File 2182/1913 Pt 8 'Arabia – Policy towards Bin Saud' [298r] (180/602)
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and you concurred subject to the approval of ’.BJ ’s
Government.
hen you net us at Shanqi you rejected those views
and explained to us how it was inner.ruble to act in accord
ance ” ith then, e then resolved to take up the fi ht with
ibn anc you eioressad tlus vi^w that the -overement
would orovide ub with the nocar..-ary supplies and r a ter i ale
for tha war if *-e fought with a in and prosecuted the war
to the utreat of our power. Out of our sincere friendship
with *s o Vermont and in coma deration of tha fact
that our interests in reward to the an my are id mtical,
we accepted your a ro do sals (although we realised that they
involved somia trouble and lops to ourselves) and we informed
you that, at the berinnirv; of hmeruihan, our son furki wo id
make a > ova in order «o initials the fifrrit, and that, after
hamadhsn, we ? ould arocoed towards ia,iira. ,o that end I set ,•
t ys If to work with the enemy.
then the mom errors of immumr care in to us for peace
(on conditions that ibn 1 Ajil and others should be under
our control as their tribes were before), we referred the
natter to you and you expressed tie opinion that we should
not be friend tribes of Ibn tosh id on account of his enmity
to ' . *8 Government and the help be renders to the furks
until wo could muarantoe that they 7 oult not return to
him or afford him assistance, s explained to you that wo
could not do that as fhamnr and Ibn Gash id were all trie
•art© for moo- -.vil. -ur object in i he ■ in the
fhr^ ar was based upon political expedioney, both int rnal
»nd foreign, that is to say, it see-cd that our doinr favours
to ihe**‘ and sunnlyim then ^ith their needs would, ait r
all, rxm result in friondaliio between thor and us and
entity between them and ibn Rashid; and should he a ole
fco have access to their Councils mid ororot them neither to
help Ibn Caahid rminsi us nor to further his )ro-Aurk
oolicy or interests; a course which soula result in
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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'
- Pages
- 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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