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Coll 6/10 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Financial Situation and Internal Situation' [519v] (1045/1310)
The record is made up of 1 volume (649 folios). It was created in 21 Jun 1928-26 Aug 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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6. It would be too cynical to suggest that Ibn Sand is offering to His
Majesty’s Government a “ pure and virgin " love for a consideration. He is not
himself cynical or brazen enough foi that. ^ nioie liKe the maiden of
pantomime in a snowstorm, but proudly conscious of a station, a beauty and a
virtue that, given their chance, must cause her to be loved and honourably set up
in life for her own sake. There are Christmas parties behind the windows thati,
‘dimmer through the snow, and she would like to be taken into the nicest of those
houses—yours, Sir. The maiden feels, if I may pursue a fancy not entirely idle
that you should not count on those Hashimite girls whom you are already'enter
taining, pretentious hussies who are with you for what they can get and will want
more. 1 How much happier you would be with me, says the maiden
unconsciously vain in her conscious virtue. " And oh, how happy should I be
too! ”
7. I have tried to illustrate by a flippant example what I conceive to he
Ibn Baud's attitude, because I think it reveals it better than pages of solemn
analysis. He is not insincere, but he is fairly desperate at the moment and quite
unpractical. He admitted towards the end of our conversation on the 17th Tune
that the questions he had asked me to put to His Majesty’s Government were too
hypothetical to be answerable. That does not mean that he will not expect some
sort of an answer. I do not see what His Majesty’s Government can do to help
him. Political commitments to him, except those of a purely negative kind, seem
to be out of the question. It was decided two years ago that there could be no
question of a renewal of direct financial assistance. He hinted then at a request
for bread, and he was offered a common form of commercial treaty. I can only
leave you to consider whether there is any form of kindness which His Majesty’s
Government could show him without prejudice to their obligations elsewhere and
without spending money. I am telegraphing about one point only, that of the
possibility of getting a British bank to help him, because that is a concrete
proposal, though it seems to me as unpractical as all the rest.
I have, &c.
ANDREW RYAN.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
(A) Conversation with Fuad Bey Hamza on June 13.
11 AD BEY HAMZA spoke to me at length on the 13th June regarding the
general state of relations between Ibn Baud and His Majesty’s Government, with
somewhat special reference to the effect thereon of my personal position vis-a-vis
of His Majesty. He had meditated his statement for some time and it was
carefully considered.
2. Fuad Bey spoke of the object of my mission. The King’s wish to see a
British Legation established here was dictated by a desire to have at his Court
a representative of such standing that he could represent His Majesty’s point of
\iew to His Majesty’s Government and speak on their behalf with authority,
enjoying a greater latitude in the discussion of affairs than could be expected in
the case of a junior official. Fuad Bey stressed the importance of personal
factors, and expressed a desire to restore mv relations with the King to their
former friendly footing.
3. Fuad Bey traced the history of Ibn Baud’s relations with His Majesty s
Government. They had originated as far back as thirty years ago, when the King
was the guest of Sheikh Mubarak of Koweit. The policy of His Majesty’s
WaS f avoura ble to Mubarak at a time when the Turks were backing
! bn Rashid. At that time and afterwards they had lent their moral support to
Tn Baud Their relations with him were strengthened during the Great War.
A had been concluded at that time, establishing relations of such a nature
nat His Majesty had accepted a kind of vassalage of Great Britain, to which it
was unnecessary now to look back, as that situation had been ended by the Treaty
of Jedda m 1927.
tt- f 1 i^dly relations, kuad Bev said, had passed through periods when
fns Majesty s Government seemed cooler or even antagonistic. They had
supported King Hussein in the dispute over Taraba and Khurma in 1918-19.
Ibn Rashid had been given support from the Iraq side before his death in 1921,
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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)
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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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