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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)' [‎20] (22/52)

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. I explained to His Majesty that the whole question should be
viewed as one because everything really depended on a satisfactory
solution of the main question of the posts, without which it would
be useless to proceed to any discussion of the other matters. I had
endeavoured to put quite briefly before him the main points, and
I hoped that he would take his own time in considering them and
would give me the honour of another interview at his convenience.
7. During the course of my interview I took occasion to tell His
Majesty that I was permitted to give him a piece of information
which had not yet been made public and which 1 must ask him to
keep confidential for the present. It was that Sir Henry Dobbs was
leaving 'Iraq shortly at the expiration of his period of office and that
His Majesty's Government had decided to appoint me to succeed
him. His Majesty's Government felt that it was due to His Majesty
to give him early information of this decision, and I hoped that in
view of the frankness and cordiality which he had always shown
towards me, he would feel confident that his interests and those of
his country would always be regarded by me with sympathy and a
measure of understanding.
I took my leave at 10 a.m.
Second Meeting.
The second meeting was held at 3.30 p.m. on Thursday, the 2nd
August, in the King's house and was attended by the King with his
three advisers, and by Mr. Antonius and myself.
2. I asked the King whether he had any observations to make on
the statement I had made at the first meeting ; on his replying in
the negative I proceeded to explain the practical aspects of the ques
tion of the posts as envisaged by His Majesty's Government. I
informed him in the first place that His Majesty's Government, while
insisting on the retention of the posts as a matter of principle, were
anxious that there should remain no misconception in His Majesty's
mind as to the character and the objects of the desert posts. I said
that His Majesty's Government had authorised me to give him an
explicit assurance that the posts were not intended, either at present
or in the future, as a threat to Najd, or in any way to interfere with
the lawful movements of tribes who were subject to His Majesty.
I added that I had been authorised to give him that assurance in
writing. I went on to inform His Majesty that the present intention
of the 'Iraq Government was to confine themselves to the retention
of the existing posts at Busaiyah and Salman and that, while reserving
to themselves full liberty, in case of hostile action on the part of

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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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