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'File 1/A/38 V Saudi Arabian Frontier Negotiations' [170r] (346/510)
The record is made up of 1 volume (250 folios). It was created in 30 Dec 1937-18 Apr 1942. It was written in English. 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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i\ n
• “Q realise, however, Uiut the idea of arbitration
is In the present ease beset by many difficulties, Mach
may be summarised under the following heads*
iaj 2h© scope of the arbitration;
ib) The nature of the arbitration?
Co; The choice of the arbitrator; and
(u; - the moot important of all - The effect
of the offer or acceptance of arbitration
upon our relations with the Sheihh of Abu
Dhabi•
6. as regards (a;, we should clearly want to keep
the scope of any arbitration within as narrow limits as
possible• we might for instance start off by suggesting
to Ion laud that if he were willing to accept what we had
already offered for the rest of the South-Eastern frontier,
e.g. the uat&r section (including the loss of the Jebal
tfakhsh i , the rent of the Abu Dhabi section, the huscat
section anu the *oan A rotectorate section, we for our part
would be ‘willing to submit the question of the hhor-el-
Ode id to an independent judgment* it must be admitted,
however, that this might not seem a very tempting offer to
Saud. He might feel that he was being asked to accept
what we offered everywhere else in return for at the most
an even chance of getting what tie wanted rear the hhor-el-
Odeiu.
V. If this proved to be hi# attitude, it would be
uifficult to deny that the same principle which applied to
the unsettled problem of the Khor-el-Qdeid applied also to
the unsettled problem of the frontier as a whole, and that
for this as for other unsettmea problems arbitration was
the right course. It might therefore be necessary for us
to agree in the last resort that the whole frontier, if it
could not be settled otherwise, should be submitted to
arbitration;
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The volume concerns negotiations between the British and Saudi Arabian governments over the question of how to settle the eastern frontier of Saudi Arabia.
The principal correspondents are: HM Minister, Jedda (principally Sir Reader William Bullard); the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (principally Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle); officials of the 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. , the Government of India, and the Foreign Office; and the Saudi Arabian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Amir Faisal [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]).
The papers cover: the attitude of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to the frontier question; the boundary with Qatar; the boundary with Abu Dhabi; the British maintenance of the Blue Line as the frontier; the activities of the California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) in the area, including allegations of encroachment by the company to the east of the Blue Line (folios 104-105); the status of Khor al Odeid and Jabal Naksh, and their possible cession to Saudi Arabia; the effect on negotiations of British policy in Palestine; and the activities of Petroleum Concessions Limited, including the need to guard against encroachment upon the southern boundary of the company's concession (folio 229).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (250 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the back of the file, except where enclosures of an earlier date are filed after their relevant covering letter, and terminate in a set of notes (folios 237-249).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 252; 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 also present in parallel between ff 10-252; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/R/15/2/161
- Title
- 'File 1/A/38 V Saudi Arabian Frontier Negotiations'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:138v, 138ar:138av, 139r:211v, 214r:214v, 216r:220v, 222r:224v, 226r:226v, 228r:231v, 233r:251v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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