File 2182/1913 Pt 9 'Arabia Policy towards Bin Saud' [‎149r] (295/406)

-cul^es^Me^seem t^me to^sei^th^path^f H^M^’s^G^ 11110 ^ * u P.^ le
dealmgs with Arabia in words more oregnL^ mo^e pTop“eticXn‘tl tUre
winch appear on page 203 of Mr. G. %map Bury’s ” A rb?a InfelL“ tI “ Se '
^^ef rntTra^Trrd,^iner';?^
with overt force among- warlike races for the mere f to su PP? rt
ance will create enemies for him until he " 0^03 a solf^'w^ aSSist '
ductor for political storms and his suzerain gets the shock.” 8 1 111118 COn ~
It is with some diffidence that I venture on an exnositinn nf qi
• scheme of things as I am conscious of ree-ardim? 1?L flf ° 1 at -a Sharif 8
cles as the embodiment of an unrealisnblp irfp.J 8 l + rough ^vajdean specta-
of hearing .from his own lip^his Janl forlL^rLonsTruction oi 1™^
universe, his irreducible minimum of the reouirementf n? ^ Ara 5
• something of the methods, by which he hopeX wSk outlbl ! 1 Sltl J atlon /^ d
Arab race; at the same time I have seen hin? from ^ t • j sal 7^ lon of tlle
inspbeTr'tlfe Sh^if C ?alLd ll fr 0r i lffm f ° f reVolt a ? d the motives whicI >
7 p oliarit talked freely of certain mysterious documents Itt
IrZTnT’ottr^rr^-l^ 1 8b,e ' te ?<*^ an“^tion
appeared to be reason to doubt. ' Thost Xcumenlr hTdedared whlch , . ther f
ns charter of rights; he would produc: ?h°eTat the p^hXta m“
plighted 0 ™™^ the Brltish G ° TCrament -ver°|o baetZ 6 "^
By implication he suggested that these documents contained a recoD-uitim,
' when a f X °A be * he ^ ’ to tllat cl aim effejrwould bSn
when all the Arab nations were freed of the Turkish domination whichmili’
mt^ a rl th t e f 1Ste ^ Ce 4 ra 1 b unit y; the restricted title of <f Kino- 0 f the
ijaz, to which alone the British Government had publiclv committed itself
was a meaningless phantom, unacceptable to himself f he recognS that mino;
modifications of policy might supervene, were, ind^d, TneSl e ^
case of Palestine newly conquered: nevertheless, he would not -rest content
with anything less than the substantial recognition of his main ambition inrl
m the event o his failure to secure that, he would prefer holu^able Xe:
ment, under the aegis of the British Government, to a limited sovereicntv
Meanwlnie he pressed for two things—firstly, that, so far as possible we should
cofiuetting with other Arab elements than himself, any dealino- s
with such independent Arab potentates, as the Idrisi ond Thn q Q i lr I h • 'i
cu ated to render the fructification of his plan: mt^dlfflcult inttl^Znct
nnr^ ftt had / 1S S 7 hei 7 e cu . t an . d dr - v for removing all obstacles from his and
paths, when the termination of the war with Turkey should leave him
tW +1 turn . lus atte ntion elsewhere: and, secondly, that,' it beino- necessarv
tKit the various Arab races should have some tangible ideal of unitv ^ tn
which to educate themselves and on which to concentrate their oftenV ^ i
reXrrafo hi e ffi Self Th SUme - d titl ? °f “ omellab^uS^ S
he thought, no more difficult to become King of the Arabs by being so addressed
than to earn the right to such an address by becoming King of the Habs
±5e that as it may, H.M. s Government, in spite of repeated reoresentn
tions by the King, found themselves unable to give way on the auesGon of
use^o/ tb 118 11 S ° + I ar - aS J 5 n °. W ’ th . ey raised no formal objection to his continued
use of the unauthorised designation m Ins official correspondence—the matter
was of little import except that, whereas Ibn Sand mi^ht conceivabl^ W
brought himself to recognise the title of - King of thf Hijaz ” he made a
the^h 1 ?f m f’ M n SPlte i ° f m L re P resentatioil s on the subject, of replvin^ to
the Sharif of Mecca when addressed by the King of the Arab Countries On
in re^ 1 ^ b -S W M Ver ’ Government’s modification of their ideas
respect of the Hail operations substantially conceded the Kino-’s claim to
be the sole recipient of Government’s high consideration and largfsse
,, -i. ^ a ® on foe attempt to obtain recognition of his temporal nositirm tbof
W liSfewns* 16 ^ h - S ener ^ ies and > 80 f ar as I remem-
TW +1 * said at the Jidda conversations on the subject of the Gal'ifate
a„ to him presented no difficulty; he would take it in his stride - his spiritual
able^n St cn^tb''Wf 11 / 1 ^ d ^ cendants °f Prophet was incontest-
•succe4or nf fbt Q Cal / fate oot be refused by the faithful to the
Islamic nnwar- • ^ ur ^ e y JT He r°le of the greatest independent
various mir+ f +f Ped f be na ™ e 9^ Husain ibn Ali was alreadv beginning, in
anous parts of the world, to fill the gap once occupied by that'of the Ottoman