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Coll 6/1 'Hejaz-Nejd: Franco-Hejaz-Nejd Treaty and Relations Hejaz-Syria Treaty.' [15r] (29/110)
The record is made up of 1 file (53 folios). It was created in 18 Feb 1926-16 Dec 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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
EASTERN ( Arabia).
CONFIDENTIAL.
December 31, 1934.
Section 4.
[E 7796/714/25} No. L
Mr. Calvert to Sir John Simon.—(Received December 31.)
(No. 365.)
Sir, Jedda, December 9, 1934.
I HAVE the honour to inform you that my French colleague, M. Roger
Maigret, who, as you are aware, is Charge d’Affaires en litre of the French
consulate here, informed me in the course of conversation yesterday that his
Government now proposed to raise their mission in Saudi Arabia to the status
of a Legation. Budgetary provision had been made, and he expected the change
to date from the 1st January next. He stated, in answer to my enquiry, that the
head of the post would hold the rank of Minister, and that he would remain on
in that capacity. On my congratulating him, he explained that although he
understood privately that his appointment had been contemplated by his Ministry
in any case, yet Fuad Bey Hamza had interested himself with the French
Government to secure his selection. The elevation of the French representation
here, and the appointment of M. Maigret, may well have been, although the latter
did not say so, amongst the questions discussed with the French Government by
Fuad Bey Hamza during his recent visit to Europe.
2. M. Maigret, who, as is his wont, has remained virtually invisible during
the summer, is again becoming locomotive, as he proposes to leave Jedda within
a few days for a three weeks’ visit to the Yemen. Upon his return from Sana, he
hopes, before the Haj, to pay a brief visit to Syria to meet the High Commissioner
there.
3. I am sending copies of this despatch to His Majesty’s Chief
Commissioner at Aden and His Majesty’s consul-general at Beirut.
I have, &c.
A. S. CALVERT.
[281 hh—4]
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This file primarily concerns relations between France and the Hejaz-Nejd (later Saudi Arabian) Government.
The beginning of the file relates to treaty negotiations between France and Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] Hejaz-Nejd Government, as well as negotiations between the Hejaz-Nejd Government and the French mandated territories in Syria. It contains copies of letters (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from British diplomatic officials reporting on events and on meetings with their French counterparts. The file includes the following:
- Reports of a proposed appointment of a French representative at the court of Ibn Saud.
- Reports on the progression of the treaty negotiations.
- Reports on the contents of the signed treaties (referred to in the correspondence as the Franco-Hejazi Treaty and the Syro-Hejazi Agreement respectively) and of how they compare with the Treaty of Jedda of 1927 [the most recent treaty between Ibn Saud and the United Kingdom].
- Copies of the agreements (in French).
- Reports of the raising of the French Consulate at Jedda to the status of a Legation.
The principal correspondents are His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires, Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), and the British Minister at Jedda, Andrew Ryan. The French material in this file consists of the aforementioned agreements and accompanying correspondence.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (53 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 55; 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 6/1 'Hejaz-Nejd: Franco-Hejaz-Nejd Treaty and Relations Hejaz-Syria Treaty.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:33v, 36r:36v, 40r:43v, 45r:54v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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