Coll 6/10 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Financial Situation and Internal Situation' [209r] (424/1310)
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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
E AS TEEN (Arabia).
CONFIDENTIAL.
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January 3, 1934.
Section 2 .
No. 1.
M?\ Calvert to Sir John Simon—(Received January 3, 1934.)
(No. 360.)
^ r ’ Jedda, December 12,
WIIH reference to my despatch No. 352 of the 5th instant, relative to the
visit ot an Egyptian commercial and financial mission, under the leadership of
laJaat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Xarb, to this country, I have the honour to report that the members
of the mission left by air for Yenbu on the morning of the 10th December,
intending to journey by car thence to Medina and, returning the second day, to
resume their flight to Egypt.
2. Ihe programme followed whilst they were in this country conformed
closely to that reported in my despatch under reference. Talaat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Narb
left Jedda by car on the 6th December for Mecca, where he was entertained bv
Amir Feisal, Sheikh Abdullah Suleiman and Sheikh Abdullah-bin-Muhammad-el-
Fadhl, and returned on the 8th, when he dined with Mr. and Mrs. Philby.
3. The results of the visit, in so far as they are known, or partially known,
may be stated under the following heads :—
(a) Banque Misr. —I am informed by the manager of Messrs. Gellatly,
Hankey and Co. (Sudan) (Limited), that his firm have been given, for the time
being, the
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
of the Banque Misr as regards its purely banking business.
Mr. Warner expressed the opinion, however, that it would not be long before the
Banque Misr established a branch of their own in this country.
(b) Local Representation for Pilgrim Ships. —It is understood that this has
been given to the local firm of Messrs. Haji Abdullah Ali Ridha. It was stated
on the 8th December that, although no written agreement had at the time been
signed, yet Talaat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Narb had definitely promised the representation of this
shipping interest to the local firm. Mr. Warner, in this connexion, stated that
his firm had been given the handling of the money of Egyptian pilgrims, probably
qua agents of the Banque Misr.
(c) Pilgrimage by Air from Egypt. —It is believed that this question has
received some consideration during the stay of the mission, though I am unaware
of the result, if any. I have received Ihe impression that the Saudi Arab
Government have not proved very receptive to this idea.
(d) Sale of Egyptian Products—l am not at present in possession of
information on the activities of the mission in regard to the organisation of the
sale of Egyptian products. The gratis distribution of such goods, to which I
referred in my last despatch, was, I find, not confined ^o the poor alone, but was
liberally used as commercial ground-bait in business circles as well. 4
4. I am sending copies of this despatch to the Principal Secretaiy of State
for Foreign Affairs, Department ol Overseas Trade, and to His Majesty s High
Commissioner in Cairo. . 0
I have, &c.
A. S. CALVERT.
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This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) or His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), relates to financial and political matters in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia).
The correspondence discusses the following:
- The history of the Wahabi movement and Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] attitude towards Wahabism.
- The currency exchange crisis in the Hejaz.
- Requests from Ibn Saud for the British Government either to assist in establishing a British bank as a state bank in the Hejaz, or to provide a loan directly to the Hejazi Government (both requests are declined).
- The British Minister at Jedda's accounts of his meetings both with Ibn Saud and with various Hejazi/Saudi Government officials.
- A Hejazi-Soviet contract for the supply of Soviet benzine and relations between Soviet Russia and Hejaz-Nejd generally.
- Tensions within the Hejazi Government.
- The Hejazi Government's budgetary reforms.
- The prospect of a new Saudi state bank, possibly backed by the financial assistance of the former ex-Khedive of Egypt [ʿAbbās Ḥilmī II].
- The death of Emir Abdullah ibn Jiluwi [‘Abdullāh bin Jilūwī Āl Sa‘ūd].
- Saudi-Egyptian relations.
- The discovery of oil in Hasa.
In addition to correspondence the volume includes the following:
- A copy of an economic survey of Saudi Arabia, produced by the British Legation at Jedda in June 1936.
- A copy of a note written by Frederick Gerard Peake, Commanding Officer of the Arab Legion, on the history of the Wahabi movement.
- A copy of a printed Government of India report entitled 'Confidential Report of the Haj Inquiry Committee on the Arrangements in the Hedjaz', dated 1930.
- A copy of a report by 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe), recounting a visit to Ibn Saud at Hasa in early 1932.
- Copies of extracts from Kuwait intelligence summaries and Bahrain intelligence reports.
The volume includes three dividers, which give a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 volume (649 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 651; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 563-649 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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