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PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.' [10r] (19/96)
The record is made up of 1 file (48 folios). It was created in 18 Aug 1937-26 Feb 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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The Hejaz Rai lway._
The railway was built in 19C0 by the late
Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey and was partly financed
by voluntary subscriptions. It passed out of Turkish
control after the ^ar and so far as H.M.G. are concerned
the status of the railway is now governed by the
Governments at a meeting of the Economic and financial
Commission of the Lausanne Conference held on 27th
January 19 23.
has been unable to accept this declaration.
The sections of the railway passing through Syria
and the
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
still remain open, but both are
Arabia has been unworkable for nearly twenty years.
In 1925 King Ibn Baud raised the question of the
repair and opening up of the whole of the railway and
as a result of discussion with the French Government he
was invited by the two Governments jointly to send
delegates to a Conference to discuss purely technical
questions connected with the railway. The invitation
was accepted and the Conference duly met at Haifa in
August 1928, but at the first meeting the Saudi delegate
until the question of the ownership and unity of the
railway had been first determined. As H.M.G. and the
French Government regarded this question as decided by
the Lausanne declaration referred to above ana as the
Saudi delegate refused to change his attitude it was
impossible to proceed.
Nothing further of importance happened until in
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The file consists of correspondence and other papers mainly relating to the private visit of Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his three private conversations with King Ibn Saud.
It includes correspondence between John Charles Walton, 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 Dickson, including a letter from Walton to Dickson of 2 November 1937 enclosing a summary of Dickson’s three private conversations with Ibn Saud, in which the views of Ibn Saud on Palestine and relations with the British Government are quoted (folios 33-44). The file also includes correspondence between Walton and the following concerning the visit: George William Rendel, Foreign Office; Sir Findlater Stewart, 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 M J Clauson, 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. .
There is also correspondence between 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. and the Secretary of State for India, and between H. Lacy Baggallay, Foreign Office, and M J Clauson, 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. .
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- 1 file (48 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 48; 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.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/245
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- PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:11v, 15r:16v, 20r:20v, 23r:24v, 27r:31v, 45r:46v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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