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Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate' [160v] (320/376)
The record is made up of 1 file (188 folios). It was created in 14 Feb 1929-1 Aug 1939. 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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Annexure 5.
f Annexure 6.
8
sentatives to discuss the question in greater detail with my
representative, Mr. G. Antonins, in the hope that some way
might be found of adjusting our conflicting points of view.
Discussions between the Imam’s representatives and Mr. G.
Antonius.
20 . Conversations lasting for nearly a week then took plar-^—.
between Mr. G. Antonius on my part and Sayyid Abdullah ib w
Ibrahim and Qadi Abdullah el ‘Amri on behalf of the Imam, but
little progress was made. The Imam’s representatives were
either unwilling or afraid to advance from the position which
the Imam himself had taken up at the earlier meetings, and it
was only after lengthy discussion that they eventually submitted,
informally and subject to the Imam’s approval, a counter-draft*
of Article 3, which I was totally unable to accept either in prin
ciple or in detail. Having been informed to this effect, they
retired and, after an interval of three days’ consideration, they
returned on the 6 th February with a complete counter-draftf
of the treaty which, as will be seen, is so entirely in conflict with
the principles on which the Draft of August, 1924, is based as
to be impossible of acceptance and hardly susceptible even of
discussion.
Knowing something of the methods and mentality of Arab
diplomatists and making full allowance for the peculiarly remote
and secluded conditions in which these particular persons have
been born and bred, I had been reluctant to hurry matters and
anxious to give full scope for the development of the arguments
which the Imam wished to put forward.
A fortnight had now elapsed, however, during which lengthy
discussion had produced no result beyond the presentation by
the Imam’s representatives of an entirely unacceptable counter
draft, the terms of which showed no advance whatever on the
part of the Imam towards meeting the requirements of His
Majesty’s Government. I decided, therefore, that the time had
come when it was necessary for me to place the issues clearly
before the Imam himself and face him with the necessity of
giving me a definite answer on the main question of principle
on which alone the proposed treaty could be based.
Discussions with the Imam.
21. I, accordingly, requested an interview with the Imam at
which I laid the main issue clearly before him, pointing out
that no agreement was possible unless it was based on his recog
nition of the Protectorate Treaties and the boundary as demar
cated in 1903, 1904 and 1905, and on his undertaking to with
draw from districts which he had occupied on the Aden side
of that boundary. If he found himself unable to accept these
premises no agreement was possible, and the only course open
to me was to take my departure at once and return to London
to report to my Government. I added that failure to reach an
agreement now would be most regrettable, as it would aggra
vate an already sufficiently unsatisfactory situation and "must
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The file contains papers regarding proposals to alter the basis of treaty relationships with tribes in the Aden Protectorate, comprising annotated treaty drafts, plus correspondence between the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, 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. Political Department, the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, then Governor), and the Air Ministry.
The correspondence primarily concerns a proposal by the Resident (Sir Stewart Symes) to replace existing individual tribal treaties with a single instrument, and to cease payments of fixed stipends for general service in favour of payments for services rendered. The proposed change in policy was later abandoned by the Chief Commissioner, Sir Bernard Reilly.
The correspondence also concerns Symes's conference at Lahej, and the pact with the Lahej and other Chiefs to defend against Yemeni incursion into the Aden Protectorate; the deteriorating relationship between the Aden Protectorate and the Imam of San'a; and the suggestion by the Resident that a Chiefs' council should be established along the lines of the tribal councils in Baluchistan, to act as the central authority for the settlement of tribal affairs.
The papers dated 1939 concern the Tripartite Agreement with the Qu'ayti [Qu'ayṭī] and Kathiri Sultans in the Aden Protectorate; the treaty between the British Government and Sultan Salih bin Ghalib Al Qu'ayti [Ṣāliḥ bin Ghālib Al Qu'ayṭī], Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla; and the reconstituted Qu'ayti-Kathari Agreement of 1918.
A copy of the Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton on his Mission to the Imam of San'a (Colonial Office, 1926) is enclosed at folios 156-187.
The following treaty and agreement drafts are found within the file:
- the agreement [the Lahej Pact] between the Chiefs of tribes and districts within the Aden Protectorate made 6 April 1929 in the presence of the Resident and Commander-in-Chief, ff 119-120;
- a draft treaty between the Chiefs of Upper Yafa and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, agreeing to adhere to the purposes of the Lahej Pact of 6 April 1929, ff 84-85, 64-65, and 46;
- a draft agreement reconstituting the Qu'ayti-Kathiri Agreement of 1918, between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, His Highness the Qu'ayti Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla, and the Kathiri Sultan of Seiyun, on behalf of the Sultans of the Family of 'Abdulla al Kathiri, dated 26 February 1939, ff 19-23;
- a draft treaty between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and Sultan Ja'far bin Mansur al Kathiri, Sultan of Seiyun, dated 2 March 1939, ff 17-18;
- a draft treaty between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and Sultan Salih bin Ghalib al Qu'ayti, Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla, dated 13 August 1937, ff 3-6.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio one).
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- 1 file (188 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the folder.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 188; 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 15-188; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but have been superseded and therefore crossed out. A typescript pagination sequence is present in parallel between ff 156-87.
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- Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate'
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- front, front-i, 2r:2v, 7r:16v, 24r:45v, 47r:63v, 66r:83v, 87r:118v, 121r:187v, back-i, back
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