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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [263r] (101/308)
The record is made up of 1 item (154 folios). It was created in 26 Dec 1915-12 Dec 1916. 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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dealings with one another and affected by our individual
views and interests) it is evident and well known to Your
Honour that none of us will let an opportunity pass which will
■benefit us against the enemy,and that the reason for absten
tion from action is that we are watching for such an
opportunity as please God,will secure a successful issue.If
however,the case is otherwise,and if you discern in the
matter anything conducive to my interests and yours there is
no doubt that T will not, Tnshallohitdeviate fro^ your opinion
or your point of view,after consultation between us,either
in writing or by confidential messenger,or Hthcr> might be a
meeting between me and Your Honour at any place you nleasc,
so that we could exchange views on the subject. That is what
I should like best,for there are necessarily many matters
in one f s hxxd mind which affect the interests of both parti es.
If you so order it and if 37-011 think it advisable
that we should have a meeting,you must give me sufficient
notice to enable a meeting to be arranged. I will await a
renly to this letter and the receipt of your instructions.
Inshallah,you will inform me of good and gratifying
news of the victories of the Great Government in Iraq and
elsewhere. It is ever our hope that j^our friendship with me
will be perpetual.
In conclusion I wish you good health ancl prosnecity.
May you be preserved etc.
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Part 5 concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and, to a lesser extent, Britain's relations with the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]. It includes the following:
- a copy of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, dated 26 December 1915, plus a copy of the ratified treaty, dated 18 July 1918;
- reports of an agreement between Bin Saud and Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
- details of munitions that are to be given by the British to Bin Saud;
- translated copies of correspondence between the High Commissioner, Cairo, and the Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- discussion as to whether the British should press Bin Saud to take specific action to assist both the British and the recently deposed Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- details of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's meetings with Bin Saud.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (as both 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 Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force D);
- Bin Saud;
- Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge, succeeded by Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain];
- High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon);
- Grand Sherif of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī];
- Foreign Office;
- 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 (Arthur Hirtzel).
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- File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud'
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- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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