ملف ٤٢/ ١٩٣١ "ادعاءات الإغارة في مناطق نجد-شرق الأردن" [و‎‎٣‎٥‎٩] (٩٣٠/٧٢٢)

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I bn Sand, like all the great empires of the world,
though on a Lilliputian scale, is apt to be constantly led into
aggression to support his prestige c I do not believe that
Ibn Sand at present desires territorial aggrandisement or
tension with His Majesty’s Government« But the need for main
taining his.prestige, to terrorise his own subjects, draws him
on. If a tribe from across the border raids into Hejd, ha
sets out to destroy that tribe, as described above. On the
one hand he raids it from Nejd, on the other ha complains
against it to His Majesty’s Government* Whan as a, result of
the latter complaint, the tribe is punished ha sends
mass angers to urge it to transfer its allegiance to him, point
ing out the harsh treatment which it ia receiving from its
own Government, treatment solely due to his complaints to His
Majesty’s Government * When he lias succeeded in ssr '---cing
he loudly and repeatedly points the moral to a is own
followers,, K Kven tribes subject to foreign Governments are
inevitably brought to humiliation and surrender it they oppose
me, Ho Government can save them out of my hand,” ’the
acquisition of fresh tribes lead to inevitable demands for
fresh territory* If the Howeitat go over to the Akhwan* bu
might well once more press for the surrender of Aqaba ana
Ma’an, an area in which the influence of th© Howei^at u
predominant* Were it surrendered to him, the same process
would re-coromence in the Bead Sea Valley and at Amman,
Ton Baud is always acting a part before his mn
sub 1 acts. His demand for the destruction of the Iraq desert
posts was purely an internal question. He did noo v^ant to con*
quar Iraq but the posts prevented Mutair raiding Iraq
and Mutair stated, in no measured 'oerms, that
if they could not raid Iraq they
would