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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)' [‎18] (20/52)

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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18
ANNEXURE I.
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS.
First Meeting.
0 ^ rSt mee ti n g was held at 8.15 a.m. on Thursday, the
2nd August, at the King s house and was attended by the King
with his three advisers (Shaikhs Hafez Wahba, Yusuf Yasin Fuad
Hamza) and by Mr. Antonius and myself.
2. I opened the conversation by informing the King that I had
taken the opportunity of the suspension of our discussions to proceed
to London and report to His Majesty's Government. On my arrival
m London I had prepared an interim report explaining the situation
fully and had submitted it to His Majesty's Government. This
report had been carefully considered by the Government, who had
then brought it before a Sub-Committee of the Cabinet, presided
over by the Prime Minister, for examination and discussion. I had
been called before the Sub-Committee personally, had given full
\ erbal explanations and had been closely questioned by the
responsible ministers. I was informing His Majesty of this in order
to assure him that his views had been placed faithfully before His
Majesty's Government and had received careful consideration in
the highest quarters. Hence, the decision which His Majesty's
Government had arrived at was based on all available information
and was the result of mature deliberation.
3. I then suggested that it would perhaps be well for me to state
briefly to His Majesty the main points of the decision which had been
arrived at, in order that he might be able to consider the broader
issues as a whole. We could proceed later to discussion of minor
points and explanations of detail.
I reminded His Majesty that the main point at issue had been the
differences of interpretation of the terms of Article 3 of the Uqair
Protocol, in which was bound up the question of the advanced posts
which had been set up by the 'Iraq Government and to which His
Majesty objected. I regretted that I was unable to give him an
answer which he would consider favourable on this point and, as
1 had envisaged in my previous conversations with him, His Majesty's
Government were unable to accept his interpretation. They realised
that the wording, both in English and Arabic, was not very precise,
but neither they nor the 'Iraq Government had ever contemplated
any such interpretation as that which His Majesty had placed
upon it. They would not have accepted such an interpretation at
the time and they could not do so now. The 'Iraq Government,

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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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