File 2182/1913 Pt 8 'Arabia – Policy towards Bin Saud' [215r] (13/602)
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already informed yourself
a/ram.
^jnich it is needless to reoeat
second problem is that Kina; Hussein, Sherif
01 ^ t-'Cca, has .’i/en to you the strongest possible securities
that his action against the hostile Sheikh Khalid Bin Lowi
Ameer of Khazma is a local one and his attack is not at all
directed against us who have got not the least fear of trans
gression on the boundaries* So I request you that this
point is extremely difficult as I have already told you of
the matter of Khaled Bin Lowi and his country and the oppress
sion of the Sherif against him who has not mot the least
reason against him either religious or geographical and that
is what you might have gathered from my verbal answer to you
and from the letters of Ibn-i-Lowi and from the letter of
Prince Abdulla, the son of the Sherif. So if the matter is
not settled in favour of the safety of the said Khalid and
the security of his country and that there would not be the
least transgression upon him, then the matter is that firstly
I would never agree with it at all and secondly if by force,
I like to agree, all the Arabs would stand, against for the
preservation of their religion and their worldly interests
and they would not care even if I and you both join against
them and thus there will be troubles and disturbances which
can never pass in your mind and cannot be imagined. Moreover
I haw/e concluded some coldness from these words or the fact
is that some of the Government Officers have not understood
the meaning of the Sherif and his claim that it is a "voice
of truth" while he, the Sherif, wants to serve, with this,
his own personal interests. So if any transgression, from
the Sherif, will take place upon the people of Khazma, after
their being given securities by us and by yourself, then I
will not be responsible for anything that may happen.
3, The third problem is that the Sherif Hussein out
of his good wishes for the welfare, is determined to send a
letter to me and the British Government considers it good
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Part 8 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]. Included are the following:
- discussion as to which ruler has the stronger claim to Khurma, and whether Bin Saud should be encouraged to begin hostilities against Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd, Emir of Ha'il], as a way of diverting the former's attention from other matters;
- copies of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, which was signed on 26 December 1915 and ratified on 18 July 1916;
- debate about whether the British should supply Bin Saud with more arms and ammunition (to make amends for providing him with 1000 cheap Winchester rifles);
- discussion of the possible benefits of arranging a meeting either between King Hussein and Bin Saud or between the former's son and the latter's brother;
- discussion about the possibility of an officer from the Egyptian service succeeding Harry St John Bridger Philby as the British representative to Bin Saud;
- reports of Bin Saud having begun operations against Bin Rashid, and discussion as to how the British should respond;
- speculation on King Hussein's actions in Khurma and the implications for Britain's policy in the region;
- a copy of a memorandum from the Foreign Office's Political Intelligence Department, entitled 'Memorandum on British Commitments to Bin Saud';
- reports of an Ikhwan force advancing towards Mecca, and discussion as to how the British should respond.
This item features the following principal correspondents:
- High Commissioner, Egypt (General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate);
- Secretary to 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. 's Political Department (John Evelyn Shuckburgh);
- Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson [based in Baghdad and acting both as Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and as Civil Commissioner, following Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's transfer to Persia];
- War Office;
- Foreign Office;
- Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Edwin Samuel Montagu];
- General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Mesopotamia [William Raine Marshall];
- Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Baghdad;
- 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. , Koweit [Kuwait] (Percy Gordon Loch);
- Harry St John Bridger Philby;
- Bin Saud.
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- File 2182/1913 Pt 8 'Arabia – Policy towards Bin Saud'
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- 212r:222v, 274v:277v, 297r:309v
- Author
- Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal (xx Ibn Saud)
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