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‘File 25/2 Saudi-Yemen Treaty’ [‎5r] (9/84)

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The record is made up of 1 file (40 folios). It was created in 18 Jul 1934-11 Sep 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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ideal unity of Moslems and Arabs which it is the present fash"
ion to acclaim.
5. When all is said and ddne there is little to suggest
a real pooling of interests except Articles 15 and 17.
former of these is no-*- very explicit. The latter contains a
singular definition of neutrality, comppimded,1 think, of the
three ideas that neutrality in the European sense is a duty,
that a brother’s a brother for a’ that and that it just as
well none the le^s to try a brother up in the knots ofk formal
understanding if you diould need to trust to his neutrality.
I am not ignoting the reference in Article 19 to the possibi
lity of an ultimate customs union ' ut that need not, I think,
be taken very seripusly at present.
6. The only other point to which I need advert is the
reference to secrecy in the first pa-g^ of annexed letters.
The Satdi letter suggests that the Treaty should be kept
secret, expecially the part relative to the frontiers, for fear
of disturbances, more particularly in the coastal region. It
might have been supposed that this reason would operate until
the Saudi evacuation, had been complete, but Ibn Sa’ud and his
Government seem to have been conten/t in the end to delay
publication only until their preliminary conditions had bee/n,
fulfilled and the coming into force of the Treaty was assu
red.
7. I am sending copies of this despatch and enclosures to
His Majesty’s Ambassador, Home, His Majesty’s Chief Commissio
ner, Aden, The Hon’ble 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. in the Persisn
Gulf, Busfriire, His Excellency the r igh Commissioner for Pa
lestine, Jerusalem, His Majesty’s Ambassador, Baghdad, and His
His Majes'y’s High Commissioner, Ramleh.
I have the honour tp be with the highest respecf
Sir,
Tour moat obedient,
humble servant,
An dre* R3 r an

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The file comprises copies of four separate communications from the British Legation at Jedda, enclosing translated summaries and copies of the Treaty of Taif, agreed between the Saudi ruler ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), and the Yemeni ruler Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn, to end the 1934 territorial dispute between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The first letter (folios 3-5), from Sir Andrew Ryan, Minister at the British Legation in Jedda, dated 27 June 1934, encloses an annotated summary of the Treaty (folios 6-11), concluded between the Saudi and Yemeni rulers on 6 Safar 1353 (equivalent to 20 May 1934). In his letter, Ryan makes comments on various aspects of the treaty, its wording, and Saudi-Yemeni relations.

The second letter (folios 13-14), from Albert Spencer Calvert at the British Legation in Jedda to Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 30 July 1934, encloses a translated copy of the Treaty of Taif (15-27), a copy of an arbitration covenant between the Saudi Arab Kingdom and Kingdom of Yemen (folios 28-30), and copies of annexed, translated letters (folios 31-35).

The third letter, sent by Chancery at the British Legation in Jedda to 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 the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , dated 11 September 1934 (folio 37), includes the text of an article to be inserted into the Treaty of Taif, which was missing from the earlier text. A copy of a further letter (folio 39), addressed to the Foreign Office from the British Legation at Jedda, explains the accidental omission.

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1 file (40 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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 between ff 1-41; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

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