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'File 1/A/38 V Saudi Arabian Frontier Negotiations' [183r] (372/510)
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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which Ibn Saud recently put forward to the Foreign Office
this question was not included (vide letter dated the 2nd
January 1^39 from Ibn Saud to Mr.Chamberlain, enclosure
to
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.
Printed Letter ho.P.Z.1327 of the 7th
March 1^39; you have not received this communication
but I will bring the file with me to Bahrain). It is
quite possible that the Saudi Government are no longer
their own at Has Tanura (vide my letter ho.723-£"elated
the 16th December 1938 to the Government of India).
(b) Kis Majesty's Government has no legal right
to submit the question of the ownership of Khor el odeid
to arbitration without the consent of the Shaikh of Abu
Dhabi, and if His Majesty's Government finally decided
to submit this question to arbitration this could not be
done unless the Shaikh's consent had been obtained.
Should the Shaikh refuse we would then have to inform
him that should Ibn Saud take Khor el Odeid by force we
would not oppose him. On the other hand if Ibn Saud
refused arbitration then we would be bound to oppose any
attempt by him to forcibly occupy Khor el Odeid - should
he make it (This, as I understand it is the gist of para
graphs 17 and 20 of the Foreign Office letter quoted
above, which at first sight appear contradictory).
(c) Apart from the legal point of view the
practical political results of arbitration over a piece of
territory which we had recognized as belonging to a
particular Shaikh w r ould be deplorable whichever way the
arbitration went, since of course none of the Rulers of the
Arab Coast, or for the matter of that, of the Arabs
outside the Gulf, would appreciate the legal technicalities
interested in Khor el Odeid since they have
produced
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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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