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Coll 6/45 'Nejd-Transjordan Frontier Affairs.' [‎32r] (70/1040)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (515 folios). It was created in 25 Feb 1933-21 Mar 1935. 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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o. 728/220/23
19th March 1934.
(My dear Humphry a),
Many thanks for your letter of March 3 enclosing
a copy of your letter to Oliphant of February 26 about
alleged Intrigues against Ibn Ca’ud and your correspondence
with him. This clears up one point on which I see that I
went wrong. I thought that the letter from Ibn Se'fcd
)^(T^ mentioned in your telegram To. 1 of March 2 was one to King
Ghezi. As a matter of fact I do not myself attach much
importance to Ibn Salad’s p olltes, os . I think that he is
satisfied with his recent relations with ’Iraq but still
mistrusts all Has hi mi tea. At present he is even more
mistrustful of the Imam Yshya but even in his case he
ordinarily uses civil and indeed friendly language.
As for me, it bore me to tears to have to spend
good British money on telegrams about these recurrent
scares but it is the only way of keeping the Saudis quiet
and lessening the danger of their thinking, as many of them
do, that we ourselves are hostile to Ibn Sa’ud. lou will
see by the copy I am sending you of my official despatch
to the Foreign Office No. 73 o.f March 18 that they are still
worried about Hasan Khalid Abul Hud© but have not returned
to the charge about the Hashimite rulers end ex-ruler. iiom
what you and Weuchope say it looks as though these three were
being duly cautious.
Meanwhile, all that really matters here at the
moment 1b the Seudi-Yemen situation. It again looks es though
war might break out but both sides hsve shown such
unwillingness to go over the top that they may compromise.
The
F.K# Humphry s, G.C.M.G. [Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade). , G.-.t.O.,
etc., ete., etc.,
r, British Fmbassy,
Bagdad.

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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 Amir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī] and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd].

Much of the correspondence is concerned with the progress of 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 (including discussion regarding the precise wording of the text of the treaty) and with arrangements for the ratification of the concluded treaty (signed in Jerusalem on 27 July 1933). Other subjects of discussion include the following:

In addition to correspondence the volume includes the following: copies of a draft treaty of friendship 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 ; extracts from 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 political situation reports (1933-1934).

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 (folios 3-5).

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1 volume (515 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 commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 515; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 156-176; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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