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Coll 6/50 'Saudi Arabia: Saudi Relations with the Soviet.' [14r] (27/100)
The record is made up of 1 file (48 folios). It was created in 6 Jun 1932-20 Jun 1938. 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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Kerim Khakimov arrived in Jedda on tde 6th August
1924* we is a Tartar from Ufa and a Moslem. he was
described by Mr. Consul Bullard as very young for the post
(about 31 or 32) but clever and an enthusiastic Communist,
he spoke Persian very well* besides Russian, Turkish and Turki
and was rapidly learning Arabic and French.
After a period of inaction he seems to have
indulged in violent anti-British propaganda and lost no
opportunity of preaching the mission of the Soviet Union to
liberate the East. His activities caused some concern to
the authorities in Egypt and the Sudan and his Majesty’s
high Commissioner in Cairo suggested that it might be advisable
to approach Ibn Saud with a view to the suppression of the
Soviet
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
. The Acting British Agent, however, expressed
the view that M. Khakimov’s propaganda was ineffective,
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that his drunkenness and general behaviour were such as to
warn off all but the most stupid and that it would therefore
be inadvisable to act on the high Commissioner’s suggestion.
M. Khakimov left Jedda on leave in October 1927.
In reporting his departure, Mr. Consul Stonehewer-Bird stated
that it was unlikely that he would return. he was unfit
to stand the climate and was unable to do anything in
moderation. he either drank himself into a nervous break
down or was a teetotaller.
Owing to the mishandling of a Soviet trade '’push'*
by the Charg4 d’Affaires, M. Khakimov was recalled to Jedda
in February 1928. he was worried and depressed over the
lack
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This file concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (Saudi Arabia from September 1932 onwards) and the Soviet Union. It largely consists of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) regarding Saudi-Soviet relations and the activities of Soviet representatives in Saudi Arabia. Other prominent correspondents include His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires to Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill), His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow (Esmond Ovey), and officials of the Foreign Office, 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.
Matters discussed in the correspondence include:
- The visit of the Hejazi delegation, headed by Emir Feisal [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd], Foreign Minister for the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd, to Moscow, and later, via Turkey, to Tiflis [Tbilisi] and Baku, in May-June 1932.
- Soviet trade interests in the Hejaz.
- Concerns expressed by Sir Andrew Ryan in July 1932 that the Soviet representative in Jedda could seek to consolidate Soviet relations with Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and encourage the latter to take a strong line regarding Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan .
- Unconfirmed reports of a Saudi-Soviet trade agreement in early 1933.
- Notes on the character and previous career in Jedda of the newly appointed (as of January 1936) Soviet minister at Jedda, Kerim Khakimov.
- News in May 1938 that the Government of the Soviet Union has decided to close its legations in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, reportedly as a gesture of disapproval of the Anglo-Italian Treaty [Anglo-Italian Agreement], but considered by the Foreign Office to be part of a general policy of reducing the number of its foreign contacts.
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 (48 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- 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 50; 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 present in parallel between ff 2-49; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Coll 6/50 'Saudi Arabia: Saudi Relations with the Soviet.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:37v, 40r:47v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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