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'File 1/A/38 I Negotiations with Bin Saud re:- Eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia with Qatar & Trucial Oman.' [‎51v] (107/452)

The record is made up of 1 volume (219 folios). It was created in 27 Oct 1934-24 Feb 1935. 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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o s ,v A Rvan observed that it was all the more important to have a clear
view as ioresf reference had been made in all the earlier discussions to two
other Powers non-Arab, with whom His Majesty's Government were also on
terms of friendship, and who were neighbours of Iraq though not of Saudi
Arabia.
9 Fuad Bey said that he had nothing to conceal. The two Powers just
mentioned were Turkey and Persia. His Government were at present on quite
friendly terms with both, and there was no aggressive motive behind their wish
for closer relations with Iraq. Nevertheless, the recent rapprochement be ween
Turkey and Persia had inspired anxiety m all Arab countnes. L, was all the]
greater as a secular racial animosity existed between Arabs and both Turks and
Persians. However correct relations might now be nis Government feared the
ulterior designs of Turkey and Persia, about which they had a good deal of
jo Turkey favoured the maintenance of the French position in feyria,
subiect to her wish for a readjustment in her favour in the Alexandretta legion
Mustafa Kemal Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. had stated to a reliable informant that Turkey preferred
to have two separate Powers on her southern border.(') There was no secret
about Persian aspirations in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , witness the clauns she wh|
asserting to Bahrein, &c. Persia was growing more powerful, she now had
six warships m the Gulf, where previously there had been none but British ships.
Speaking as an Arab, Fuad Bey would like to see Bahiein develop into an
independent Arab unit; in the meanwhile, he certainly did not wish to see Persia
establish a claim, as against His Majesty’s Government.
11 . Mr. Rend el said he did not think Persian claims to Bahrein need worry
Fuad Bey, but that he understood the general anxiety of which he had spoken.
At the same time such' information as His Majesty’s Government possessed did
not suggest that there was much danger in the rapprochement between Turkey
and Persia, or that either Power had aggressive designs. Turkey had pursued
a remarkably peaceful and non-aggressive policy for the last ten years.
12. Fuad Bey was impressed by the quick changes that came over the
relations of States. In Europe he found a very different grouping from that of
two years ago. He cited as one example the present closeness of the relations
between France, Russia and Turkey. It had looked some months ago as though
there were even more material for war than in 1914. Happily this danger had
been averted, but there might again be quick changes; and similarly in the East,
whatever the present position, Turkey and Persia might become hostile to the
Arabs. Any blow aimed by them at Iraq would, as the King had told Sir A. Ryan,
menace Saudi Arabia indirectly.
13. This digression was not further pursued. Fuad Bey said he under
stood what Mr. Rendel had said regarding His Majesty’s Government’s attitude
in regard to the proposed rapprochement between Saudi and Iraq. He went on
to ask what view would be taken of similar rapprochements with other
Arab States.
14. Mr. Rendel emphasised the importance which His Majesty’s Govern
ment attach to a settlement between Saudi Arabia and Koweit. As regards the
smaller States on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , however, he said that it would be of great
importance to know clearly what sort of arrangements Fuad Bey had in mind.
Was not the situation already sufficiently provided for under article 6 of the
Treaty of Jedda. His Majesty’s Government gave a very free hand to the rulers
of those States in matters of local concern, but they were responsible for their
foreign affairs. Saudi Arabia was a great and powerful State compared with
these minor sheikhdoms. Might not closer relations with Ibn Saud end by making
these States into something like satellites of the greater Power ? His Majesty's
Government would certainly not be able to acquiesce in any such development.
15. It was agreed to resume this discussion later. Asked what other
subjects he wished to raise, Fuad Bey again referred to the question of the south-
( 2 ) I took this to imply that he thought that Turkey would oppose any Arab combination in northern
Arabia, e.y., between Syria and Iraq.—(Initialed) G.W.R.
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The volume concerns the Eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia with Qatar and Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (also referred to as the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ), and negotiations over the boundary between British officials and Ibn Saud (referred to also as Bin Saud) [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, King of Saudi Arabia].

The volume contains reports and correspondence, principally from 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 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; HM Minister, Jedda [Jeddah] (Sir Andrew Ryan); other Foreign Office officials; 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. , Bahrain; Bertram Sydney Thomas; and officials of 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. .

The papers include: extracts prepared by 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. , for 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. , from a report by Bertram Thomas on the Trans-Oman air route reconnaissance of May-June 1927 (folios 8-21); papers on Anglo-Saudi relations and records of negotiations between HM Minister, Jeddah and the Deputy Saudi Arabian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Fuad Bey Hamza [Fu’ād Ḥamzah]), July-October 1934 (folios 37-60); further papers concerning Anglo-Saudi negotiations; papers prepared by 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle) concerning Ibn Saud and the Yemen campaign, November 1934 (folios 74-77); a letter from 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. , Muscat (Major Claude Edward Urquhart Bremner), dated 23 October 1934, concerning the boundaries of Muscat Sultanate (folios 78-80); a Foreign Office note dated 19 December 1934 entitled 'South-Eastern Arabian frontier and United States Oil Concessions' (folios 122-124); papers relating to the Blue Line [a line drawn by British and Turkish officials in 1913 from the Gulf of Uqair to parallel 20 degrees North, in the Rub al-Khali]; and papers concerning tribal affairs (e.g. report by 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. , Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch) entitled 'Tribal situation in the Hinterland of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ', folios 140-146).

The date range gives the covering dates of the correspondence; the earliest document is an enclosure on folios 8-21 containing extracts from Bertram Thomas's report on the Trans-Oman air route reconnaissance of May-June 1927, and the last dated addition to the file is an entry in the notes dated 25 February 1935.

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1 volume (219 folios)
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The papers are filed in chronological order from the front to the back of the file, except where enclosures of an earlier date are filed after their relevant covering letter, and terminate in a set of notes (folios 211-216).

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 221; 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 6-216; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in same position as the main sequence.

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