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'Negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Boundaries of Saudi Arabia' [‎2r] (3/40)

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The record is made up of 1 file (18 folios). It was created in 29 Sep 1949-23 Aug 1950. 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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Secret,
urgent,
11/16/49.
Politics! Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ,
Do hr,
29th September 1949.
V - J
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/our letter C/Q 56 of 22nd September.
2- 1 have once egein put to the Sheikh the suggestion
that he should send ? proper representative to the Jedda con
ference. He still does not wish to do so. for the ssme rea
sons as those he advanced before, namely Ihat there is nobody
he can trust not to do as much harm r as good, and that there
is in any case nobody who knows- anything about it. I am in
clined to share his views on this head. If whoever w'ent were
to contribute as little as he and Salih do when discussing
the question w r ith me, Qatar’s case would fare poorly.
6. I have sppken with Mohammed bin Sa’id at Hajiri,
who is of course quite illiterate and unable to relate his
knowledge to a map, but who is not unintelligent, and seems
to know what he is talking about. His principal value is
that he is said to have given evidence at a previous official
enquiry, of which there are presumably records, and (accord
ing to the Sheikh and Salih) his evidence was not disputed
at that time. The records would show whether this was so or
not. He appears to have been accepted by Ibn Sa’ud as an
expert on the subject, and Aramco are reported to have tried
to get him to define the frontiers for them. This is of course
not evidence of anything at all, but he does seem to be a res
pected character whose presence at Jedda would be useful, he
is less likely to contradict himself, if he goes on his own,
than he is to be contrsdicted if he is accompanied, by any of
the available M experts” here.
4. The attitude which Salih and the Sheikh adopt is i
that the boundary between Qatar and Saudi Arabia is not in
dispute (even though they do not know where it is themselves) 1
and that Ibn Sa’ud would never think of laying claim to land \
which everyone knows belongs to Qatar. They also point out \
that in giving the concession to P.C.L., Sheikh Abdullah drew
the line well within the frontiers of Qatar, and they cannot
see that this itself constitutes e danger. I have no copy of I
the Concession, so I cannot say whether the wording in it sup
ports this view.
5. They are at present auite content to leave the con
duct of the matter in Helly’s hands, and pathetically trustful
of the good faith of Ibn Sa’ud. Whet their attitude will be
if they lose some of the land which ’’everybody” knows to be
long to Q-atar I cannot say. It is a possibility which I have
not so far succeeded in getting them to see.
n.i ioiitica! q *Afeent, Bahrein.

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This file concerns Saudi Arabian boundary negotiations between 1949 and 1950 and specifically concerns boundaries with Qatar (folios 2-3 and 6-12), Buraimi [al-Buraymī] (folios 4-5 and 16-19) and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (folios 14-15). The file contains correspondence between Herbert George Jakins, Cornelius James Pelly and R Andrew, Political Agents at Bahrain; Arthur John Wilton, 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 Doha; and Patrick Desmond Stobart, Political Officer at Sharjah.

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1 file (18 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: The main foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the 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 incomplete sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-19; these numbers are written in a combination of pen and pencil, 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.

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