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'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil' [‎161r] (330/422)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (207 folios). It was created in 1 May 1934-1 Jul 1934. 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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JUL,
H.M' b Miniater, Jedda.
E.M 's Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, London, iio. 149.
Government of india, foreign and Political
Department, to. 37
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Politioal iieaidant, i5ushire # ^o»l3a.
Dated E3rd received a4th June 1934.
Telegram
from
To
Repeated to
My telegram i^o# 147#
1. Tone of Saudi communication is polite
but very firm. In view od importance of precise lan-
-guage used and your desire not to go too fast I told
fuad yesterday that Hismadeaty f s Government were unlikely
to form their opinion of communication until they had seen
its concise terms and that while unable to discuss merits
of question I wished to elucidate certain points.
2. I feared that use of plural 11 Governments ,,
in note implied agreement should be mth local rulers.
Ifaad assured me that intention was merely to state general
principle applying to any frontier agreeraent between Saudi
Gove r rim en t and any other Government whatsoever.
ab 1 drafted my telegram under reference
adter my conversation with i'uad i think it unnecessary to
tslegrajh regarding other points elucidated thereby. I
will report fully by despatch by next ba^.
4. notwithstanding limits which I set to
conversation we naturally touched main issue at various
Points. ]?uad referred more than once to Karawer as though
he considered...

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The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, the 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. in London, the Shaikh of Qatar, ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, and the Foreign Office in regard to the southern borders of Qatar, the Qatar oil concession and the relations of the Shaikhdom with ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), King of Saudi Arabia. There is also correspondence regarding an air reconnaissance of Qatar to be carried out via RAF flying boats, which took place on 9 May 1934, including reports of the reconnaissance (folios 147-154).

Some of the documents in the volume are marked as secret or confidential.

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1 volume (207 folios)
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The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 196-202). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the volume; they give brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.

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The main foliation is written in pencil, circled, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.The numbering begins on the title page, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 207.

There is another foliation sequence, incomplete.

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