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Coll 6/2 'Hejaz-Nejd: Italo-Hejaz-Nejd Treaty and Relations. Attitude of Saudi Govt during Italo-Ethiopian Dispute.' [8v] (17/368)
The record is made up of 1 file (182 folios). It was created in 9 Sep 1930-9 Aug 1938. 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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F.ach af the two foreign instructors has thus six machines in his charge, and the
balance in favour of Major Ciccii. all of whose machines are in working order, is
redressed to some extent by the fact that he refuses to fly the new Caudron-
Renault, which he professes to regard as difficult and even dangerous, and that
M. Naidyonoff has been using it to train some of the Saudi pilots.
6. It is said that Major Ciccu has recently made an attempt to teach
navigation to a class of Saudi pilots that began with five, but fell almost
immediately to two. The task of imparting any theoretical training to these
pilots is made almost impossible by their lack of mathematical and other education
and of the practice of mental concentration, but the fact that some of them
attend a class conducted by Major Ciccu shows that the boycott of the Italian
mission has ceased.
7. The change in the attitude of the Saudi authorities towards the Italian
mission affords an interesting subject of speculation. I think there is no doubt
that until recently Ibn Sand regarded the Italians with suspicion and wished to
prevent their getting a hold of any kind in his country. It may be that the Anglo-
j Italian Agreement, by removing Ibn Sand’s fear of Italy, has tempted him to
| put some of his eggs into Mussolini's basket—a policy which may have been
j encouraged by the recent course of events in Europe. And perhaps he has begun
J at last to despair of inducing His Majesty’s Government to modify their Palestine
f policy.
8. The press state that the flight to Yanbu is only the prelude to a series
of flights to other coast towns, for the purpose of training Saudi pilots for flights
" in the heart of the kingdom and its parts.” There has been greater activity
in the air during the last few weeks than at any time since the Italian air mission
arrived, but it is the beginning of the financial year, and it is unlikely that petrol
will be provided later in the year with the relative liberality with which it is
supplied now. Whether the Italian Government can properly continue to provide
an air mission at their expense if the Anglo-Italian Agreement comes into force
is a matter of interpretation. To provide an officer and about eight mechanics,
all drawing overseas allowances, and to change the mechanics every six months
or so, must cost the Italian Government a considerable sum, and, as I have
suggested before, it is for consideration whether the effect of this arrangement is
not the acquisition of a privileged position of a political character. On the other
hand, what of the rights which the Iraqi Government wish to be free to exercise
under the 1 reaty of Arab Brotherhood and Alliance, not to mention a suggestion
that has recently been made, that the activities of the British Council "should
be extended to Saudi Arabia ?
9. I am sending copies of this despatch to His Majesty’s Ambassadors at
Cairo and Bagdad, and to his Excellency the High Commissioner for Palestine
at Jerusalem.
I have, &c.
R. BULLARD.
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This file discusses relations between the Italian Government and the Hejaz-Nejd (later the Saudi Arabian) Government. It contains copies of Foreign Office correspondence, forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. Included are the following:
- Reports from His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda, Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, on the progress of France's and Italy's respective treaty negotiations with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd].
- Reports from the British Ambassador in Rome, Ronald William Graham, on press reports announcing the completion and terms of two treaties (a Treaty of Friendship and a Treaty of Commerce) between the Government of Italy and the Government of Hejaz-Nejd.
- A copy of the treaty between the British Government and the Hejaz-Nejd Government [the Treaty of Jeddah of 1927].
- Copies of translations of the two treaties between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of the Hejaz, Nejd and its dependencies, dated 4 April 1932.
- Reports that the Italian Government has raised the status of its representation in the Hejaz and Nejd to that of a legation.
- Copies of correspondence between Cecil Gervase Hope Gill's successor, Albert Spencer Calvert, and the Foreign Office, concerning Calvert's meetings with Ibn Sa'ud's representative, Shaikh Yusuf Yasin, during August-October 1935, over Saudi Arabia's attitude towards the Italo-Ethiopian dispute and eventual conflict (the Italo-Ethiopian War).
- Copies of correspondence between the British Minister at Jedda, Andrew Ryan, and the Foreign Office, regarding the former's meetings with Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Fuad Bey Hamza, during late 1935 and early 1936, over Saudi relations with Britain and Italy.
- Reports on negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia.
- Copies of telegrams from Andrew Ryan to the Foreign Office, recounting his meetings with Shaikh Yusuf Yasin during April-May 1936, regarding Saudi-Italian relations.
- Details of gifts from the Italian Government to the Saudi Government, including arms and aeroplanes.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (182 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 183; 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. The leather cover wraps around the documents; the back of the cover has not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 4-182 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 6/2 'Hejaz-Nejd: Italo-Hejaz-Nejd Treaty and Relations. Attitude of Saudi Govt during Italo-Ethiopian Dispute.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:50v, 52r:68v, 72r:85v, 87r:140v, 142r:150v, 152r:155v, 162r:162v, 164r:164v, 167r:183v, back
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