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Coll 6/52 'Saudi Arabia: Anti-Saudi activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh' [‎9r] (17/321)

The record is made up of 1 file (159 folios). It was created in 30 Jun 1932-6 Jul 1936. 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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No. 2951/^38^20.
L f^egntion,
L '- 225 ;. «««••
1936 ^ j h ; ece * al3er
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ith reference to Culvert*e despeteh , o.33S of
November i)5th f I have the honour to state that the timm
al MPa of hoveraber 2ftth published a speech deiivei*cd by
MuhaneiAd Tahir , d-*Jaboagh before King Abdul zlz at
Riyadh. Thie speech f which is in the nature of a pious
recantation of p&et errors, is not worth reproducing It
way § however, be of interest to record that Tahir rd—
Uabbagh was presented to me by i?uad Bey Bmm at the race- 1
meeting at Riyadh at which I was present on Ifoveraber 25th
and that he waa a guest at the dinners given in my honour
by the King and the Crown I rinse on that and the following
evening,
Fuad Bey was fbll of "ischievous glee v.hen he
effected the introduction at the races, I told 4-Babbagh
tnat I wue glad to see him buck in his o n country and hoped
he would long remain in Itj adding that, if he had come
back sooner, he would have saved me a great deal of trouble,
^ eh aped man of perhaps about 45 with slightly
converging eyes and. sakes no impression of strength, • is
relative eussya Ad^babbsgh is probably hotter stuff and X
t ink there is :ome disappointment that he has not uleo
returned eo far to the .iauui fold*
3. hen speaking privately to Fund Bey about the
return of Tahir and connseted matters, 1 took an opportunity
of impressing on hiH the seriousness of the ef orts made
The Right honourable
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This file contains correspondence discussing the reported activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh [Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Dabbagh, former Hashimite finance minister in the Hejaz] and other persons referred to as 'anti-Saudi consipirators'. It documents their movements in political exile and their eventual return to Saudi Arabia, following the Saudi Government's granting of a general amnesty to political émigrés in January 1935.

Much of the file's correspondence, which largely consists of copies of letters received by the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, is concerned with the movements of Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh and another Saudi political exile, Muhammad Abdulla Ahmed Sadiq [Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh Ahmed Sadiq], during 1933-1934. It reports on the pair's visit to (and subsequent expulsion from) India, and discusses whether the Government of India has powers to prevent the two men from entering foreign countries such as Iraq or Eritrea.

Other notable anti-Saudi figures discussed in the correspondence include Abdul Raouf Sabban [‘Abd al-Ra‘uf al-Sabban], Abdul Hamid al Khatib [‘Abd al-Ḥamīd al-Khaṭīb, former envoy of Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], and Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh's brother, Husain [Ḥusayn Ṭāhir al-Dabbagh].

The file features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); 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. , and later, Chief Commissioner, Aden (Bernard Rawdon Reilly); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the High Commissioner, Cairo (Percy Loraine, succeeded by Miles Wedderburn Lampson); Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh; the Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]; officials of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, 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. , and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folio 2).

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1 file (159 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 160; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 2-159, and ff 123-149; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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