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on both sides and the desirability of giving effect to article 3 of the Hadda
Agreement; refused to admit any disclaimer of future responsibility; and
enumerated the measures already taken and now proposed on the 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
side. These included :—
(1) The continued utilisation of the Bedouin Control Board already in
existence.
(2) The mechanisation of one company of the 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 Frontier horce.
(3) The closing to Bedouin of an area between the eastern and southern
frontiers of 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 and Bair, Jaffar and Tell Shahem.
(4) The stationing of armoured car detachments and aircraft at the few
water-points in the Southern Desert of 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 and intensive
reconnaisance work by aircraft.
(5) A declaration by the Amir Abdullah as to the punishment of tribes who
raided, or instigated raiding, or withheld information about raids.
(6) Powers of arrest given to British detachments patrolling the frontier area
and stationed at the water-points.
(7) The appointment of a British intelligence officer on the establishment of
the Arab Legion with powers to ensure respect for the decisions of the
Bedouin Control Board, of which he would be a member.
(8) The establishment of two advance intelligence posts at Azrak and
Imshash (Bir Nam), the stationing of an intelligence detachment in
the old Turkish fort near Mudawwara, and their provision with
wireless apparatus.
31. Up to the end of the year the British memorandum remained
unanswered, except for a petulant interim reply complaining that His Majesty’s
Government placed more confidence in the reports of authorities in 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
and Iraq than they did in information vouched for by the Hejazi Ministry for
Foreign Affairs and a sinister semi-justification of Nejdi raids, as being of a
retaliatory character, in a note dealing with a particular matter and not directly
referring to the memorandum. It was considered best in London that the matter
should be pursued orally on the return of His Majesty’s Minister to Jedd.a, but
the breakdown of the Hejazi Government’s foreign affairs arrangements (see
paragraph 113) made it impossible to take any action in this sense up to the end
of December.
32. At the end of the year both sides were in a state of extreme exasperation.
Ibn Saud was working up every sort of grievance and was elaborating a theory,
which was not new in its elements, but which early in 1931 assumed a shape
perhaps more definite than had been given to it before. It was that His Majesty’s
Government were not merely shirking their responsibility by their alleged failure
to take effective measures to restrain the 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 tribes, but were actually
contributing to the continuance of raiding by interposing themselves between
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 and Hejaz-Nejd. The 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 tribes, the King contended,
were encouraged by the knowledge that he and his tribesmen could not take their
own vengeance without embroiling him with Great Britain. He violently
resented, moreover, the appointment to the new post created in pursuance of the
British memorandum of Captain Glubh, who had been previously employed in
the Southern Desert of Iraq and to whose proceedings there Ibn Saud had in the
past taken exception.
33. In 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 , on the other hand, great resentment had been aroused
by a raid from Nejd shortly after the MacDonnell enquiry had begun, a thing
which is held to be entirely contrary to the rules of the game as ordinarily observed
among tribes and by three large-scale raids in October, which deprived the
Howaitat tribe of so many camels that they were said to be in the direst misery at
the end of the year.
34. A minor question affecting Nejd and 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 is that of certain
Druze refugees, who for some time previous to 1930 were settled in Nejd in close
vicinity to the 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 frontier. An unacceptable application made in 1929
by their leader Sultan Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. el Atrash for permission to settle in 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
raised the question of their disposal, either by an arrangement with Ibn Saud to
move them further into Nejd or an alternative arrangement which would enable