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File 57/1928 Pt 4 'Iraq-Nejd Relations: Mission of Sir G. Clayton to Ibn Saud.' [89v] (176/1364)
The record is made up of 1 item (682 folios). It was created in 29 May 1928-4 Oct 1929. 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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ENCLOSURE IN NO. 3.
Draft of Proposed Note to King Ibn Sa‘ud.
November, 1928.
Your Majesty,
I have the honour to inform Your Majesty that I have been
instructed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on behalf
of His Britannic Majesty’s Government, to address the following
communication to Your Majesty.
2. His Britannic Majesty’s Government, while fully appreciating
the friendly spirit in which the recent conversations between Your
Majesty and Sir Gilbert Clayton were held, have learnt with deep
regret that these conversations have not resulted in any agreement
on the major question at issue, namely, the interpretation of Articled
of the First Protocol of Uqair.
3. His Britannic Majesty’s Government have given the most
careful and sympathetic consideration to the views and arguments
put forward by Y our Majesty, and they are particularly anxious
to do everything in their power to assist Your Majesty in Your
manifest efforts to maintain peaceful conditions on the frontier.
But on the other hand, they cannot but regard it as a matter of
fixed principle that the Government of every country is entitled,
m the absence of specific undertakings to the contrary, to carry out
such measures of internal administration within its territory as it
may from time to time think necessary". The interpretation which
Your Majesty seeks to place upon Article 3 of the First Protocol of
Uqair is one which, in the opinion of His Britannic Majesty’s
Government and the Government of ‘Iraq, is not only inconsistent
with the text of the Article, but would involve an unwarrantable
departure, to the detriment of Traq, from the above-mentioned
principle. It is for these reasons that Your Majesty’s interpretation
is unacceptable.
4. In the conversations which he was privileged to have with
Your Majesty, Sir Gilbert Clayton emphasised the pacific and
friendly nature of the reasons which had caused the Traq Govern
ment to construct and maintain certain posts in the desert. He
also made it abundantly clear that the posts in question were not
intended to interfere with the customary rights of grazing
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The part concerns the mission of Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton in 1928 to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of the Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and of Najd and its Dependencies. The purpose of the mission was to conduct negotiations concerning the frontier between Ibn Saud's territories and Iraq and Trans-Jordan, and to discuss relations between the states.
The papers cover: correspondence and minutes concerning the progress of negotiations; interim reports by Clayton; the application of the Uqair [Al-ʻUqayr] Protocol; reports by Captain John Bagot Glubb, Administrative Inspector, Southern Desert; negotiations over frontier posts and extradition; tribal raids; list of places through which Ibn Saud passed on his journey from Riyadh to Mecca in April to May 1928, with distances and times, sent to the Foreign Office as an indication of the state of the roads in the area (folios 396-399); printed copies of Clayton's reports, April-June 1928 (folios 302-348), and July-August 1928 (folios 69-90); papers concerning the breakdown of negotiations, August 1928; and minutes by George Habib Antonius.
The part includes correspondence from: Clayton, Ibn Saud, the High Commissioner for Iraq, HM Consul and Agent, Jeddah, and the Colonial Office.
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