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From HEJAZ-NEJD.
Decypher
Sir A. Ryan, (Jedcia),
18th February, 1931.
6.30 p.m. 18th February, 1931.
9.00 a.m. 19th February, 1931.
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Your telegram No.26.
I have considered this in conjunction with
Transjordan telegram No.12 repeated to Colonial Office
No.12 and a fresh note from Yusuf Yasin which is
summarised in part 1 of my immediately following
telegram/Sibject to what I said at (a) in ny telegram
No.27 I agree to gravity of raid lant autumn.
I agree also as to continued importance of
Neshm:i| but Ibn Saud can invoke his dismissal as proof
of disavowal and punishment.
Your further statement regarding public knowledge
of incitement to raid partly removes my objection to
using this argument. My point was that His Majesty's
Government still have to appraise in judicial capacity
the value of all evidence given to Investigation and
might do better not to commit themselves explicitly to
acceptance of it at this stage.
I still feel very strongly that direct accusation
against the King however justified by secret informa
tion would do more harm than good. You will remember
I narrowly escaped acute quarrel with him when I wrote
to him in July about this frontier question. His
conscience may be guilty but he is quite clever enough
to repudiate charge of personal complicity and ask
reasons for it.
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