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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
Printed for the use of the Foreign Office.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(14893)
SAUDI ARABIA.
Copy "No.
Annuiil Report, 1935.
[E 1538/1538/23]
Sir A. Ryan to Mr. Eden.—(Received March 21.)
(No. 64.)
Sir, Jedda, February 29, 1936.
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith my annual report on Saudi Arabia
for 1935. It has been necessary to devote a good deal of space to the relations
of this country with Great Britain and Italy, and I have thought it desirable, in
view of recent developments, to devote special attention to the relations between
Ibn Saud and his neighbours on the north-east and east. I have included a short
new section on public health.
2. The members of my staff have helped me greatly in the compilation of
the report. In particular, Mr. A. S. Calvert has contributed a portion of
Section IV, and his reports during my absence have been of even greater value
than usual, as he had the handling of important and difficult questions during the
autumn. It is largely due to the energy of my outer Chancery staff that I am
able to despatch the report earlier than usual. Mr. W. J. Nimmo has done the
whole of the typing in a short space of time, with assistance in the way of
dictation from Mr. R. V. Hall.
3. I should like also to acknowledge my indebtedness on this and previous
occasions to the authors of the various intelligence reports forwarded to me by
the British authorities in the surrounding countries. I have been asked privately
whether I saw any objection to the inclusion of information about Saudi Arabia
in certain of these reports. Such is very far from being the case. I can
sometimes check or assess the value of such information, but much would escape
me altogether in a post so peculiarly placed as Jedda if the writers of the reports
in question were not good enough to record such facts or even rumours as come
to their notice in connexion with this country.
I have, &c.
ANDREW RYAN.
Enclosure.
Annual Report on Saudi Arabia for 1935.
Contents.
Paragraph
Paragraph
I.—Introduction ...
1
II.—Foreign relations (contd .)—
(A) With States in Arabia (contd .)—
II.—Foreign relations—
(5) Muscat and Oman
28
(A) With States in Arabia—
( 6 ) Trucial sheikhdoms and Qatar
29
(1) Iraq
7
(7) Bahrein
41
(2) Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan
... 18
( 8 ) Koweit and the Koweit neutral
(3) Yemen
... 24
zone
45
(4) Hadhramaut ...
... 27
(9) General
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