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'File 61/11 V (D 95) Hejaz - Nejd, Miscellaneous' [217r] (450/530)
The record is made up of 1 volume (261 folios). It was created in 12 May 1932-28 Dec 1933. It was written in English and French. 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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1933]
IBN SA'tJD AND THE FUTURE OF ARABIA
525
living thing for the whole hundred and twenty miles. Never
theless a sound military appreciation of the Akhwan must lead
one to the conclusion that untrained fighters, however brave
they may be, have no possible chance against any trained troops.
I should very much doubt whether the Akhwan were better
troops than the Shabana of 'Iraq; I would have backed any of
my own companies of Shabana against double the number of
Akhwan. Whether they are a terrible menace or not, the fact
remains that Ibn Sa'ud has them under very firm control and
can now ride them on a single snaffle. There is no tangible
evidence to justify the belief that they would ever invade any
country outside their own without express orders from Ibn Sa ud,
and he would never be likely to give the order. The two attacks
they made recently onTransjordan were tragedies for the Akhwan.
In this connection I should like to draw attention to a mis
take which I have come across in a book entitled The Middle
East, by Major Poison Newman. Perhaps it is my legal train
ing, but I do not like to see something in a book which is not
only inaccurate but is capable of being proved inaccurate. Hav
ing read the book I discovered that the authority for the state
ment was the Amir 'Abdu'llah, who is naturally partisan. Major
Poison Newman says, " Undoubtedly the object of the raid was
to increase the Wahhabi territory and revenue. There is not
one scrap of evidence to show that Ibn Sa'ud ever approved of
or had anything to do with either of the Akhwan raids.
The Akhwan will never forget the words addressed to them after
the last raid, from which out of one thousand, five men returned.
" Think not, ya Akhwan, that we consider you of much value.
Think not that you have rendered us great service and that we need
you. Your real value, ya Akhwan, is in obedience to Allah and then
to us. When you go beyond that, you will be punished. And do
not forget that there is not one among you whose father or brother
or cousin we have not slain. Aye, Wallah, and it was by the sword
that we conquered you. And that same sword is still above your
heads. Beware, ya Akhwan. Encroach not upon the rights of
others. If you do, your value and that of the dust are the same.
We took you by the sword and we shall keep you within your bounds
by the sword, insha/Uah." 1
The latest step Ibn Sa'ud has taken has been to change the
name of his dominions from the " Kingdom of the Hejaz and of
Nejd and its Dependencies " to the " Kingdom of Sa'udian
Arabia." This is the master-stroke of Ibn Sa'ud's career. I
1 Taken from Ibn Sa'ud, by Ameen Rihani.
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The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to the Hejaz and Najd. Much of the correspondence is from the British Legation in Jeddah, with regular reports on the situation in that region sent to Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary in London. The rest of the correspondence is mostly between the Political 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 Bushire, the Political Agencies in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Muscat, the Colonial Office, and the Government of India.
The main subjects of the volume are:
- the change in name from 'The Kingdom of the Hejaz-Nejd and its Dependencies' to 'The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia';
- the announcement of Ibn Sa'ud's eldest son, Prince Sa'ud, as the heir apparent to the throne;
- the territorial dispute between Yemen and Saudi Arabia after the latter's absorption of the 'Asir region into its kingdom.
A copy of the 23 September 1932 issue of the newspaper Umm al-Qura is contained in the volume (folios 57-58). It features the Royal Order proclaiming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Other miscellaneous subjects covered in the volume include:
- relations between Italy and Saudi Arabia;
- a dispute between Ibn Sa'ud and his agent in Bahrain, al-Quasaibi [‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Qusaibi], over a debt the former owes the latter;
- a revolt against Ibn Sa'ud by tribes loyal to ex-King Hussein coming from Sinai;
- a request for a loan made by Ibn Sa'ud to the British Government;
- relations between the Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia;
- relations between the USA and Saudi Arabia, including the visit of a Mr Gallant looking for oil concessions;
- concessions for the building of the railway between Mecca and Jeddah;
- the prospect of Saudi Arabia joining the League of Nations;
- the case of two slave girls seeking refuge at the British Legation in Jeddah.
Other documents of note contained in the volume are:
- a copy of a new customs tariff for Saudi Arabia (folios 122-134)
- a 'Who's Who' of Saudi Arabia, produced by the British Legation in Jeddah and covering all those deemed important to know by the British (folios 183-200);
- an envelope containing the torn-out pages of an article in the International Affairs journal (Vol. 12, No. 4, Jul., 1933, pp 518-534) entitled 'Ibn Sa'ud and the Future of Arabia.'
At the back of the volume (folios 245-251) are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (261 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arrranged chronologically.
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Foliation: The sequence starts on the first folio and continues to the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, circled and 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. Note that following f 1 are folios 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D. The sequence then continues as normal from folio 2. There are two other foliation systems present but both are inconsistent and neither are circled.
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- Lewis, Captain C C
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