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File 87/1926 Pt 3 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Treaty negotiations' [271r] (534/895)
The record is made up of 1 item (449 folios). It was created in 5 Nov 1926-27 Nov 1930. It was written in English and French. 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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We are against enforcement of capitulation
oethede* rights by Treaty. Though Indian Uoslems are likely
to need all the protection we can give then against Wahabi
fanaticism and crude methods of justice, any attest on our
part, at this stage, to limit jurisdiction and sovereignty
of Hedjaz Govemaent, or to interfere by treaty with
administration of Moslem holy law in Moslem holy land, would
antagonise Moslem India. For the moment, we think it wiser
to aim at securing very little more than normal consular powers
of interference, plug a clause providing for most favoured .
nation treatment for British subjects. Hence, while we would
include Article 5 of 1915 Agreement, amplified so as to provide
aisc for freedom of religious observances and rites for
Moslems of British nationality, we would reduce Articles 11 to
14 cf draft treaty with Hussein to some general provision,
innocuous in fuir but extendible in practice,ouch as the
recognition of the right o? our Consular Officers to send
representatives to watch civil or criminal proceedings in
which British subjects are concerned. We would exclude
Article 15, however, for though such declaration would bo
valuable in dispelling suspicions regarding our intention#, we
might, and probably will ir time, wish to secure rights it
pf we anticipate, we are forced by public opinion fee seer
fuller protection for British subjectOt. Meanwhile we should
r*iy on prectige of His Majesty's Government and personal
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The correspondence relates to the treaty negotiations which took place at Mecca between British Government representatives and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also written in the correspondence as Bin Saud], King of the Hejaz and the Sultan of Nejd from November 1926 until May 1927, when the Treaty of Jeddah was signed, thus replacing its predecessor, the Anglo-Najdi friendship treaty of 1915.
The main correspondents are the following successive chief negotiators: Stanley Rupert Jordan, British Consul and Agent at Jeddah (assisted by George Habib Antonius, translator); and Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, His British Majesty's Envoy to Ibn Saud.
The earliest document is a 1918 Foreign Office Memorandum on British commitments to Ibn Saud. It includes a detailed account of the treaty negotiations, 1913-1915, between Bin Saud and Sir Percy Cox, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , as well as the drafts and final text of the friendship treaty between the British Government and Ibn Saud, as signed on 26 December 1915 and ratified on 18 July 1916.
There is one item of correspondence in French dated November 1930. It is a letter of enquiry to the Foreign Office, from the French Ambassador to London, regarding French treaty negotiations with Ibn Saud and the latter's demand for assistance in obtaining a renewal of the supply of revenues from the Haramain Waqfs, which are Muslim endowments for the upkeep and improvement of religious shrines in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
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