government could never agree, and which
would not only preclude a favourable settlement of such questions
as extradition,
Bon Voisinage
An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders.
, surrender of offending tribesmen and
recognition of the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Najd by 'Iraq and
Trans-Jordan, but might even endanger his relations with the British
Empire.
10. Ibn Sa'ud replied to this recapitulation of the main features
of the situation by a very calm and friendly, but quite unequivocal,,
statement to the effect that he had given to the whole question
careful and mature reflection and was unable to reconsider his
attitude. He was convinced that his interpretation of Article 3
was based on the spirit of the conversations at Uqair, in spite of
anything Sir Percy Cox might now say, and he repeated that he
would never have signed the Protocol or ratified the Muhammara
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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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