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File 2182/1913 Pt 7 'Arabia: Policy toward Ibn Saud' [‎58r] (111/420)

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The record is made up of 1 item (206 folios). It was created in 4 Jan 1918-7 Aug 1918. 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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IN THE NAME OF GOD THE MOST MERCIFUL.THE COMPASSIONATE
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To the Noble, Eminent Personage, Descendant of the
pure lineage of Hashlm, the good Emir and the kind help,
our Master and Father, Hie Highness Sherif Hussein Ibn
Ali, Emir and Sherif of Mecca, may God preserve him and
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grant him his benevolent hopes and all good intentions*
Amen*
Sinceie greetings and good salaams to your good kind
self. I beg to write this to ask for your health. Our
situation is, thank God, all right and pleases you in all
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respects. Nothing has happened which is worth mentioning
to Your Highness. I have received your cordial letter
most respectfully and understood its contents. As regards
stimulating us against the friends and their cousins, I
think you have been told false informations about them.
Most people say right things intending to show things as
wrong "If the utterer is ignorant the listener may not lie".
How could we dare prevent ourselves from performing
the dutiful matters which we should do and how is it that
we order five Bedouins and tell them to do such and such a
thing. This is a thing you yourself should know and realise,
as it is not in favour of our religion or policy. I have
told you of the original case through your delegate
"Buqeiran" and informed you of all what has happened lest
events may occuh.
The wicked continued their evils till they took their
cousins minors, unlawfully plundered the rights and killed
the men. I am, thank God, not weak. All are under my
order and in my hand. I can deal with them alright and can
have the right from them. By God, I only left them alone
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Part 7 primarily concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz].

It includes discussion as to whether Britain should provide Bin Saud with military assistance to enable him to take decisive action against Bin Rashid (also referred to as Ibn Rashid) [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd, Emir of Ha'il]. The policy advocated by the Government of India is that Bin Saud should be 'kept in play' by gifts of money but that arms and military instructors should be supplied sparingly. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox and Harry St John Bridger Philby, on the other hand, favour an offensive against Hail [Ha'il] by Bin Saud, with British assistance. Also included are the following:

  • a memorandum from the War Cabinet's Middle East Committee, on the position of Bin Rashid in relation to other Arab rulers;
  • a note entitled 'Relations With Ibn Sa'ud', prepared by the Arab Bureau's Irak [Iraq] section, which provides a British perspective on Britain's relations with Bin Saud from 1899 onwards;
  • notes on conversations held between Colonel Cyril Edward Wilson and Major Kinahan Cornwallis of the Arab Bureau, and Emir Abdulla [ʿAbdullāh bin al-Ḥusayn], son of King Hussein, during December 1917;
  • a copy of a report by David George Hogarth on his interviews with King Hussein at Jeddah;
  • a memorandum 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. at Kuwait, Colonel Robert Edward Archibald Hamilton, which is primarily concerned with relations between Kuwait and Riyadh;
  • notes by Hamilton on Bin Saud, based on conversations with the latter at Riyadh in November 1917;
  • correspondence between British officials regarding King Hussein's attempt to reoccupy Khurma and its impact on his relations with Bin Saud.

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