Page 2 - Hejaz-Nejd Miscellaneous Bahrain

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Reference IOR/R/15/1/569

Title 'File 61/11 VI (D 102) Hejaz-Nejd Miscellaneous'
Date(s) 2 Feb 1931-30 Aug 1934 (CE, Gregorian)
Written in English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

Extent and Format 1 volume (259 folios)
Holding Institution British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers
Copyright for document Public Domain

About this record

The volume contains two original files bound together. The first file (folios 1A-207) has the original
reference 61/11 VI (D 102) and covers the period 7 November 1933 to 30 August 1934 and relates to Hejaz-Najd
affairs. The second file (folios 208-243) has the original reference 61/6 VII (D 95) and covers the period 2
February 1931 to 5 August 1932 and relates to Najd affairs. Both contain letters, telegrams, memoranda, and
reports sent between the British Legation in Jeddah, the Foreign Office in London, the Political Residencies
in Bushire and Aden, the Political Agencies in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Muscat, the High Commissioner in Trans-
Jordan, the High Commissioner in Baghdad (later the British Embassy following Iraqi independence in 1932), the
Colonial Office in London, the Government of India, and Ibn Sa'ud.

The main subject of the first file is the territorial dispute between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Contained in the
volume are papers concerning Saudi Arabian advances into the territories of 'Asir and Yemen and the subsequent
Treaty of Taif that largely settled the dispute. There is also coverage of diplomatic conversations between
Italy and Britain regarding the dispute, including secret talks in Rome. Included is the full Arabic text of
the Treaty (folios 143-150A) and an English translation (folios 156-177).

Other subjects covered in the first file are:

• the visit of M. Maigret, the French Charge D'Affairs, to Riyadh to speak with Ibn Sa'ud;

• the visit of Talaat Pasha Harb;

• a provisional agreement signed by the United States and Saudi Arabia;

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