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Coll 6/25 'Hejaz: Relations with Egypt.' [32r] (63/259)
The record is made up of 1 file (127 folios). It was created in 28 Dec 1925-22 Apr 1937. 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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that recognition has already been accorded by the use of
full titles in the telegrams enclosed in my despatch under
reference, but I doubt this. The nearest precedent I can
recall is that of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, in which case it was
held that the use of titles in correspondence exchange in 1930
had constituted recognition and that no further preliminary of
the kind was required for the completion of the negotiations,
which culminated in the Saudi Iraq Treaty of April 7th 1931.
The correspondence in question was, however, between the rulers
of the two countries.
•5. In any case the question of recogntion is unlikely to
cause any further difficulty between Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
It is very significant that the negotiations between them have
been initiated so soon after the conclusion of the Saudi Iraq
Treaty of Islamic Brotherhood and Alliance of April 2nd, to
which it is hoped to make the Yemen also an acceding party;
and at a time when the French Government have been negotiating
with a Syrian nationalist delegation; not to mention the fact,
probably of less importance in this connexion, that His
Majesty's Government also are engaged in negotiations of capital
importance with the Egyptian Government. Everything points to
the conclusion that the Saudi Government, influenced doubtless
by the course of events in Europe and the hope that European
difficulties may rebound to the advantage of the Arab cause
generally, have plumped for the policy of something in the
nature of an alliance of independent Arab States, which might
in favourable circumstances concern itself with the affairs of
other Arab countries. It is true that the clauses, which
pointed most clearly in the latter direction, were omitted from
the recent Saudi Iraq Treaty; but this does not exclude the
possibility of attempts to increase the influence of the
independent states in the affairs of countries like Syria,
possibly/
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This file primarily concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz (later Saudi Arabia) and the Government of Egypt. Most of the correspondence is between the High Commissioner at Egypt (George Ambrose Lloyd, Sir Percy Loraine, and Miles Wedderburn Lampson successively) and various Foreign Office officials. Other correspondents include the British Agent and Consul at Jedda (Hugh Stonehewer Bird), His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill), His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard), and Colonial Office and 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. officials.
Matters discussed in the correspondence include the following:
- Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] wish to appoint a representative from the Hejaz in Egypt.
- Details of two Egyptian missions to the Hejaz during June-July 1928.
- Discussion as to whether King Fuad of Egypt should be pressed by the British Government to recognise Ibn Saud as King of the Hejaz.
- The progress of treaty negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt during April-May 1932, and the signing of a treaty of friendship on 7 May 1936, confirming Egypt's recognition of Saudi Arabia.
- British concerns regarding how a newly formed bloc of independent Arab powers might influence the nationalist aspirations of countries such as Syria and Palestine.
In addition to correspondence the file includes a copy of a decree of promulgation for the aforementioned treaty, together with a copy of the treaty itself. The French material in the file consists of several items of correspondence, newspaper extracts, and the decree and treaty mentioned above.
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.
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- 1 file (127 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 129; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 5-127; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- Coll 6/25 'Hejaz: Relations with Egypt.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:6v, 11r:13v, 15r:19v, 21r:26v, 29r:34v, 37r:40v, 42r:51v, 53r:54v, 56r:59v, 61r:70v, 73r:107v, 109r:129v, back
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