File 1707/1924 ‘Arabia:- Jeddah Situation Reports. (1924-1930)’ [‎125r] (254/898)

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( 2 .) Travellers from the Sudan, Aden, Eritrea, or other country where the
absence of a Hejaz representative in the country of departure or en route
renders the obtaining of a visa impossible, must obtain permission to land
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10. A translation of a recently-issued regulation on Government employees is
transmitted herewith. 1 he chief interest in this regulation lies in the stipulation
that all permanent officials must be Hejazi subjects and that foreigners will only be
employed under contract for limited periods. The matter will probably be of no
practical importance, though the result will be that a vast number of Government
officials, Fuad Hamza (a Palestinian) among them, will have dual nationality, as,
when assuming Hejaz nationality for the purpose of serving Ibn Saud, they are
unlikely to divest themselves of their nationality of origin.
11. Jeddah has had two visitors of interest during the last month : Mine.
Gaulis, a French traveller and publicist, and Mr. F. Richards, an etcher of
distinction. So much trouble did the Hejaz Government take over the entertainment
of Mme. Gaulis, who arrived armed with a recommendation from M. Poincare, that
rumours were rife in the £C souk ” that some political importance was to be attached
to her visit. It is quite clear, however, that she belongs to the ever-increasing band
of women who wander about the Near East in search of colour and sensation denied
to them in Europe and commit their impressions to paper. She is apparently an
authority on Turkey; Arabia, its politics, language and geography being virgin soil
to her. She early succumbed to the climate, and remained only five days; her
impressions were most favourable, and she never tired of expatiating to a somewhat
unappreciative audience on the charms of Jeddah.
12. The Hejaz, and the consular corps in Jeddah in particular, has suffered in
the death of Dr. Cesana, the Italian consul, a very severe loss. Politically, he passed
with honours through an extremely trying period, and it was entirely due to his
tactful handling of Ibn Saud’s Ministers that relations between Nejd and Italy
remained unstrained. He was whole-heartedly pro-British, and on many occasions,
both in public and privately, championed the cause of His Majesty’s Government
against the attacks of Philby. To his colleagues, and especially to those among us
who enjoyed his friendship, his loss is very great. He was a man of wide reading
and very keen intelligence. He had, moreover, an inexhaustible stock of good humour
on which we could all draw. He was also an excellent doctor, to whose skill all his
colleagues and almost every member of the European colony owe their speedy recovery
from the various disorders which at frequent intervals assailed them.