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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)' [‎22] (24/52)

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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one. In his opinion, that was not the way, indeed it was a most
dangerous way, of ensuring a quick and reliable intelligence system.
The proper way would be for expert officers like Captain Glubb to
move about among the tribes and find out what was happening by
maintaining an alert watch. If more was needed in the way of
secret intelligence, there were plenty of people in both countries
who would make excellent spies at a moderate salary. Further,
he wished to point out that my report of what Sir Percy Cox had
said filled him with surprise. He remembered perfectly clearly that
Sir Percy Cox had told him over and over again at Uqair that
Article 3 would preclude him (Ibn Sa'ud) from building a post at
places like Lina ; and the location of Lina was such as to make it
scarcely accurate to describe it as being in the immediate vicinity
of the frontier. He also remembered that in his discussions with
Sn Percy Cox he had often asked him to define the nature of the
neutral zone between 'Iraq and Najd, and it was clear from Sir
Percy Cox s definition that the neutral zone was intended as an area
which would remain in all respects common to both sides while
the desert area on either side of the frontier would remain common
to both sides only so far as concerned demilitarisation and freedom
of tribal movements.
6. I replied to His Majesty by assuring him once again that all
his arguments and representations had been very carefully con
sidered, and that I regretted to inform him that His Majesty's
Government, much as they desired to go as far as possible towards
meeting his point, were unable to give way on a question which they
regarded as a matter of vital principle. I could not admit that there
had been any breach of trust and I stated again that His Majesty's
Ciovernment in arriving at their conclusion were confident that they
\\ere carrying out the spirit as well as the letter of their engagements.
1 begged His Majesty to avoid coming to a hasty conclusion on this
subject.
7. 1 he King answered with characteristic bluntness that the matter
was no longer one which called for reconsideration. He had given
to this question all his time and his thoughts for the last eight
months and more, and he was sufficiently aware of his rights and of
t e icalities of the situation to express his conclusions without
lesitation. He added with a restrained vehemence that there were
only two courses open to him. One was to tell his people that he
a ailed and that there was no hope left of his securing what he
considered to be their rights. The other was for him to clear out of
his country bag and baggage and take refuge across the seas. He
used an emphatic oath to assert that it was absolutely impossible
for himself or his people to accept the conclusions that His Majesty's
oyernment had arrived at. He felt that His Majesty's Government
nad placed themselves in the position of a party to this quarrel
and that they were issuing a verdict in a dispute in which they

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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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