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(T 3758/160/370). BRITISH LEGATION,
No.47. JED DA.
February 5th, 1931.

Sir,
With reference to your despatoh No.414 (T 8543/
3957/378) of Ootober 30th, I have the honour to stato that

when Sheikh Yussuf Yasin came here the other day with the
Minister for Foreign Affairs he expressed a wish to discuss
with me informally the question of the Hejaz Nationality
Law. I explained that I was not fully instructed on the
subject but I did not feel that I could safely shrink from
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the discussion, in view of the length of time which had
elapsed since I myself reopened the question last June and
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the anxiety of the Hejazi Government to got on with the
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I promulgation of the new Law. I therefore agreed to go into
: the matter with Sheikh Yussuf Yasin on February 4th. I
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regret that I was compelled to anticipate your instructions
on one important point, namely whether I should usk him to
; define the territories in which the law would operate, I had
gathered from conversations at home that there could be no
strong objeotion to ray doing this.
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3. It hod become evident to me in the course of
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various conversations that I could not hope to put into
application the procedure contemplated by your predecessor
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in 1937, namely that draft notes should be prepared in
agreement with the Hejazi Government and should be submitted
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1 for the approval of His Majesty's Government. It was
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clear than Ibn Sa'ud v/as anxious to meet His Majesty's
Government as regards the principal points raised in the
memorandum enolosed in Mr.Stonehewer Bird's despatch No*103
of June 39th, 1938, but was equally anxious to maintain the
His Majesty's Prinoipal Secretary prinoiple/
of State for Foreign Affairs.
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