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File 7251/1920 Pt 3 'Arabia: Situation and Policy; Agenda for Inter Departmental Committee Meetings' [‎191r] (17/268)

The record is made up of 1 item (133 folios). It was created in 25 Jun 1920-4 Dec 1920. 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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
EAS 1 ERN. [October 26.]
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 4.
[E 13233/166/44] No. 1.
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. , Aden, to Earl Curzon.—-(Received October 26.)
(No. 36.)
My Lord, Aden, October 14, 1920.
IN continuation of my telegram No. 356 A.P., dated the 14th October, 1920, 1
have the honour to forward, for your Lordship’s information and instructions, extracts
from a letter, dated the 8th October, from Captain M. Fazluddin, I.M.S., liaison
medical othoer with the Idrisi, reporting the Idrisi’s comments on a letter addressed to
him by the King of the Hedjaz.
I also attach a translation of the letter addressed hy Shereef Abdulla to the
Idrisi.
Copies of this despatch have been sent to the High Commissioners, Egypt and
Mesopotamia.
I nnvp rvc*
’t. E. SCOTT, Major-General
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Extracts from letter, dated the 8th October, 1920, from Captain M. Fazluddin,
Liaison Medical Officer with the Idrisi, Jizan, to Major J. C. C. Barrett, C.I.E.,
First Assistant Resident, Aden.
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ON the arrival of the Senoussi at Jizan on the 2nd instant along with me, the
Idrisi received him in Syed Mustafa’s house, and, after a preliminary talk and the usual
greetings and congratulations on his having performed the pilgrimage to Mecca, the
letters of the King of Hedjaz and his son, Abdulla, were handed over to him. After
reading them he made the following significant remark : “In reality this man is a
great calamity. God has tried him for his evil doings, and now he desires to entangle
us also in his trials and wishes to bring upon us a calamity from these people (the
Allies !). We do not hate friendship, but this man is dishonest and double-faced. We
do not like to turn out a suppliant. Lord ! save us from the evil, which redounds on
the doer himself and the tyranny of men.”
Next morning I saw Syed Mustafa, and, during the course of our conversation, he
brought in the talk about the letters of the King of Hedjaz and his son. He took out
the letters from his pocket and read them to me. He asked me to mark the humble
tone of these letters and compare it with the tone of his newspapers, which exhibit
clearly the double-facedness, treachery, ungratefulness, untruthfulness and megalomania
of the man. He then read to me parts of the newspaper “ Falah ” of the 8th September,
in which he had described the Senoussi’s presence in Mecca as a deputation from the
Idrisi, and said that deputations from all the Arabian chiefs had come as suppliants for
peace and pan-Arabian alliance, and had thus gathered under the common banner of
Islam, in the Um-el-Qura (the mother of cities, i.e., Mecca); while in the other articles
of the same paper he had described in very high-sounding words the general awakening
of the Arab nation to the treachery of the Kafirs and their sinister designs on the
Arabian lands.
Continuing, he remarked : “ What trust could be placed in a man who could, for
his own selfish ends, stoop to tell a lie in describing the Senoussi s presence in Mecca as a
deputation from the Idrisi suing for an alliance, while you imow perfectly well, even
better than myself, how the Senoussi went from here for pilgrimage against the wishes
of the Idrisi, who tried his utmost in persuading him (Senoussi) to postpone his visit till
next year, and how, again, he was compelled by the Shereef and his son to return to
Yemen against his will and at great personal inconvenience to himself on account of his
indifferent health ? If it were a deputation, indeed, why does he not refer m his letters
to any of Idrisi’s letter which a deputation must have taken with it ? Asked i there
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This part of the volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning relations between 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 , Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state, as well as policy in Arabia more generally. Correspondence comes from officials at the 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. , Foreign Office, War Office, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Aden, the Office of the High Commissioner in Palestine, the Office of the High Commissioner in Cairo, the Office of the High Commissioner in Iraq, and the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Jeddah. Further correspondence comes from King Hussein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī] of the Hejaz, his sons Emir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī] and Emir Feisal [Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], the French Ambassador in London, and officials of the German and United States Governments.

This part deals with relations between Nejd and the neighbouring territories of 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 , the Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state. Matters covered include the supply of Arms to the Idrisi, control of Hodeidah and the proposed withdrawal of the British garrison there, the British subsidy to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]of Nejd, efforts to reach an agreement between the Hejaz and Nejd, trouble along the 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 boundary involving the Ikhwan and local tribes, and future British policy in the region.

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