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‘Memorandum by Mr Parkes on British Policy of Non-Interference in the Affairs of Nejd [Najd].’ [7v] (2/2)
The record is made up of 1 file (1 folio). It was created in 3 Jul 1913. 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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Apr. 17, the Government of India as to the general situation in Central Arabia, Hib MajcvU &
19 0 7 Government saw no reason to modify the policy laid down in the telegrams ol the
t 1 !, 067 ^ 71 ' 30th December, 1904, and the 9th November, 1906, that British interests and influence
Mav6 Ce ' in those regions should be strictly confined to the coast; and that they agreed with
1907 ' Sir N. O'Conor that it would be most unwise for them to entangle themselves with tne
[14856/07]. Wahabi Amir, or in any other way to interfere in the internal affairs of Arabia
EDWARD 1 AnKho.
Foreign Office, July 3, 1913.
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The printed memorandum, written by Edward Parkes of the Foreign Office, is headed ‘A. Asiatic Turkey and Arabia. Confidential. [July 3] Section 6.’ It summarises past correspondence (dated from February 1904 to May 1907) between Government officials on Britain’s policy of confining their influence to the coastline of eastern Arabia, and not interfering with Ibn Saoud’s [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)] affairs in the Arabian region of Najd. The subheadings in the outer margin, alongside each paragraph, indicate the author, number and date of the correspondence being summarised. There is a handwritten addition to the memorandum, written in red ink at the top of the first page, which reads: ‘Memorandum B 200’.
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- 1 file (1 folio)
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The memorandum is arranged into ten paragraphs, each of which has a subheading, written in the outer margin alongside the corresponding paragraph. The contents of the memorandum are arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 7, and terminates at f 7, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and won't be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- IOR/L/PS/18/B200
- Title
- ‘Memorandum by Mr Parkes on British Policy of Non-Interference in the Affairs of Nejd [Najd].’
- Pages
- 7r:7v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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