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Coll 6/22 'Yemen: Relations with France. Claim to Sheikh Said.' [37r] (73/144)
The record is made up of 1 file (70 folios). It was created in 4 Mar 1930-9 Oct 1940. It was written in English and French. 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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(58/5/39)
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British Emhassy,
Parisc
30th March, 1939.
My dear Baxter,
When I handed to M. Lagarde to-day the Aide-
Memoire based on Foreign Office despatch No. 705
of 34th March about alleged Italian activities in
the Red Sea, he took the opportunity to refer to the
question of the French claims to Sheikh Said. He
said he would like to make an unofficial enquiry with
regard to His Majesty’s Government’s opinion on
French rights over this peninsula. He seemed to
think that we had a definite opinion. The reason,
he said, why they would be grateful for an unofficial
and oral indication of our views was that the son of
the King of the Yemen, when passing through Paris on
his way to the Palestine Conference, had asked what
was the French attitude. He would no doubt be
returning shortly and the Ministry would like to be able
tc give him an answer as they had promised to do on
his earlier visit.
M. Lagarde said that French rights rested on an
agreement with the local Chiefs of October 1868, and
the treaty of 7th July, 1870, with the Ottoman
Government. The question of the French rights was
a complicated and juridical one, but the matter for
the moment presented itself in a practical way.
At/
C.W. Baxter, Esq., M.C.
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This file, which consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns relations between France and the Imam of Yemen [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn], and French claims to Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd].
Matters discussed in the correspondence include the following:
- The attitude that should be adopted by the British Government in the event of the French Government according official recognition to the Imam of Yemen.
- Details of a Treaty of Friendship between France and Yemen, signed on 25 April 1936.
- French claims to Sheikh Said (which reportedly rest on an agreement made in 1868 with local chiefs, and on a treaty with the Ottoman Government, signed in 1870).
- British concerns regarding the possibility of an Italian occupation of Sheikh Said.
- The Imam's decision to import arms for the fortification of Sheikh Said.
The principal correspondents are His Majesty's Ambassador in Paris (Ronald Hugh Campbell), His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan), and officials of the Foreign Office and Colonial Office.
In addition to correspondence, the file includes the following: a copy (in French) of the aforementioned Treaty of Friendship between France and Yemen (folio 50); a copy of a declaration (also in French) between France and Yemen, regarding Sheikh Said, dated 18 July 1936 (folio 5).
The French material in the file consists of the aforementioned treaty and declaration (plus draft copies of the declaration) and several copies of a memorandum addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by the French Ambassador in London.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (70 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 72; 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.
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- Coll 6/22 'Yemen: Relations with France. Claim to Sheikh Said.'
- Pages
- 1r:3v, 4v, 6r:9v, 12r:32v, 36r:49v, 51r:72v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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