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PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.' [36r] (71/96)
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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(Here I shall use the King’s words as near as possible
using the first person plural for the most part).
”We are aware 0 Dickson that you are no longer a Govern
ment Official, but as you have held high and honourable
post under His Majesty’s Government for many years, we
know also that you are trusted by your Government, and
so not only do we make you doubly welcome, but we feel
we can open our heart to you, and we are glad that you
have been able to visit us in our capital.”
”We are most anxious that the British Government should
send us every eight months or so, an experienced officer
whom they trust, or equally well an ex-official like
yourself, who can listen personally to what we have on
our minds, and what troubles our hearts, for times are
deeply serious and full of danger these days, fe feel
that personal contact of such a nature will be far more
efficatious, than any amount of letter writing or tele
graphic representations: The latter though well enough
in themselves must nearly always fail to convey the full
meaning of our thoughts and anxieties, and if anything
will tend rather to breed misunderstanding and mis
conception than remove same. But such person, if and
when he is sent us must be thoroughly conversant with
our language (Arabic), and must understand the wider
meaning of our beautiful tongue which is so full of
parable and expressive phrase. It is no use sending a
man who has to listen to what we have to say through the
medium of an interpreter. The person sent should know
and understand our Arab phsycology, be conversant If
possible with our Arabian manners and customs, and above
all should be acquainted with our Arab pride and our
hopes, and have read something of God’s Holy Word, as
vouchafed to us in our Blessed Koran.”
”0 Dickson when will your London Government realize
that v/e Arabs by our very nature can be bought body
and soul by an act of kindness, and vice versa become
implacable enemies for all time of those who treat us
harshly or deal unjustly with us.”
”To-day we and our subjects are deeply troubled over
this Palestine question, and the cause of our disquiet
and anxiety is the strange attitude of your British
Government, and the still more strange hypnotic
influence which the Jews, a race accursed by God accord
ing to His Holy Book, and destined to final destruction
and eternal damnation hereafter, appear to weild over
them and the English people generally”.
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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)
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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
- Title
- PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.'
- Pages
- 32r:44v, 47r:47v
- Author
- Dickson, Harold Richard Patrick
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- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/12/245
- Title
- PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.'
- Pages
- 35r:40v, 42r:43v
- Author
- Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal (xx Ibn Saud)
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- Public Domain