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'File 1/A/38 V Saudi Arabian Frontier Negotiations' [175r] (356/510)
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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19. Having aaia tui a much 1 ought to explain that
U iB onXy in re « aru to alliern«Uve (1) in paragraph 3
that we put for*aru the propositiona •nucoiated in the
last Tew paragraphs.
£J0. 5 * c are e-<ivi aed that, il the position is that I bn
^■aua cares to aispute the legal title of the Sheikh of Abu
Dhabi arid to cA&isi that he is in law the owner of the
territory, the 1906 pledge cannot possibly ^e&n that we are
bound to resist Ibn Saud*® claim by force and to refuse to
submit tiie legal question at issue to arbitration, which
would be the normal ecuran. fo do so would be quite
inconsistent with the professions which w© have made of
our attachment to the principle ox the pacific settlement
of international disputes.
«-x• But we are also advised that the position is
different if the arbitrator is free to take other than legal
considerations into account, since in that case the
arbitrator might decide that the Sheikh was the legal owner
of the territory, and yet decide in favour of Ibn „aud on
grounds which he considered to outweigh* the purely legal
aspect. We do not claim that we could, consistently with
the 1906 pledge, make the Sheikh agree to an arbitration
which might produce this result.
-B. .Alternative {1} must therefore be explored and
this also has its difficulties.
&3* In particular, ibn S'mud might contend that in the
circumstances an arbitration confined to purely legal
principles would not be fair? and even if he aid
eventually accept the idea, it might bo necessary,
especially in view of the peculiar local conditions, to
lay down certain legal principle® on which the decision
was to be based. fhere might be great difficulty in
agreeing upon those principles, especially as it might well <
be/
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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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- 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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