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File 87/1926 Pt 4 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Treaty negotiations: attitude of H.M.G. in regard to their right to manumit slaves' [461r] (19/134)
The record is made up of 1 item (70 folios). It was created in 9 Jun 1926-23 Dec 1926. 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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Draft Paper.
P.4266/2(!p
political Department.
Copy to
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1139b 5000 4/2(5
THE UNDER SECRETARY OR STATE,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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.
,
WHITEHALL, S.W.l
1 ^ec'iate
^ 9 DEC lS2t>
Sir,
I am directed by the Secretary
O- State a.or India to refer to vour
letter of 6th December, No.E 6636/900
/91, regarding the attitude of Ibn
Baud as regards the right of His
la jesty f s Government to manumit
; slaves.
The Earl of Birkenhead has no
special observations to offer at this
stage in the negotiations on the
general question of the exercise of
tr.is right by His Majesty’s Government
lo ..as been a settled policy to insist
on tnis right at the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
,
Jeddah, for some considerable time,
and in fact Mr.Jordan, acting on
instructions from Secretary Sir Austen
Chamberlain in which Lord Birkenhead
concurred, informed Ibn Saud in
a letter dated 10th May (F.O. No.
3473/900/91) that the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs could not
agree to the abandonment of the
exercise
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There is a small amount of Foreign Office and 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. correspondence relating to the opening of formal treaty negotiations in November 1926 between the British Government and Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz and Sultan of Nejd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], with a view to concluding a revised friendship treaty. It includes the following: a British revised draft treaty and negotiating instructions; discussions about the early, temporary suspension of negotiations over the refusal of the British Government to relinquish its rights to manumit slaves in the Hejaz; and a report from the British Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to the Colonial Office, about the territorial encroachments into Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and other parts of Eastern Arabia by Ibn Saud and the Amir of Hasa.
The correspondence is followed by a copy of the Final report of the delegates of India to the seventh (ordinary) session of the Assembly of the League of Nations , dated 1926. It contains the text of the Slavery Convention agreed at the Assembly and referred to in the correspondence.
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