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File 2182/1913 Pt 11 'Arabia: relations with BIN SAUD Hedjaz-Nejd Dispute' [‎282r] (118/678)

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The record is made up of 1 item (336 folios). It was created in 16 Oct 1919-28 May 1920. It was written in English and Arabic. 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»uso of Uio ti'oublo, out Ilia Highaass if-iit dree-t stifaas on
feha n&Q*snity for an intorviow b a two on Ian 3* ud and Mmaalf bagoi e
the forsior saw tho Xing. Ho said that ho was mro that aftax
half an bourse sonvorsation with I bn Sand ©attars aould bo
prop? rod for a rapproohoLiant, I prasums tho >mir w nts to
warn I bn Baud not to t?; the Cin^ too serious!/ or to be
anno/ad ii the King into a passion, aa wail as to tr/ and
oocaa to an agrooiaent bstwoan tnaiasaives bafora easing the IClng*
'during the oourss of ~ » so .vor sat ions with, .air
Abdullah, ha talked of Syrir, but not bitterl/, and told mo that
buir Faisal had four times telegraphed for him just before the/
entered sus to e For el , lie .jr # but t ae
')u;.d refused sinoa he had read the w Mofahon w letters and saw
oienrly how things .mint turn out and what the eventual position
of B/rir would be. It ■.&% obvious, he added, that France
would put forward oiaium to S^ia, and it was equally obvious
from hir Hear/ . j. nnon*s. letters that England would have to
forego any oiain to Syria.
fh@ signlfleanoe of this ?dniaaion after his previous
attitude over the above mentioned letters, seemed lost to the
Aair; moreover, I suspeot his reason for refusing to join Faisal
mm jealousy of hia brother, and sther ambitions,
fhe dmir then turned th aonvorsation 031 the affairs oi" the
Iraq, ho told mo tir t he ^as 1 orused of hi ving ambitions in the
Iraq, f’ho days, ho said, were over whoa a man could set forth with
a few followers to another country and px?: oe a arown on his head
ana proclaim himself Xing or Fair of it. He himself had never
aspired to place himself in a position like th ■■ Prince of ,ied
in Ubania. f.as there ever suoh a coward! M , the ,mir inter joe ted,)
Hs iiksd the Iraq, the people wars more civilised then in the
Hsjaz, and there was «m intslloctuel ole«t> to associato With
whilst there was none in the Uoj's. He would certainly li :o to
ba .mir of the Iraq if ruarenteed Br'itish support and aid fox at
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Part 11 concerns British policy regarding the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz] over Khurma and Tarabah [Turabah]. Much of the correspondence documents the efforts of the British to persuade the two leaders to agree to meet. It is initially proposed that the two should meet at Jeddah; however, it is reported by the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, that Bin Saud refuses to meet King Hussein at Jeddah, Aden, or Cairo, and suggests a meeting at Baghdad instead. A number of other possibilities are discussed, including the following: the Secretary of State for India's proposal of a meeting of plenipotentiaries, either at Khurma or Tarabah, as an alternative to a meeting between the two leaders themselves; a suggestion by the High Commissioner, Egypt, that the two leaders meet in London; a proposal from Lord Curzon [George Nathaniel Curzon], Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that Bin Saud should be induced to meet King Hussein on board a British ship at Jeddah, or, as is later suggested, at Aden.

Also included are the following:

  • an account from Captain Norman Napier Evelyn Bray, political officer in charge of the Nejd Mission, which recounts the last days of the mission's stay in Paris, in late December 1919;
  • a report from the High Commissioner, Egypt, on his recent meeting with King Hussein, which relays the latter's views on the allocation of control of Syria to France;
  • discussion regarding the growing power and influence of Bin Saud's Akhwan [Ikhwan] forces;
  • a note on the dispute by Harry St John Bridger, in which he volunteers to induce Bin Saud to agree to a meeting at any place (outside of Hejaz) suggested by His Majesty's Government;
  • memoranda and diary entries written 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. at Bahrain, Major Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, all of which discuss at length Dickson's interviews with Bin Saud at Hasa [Al Hasa] in January and February 1920;
  • extracts from a report by the British Agent, Jeddah, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edwin Vickery, which recounts his recent interviews with King Hussein and the King's son, Emir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī].

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File 2182/1913 Pt 11 'Arabia: relations with BIN SAUD Hedjaz-Nejd Dispute' [‎282r] (118/678), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/391/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100032475964.0x0000b0> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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