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File 2182/1913 Pt 11 'Arabia: relations with BIN SAUD Hedjaz-Nejd Dispute' [‎320r] (194/678)

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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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Translation of a note dated Jamadi-ai-awwal, 1338 (
February 1920) gi^en personally by Bin Saud to ajor H.R.P.
Dickson, in Hasa.
I have the honour to state that you honoured me with
your visit and we discussed with each other the circumstances
which I rega,rd with apprehension and which interest both sides
I may also mention that as you hear my son Daisal has returned
from his journey on this date and has expressed deep gratitude
to His Majesty the King Emperor ana His Majesty’s Government
for the great regard and kindness shown him for which I offer
my thanks to His Majesty the King Emperor and His Majesty’s
Government. I conversed with them (Nejd Mission) in connexion
with the discussions they had with the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, the Right Honourable Lord Curzon, and my
cousin and representatives Ahmad Al-Thanyan As-Saud informed
me regarding the negotiations which took place between him and
the aforesaid, of which you took a copy. After a conversation
between me and the above mentioned, owing to some words, in
the conversation which took place between him and the Secre
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, I was rather sorry, and my
mind forbade me to do anything until I discuss and exchange
views with the honourable Colonel Wilson, Civil Commissioner
in Mesopotamia,on this subject. The questions which made
discussions difficult for me are firstly, the question of ’’
"Tarabah” and ’’Khurma”; because Government Officials allege
having evidence of Shareef’s possessionjof these; secondly,
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the Interpreter who used to interpret during the time the
meeting was held between the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs and the Mission was one taking the side of the Shareef,
so that they even noticed excessive severe words in the dis
cussions; thirdly, regarding t3jie subsidy: (It was said) ” We
wont help you until you compromise with the Shareef”. As
regards what they witnessed witn. their own eyes in the papers
published under the signatures of the Officials of Egyptian
Government, the who3.e of the news was about the Shareef and hi£

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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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