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Coll 6/36(2) 'Nejd-Transjordanian Frontier Affairs' [‎102r] (210/996)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (495 folios). It was created in 12 Nov 1932-20 Apr 1933. 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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spectacular than If no such meeting had taken place* Wpuld
it not he hotter to keep the possibility of a meeting of
rulers up our sleeves as a means of repairing the effects
of a failure to achieve a settlement hy the treaty nego
tiations now in view?
Poreona .i&cuaed of
12 * 1 did not go into the details of the question of
conspirators outside the Amir 1 * immediate entourage. 1
verified up to date the list of persons excluded hy name
from Trans-Jordan. The six names on this list are the
same as six out of seven given me in Cairo, the seventh
person on the Cairo list being one of the ABU nj<pT<lA 8 .
Colonel Cox was practically certain that the list of
persons excluded from Palestine was the same as for Trans-
Jordan. I emphasized the desirability of making the
exclusion orders effective and of restricting hy all
possible means the movements of conspirators. 1 cited
the case of Abdur Baouf Sabban who, having been dismissed
and relegated to Iraq, left for Baghdad at his own con
venience on November 28th, was in Jerusalem on December
17th, and subsequently turned up in Kgypt. Colonel Cox
told me that this man had gone back to Iraq via Byria,
having been refused permission to pass through Trans-Jordan.
13. I discussed more closely the question of the hnir
Shaker and Hamid Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. el Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. . My riew was that there
could be no reasonable doubt of their guilt. I agreed
that it might be difficult to convict them in a court of
law but urged that no public or high commercial person t e
anywhere en joyed security of tenure on that ground, if He
was seriously oomproaisod in connexion with undesirable
activities. I explained how difficult it had been to
defend in Jedda the apparent tolerance shewn to these two
persons

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This volume, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns affairs on the Nejd- 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 frontier and relations between Saudi Arabia and 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 generally.

The volume's correspondence follows on from IOR/L/PS/12/2102, documenting the British Government's efforts both to secure mutual recognition between Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and Amir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī], and to initiate treaty negotiations between 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 and Saudi Arabia.

The correspondence includes discussion of the following matters:

The volume features the following principal correspondents: the High Commissioner, 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 (Arthur Grenfell Wauchope); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill); the British Resident, 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 (Charles Henry Fortnom Cox); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the Commanding Officer of the Arab Legion (Frederick Gerard Peake); the Commanding Officer of the Desert Patrol (Captain John Bagot Glubb); officials of the Foreign Office and Colonial Office.

In addition to correspondence, the volume includes the following:

The material in this volume dates from November 1932 to April 1933, with the exception of a copy of a letter from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir John Simon), which dates from August 1932.

The volume includes two 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 (495 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 495; 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 also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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