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Sa'iid’s subsidy from the British Government was important, because his
total annual income from all other sources during this period was only
about £100,000. H. St. John B. Philby, Arabian Jubilee, London, 1952,
57.
9. In July 1920 the Foreign Office noted that ‘the interruption of the
pilgrimage would cause the most unfavourable reaction there [India), and
in our other Moslem Dependencies, and incidentally a probable access of
pro-Turkish and Pan-Islamic sentiment. ... A Wahabi occupation of the
Holy Places would probably close them effectively to the Pilgrimage from
India, Egypt, and the Straits Settlements’. Cab. 24/109, C.P. 1653,
Foreign Office, ‘Memorandum on the Subsidies to King Hussein and Ibn
Saud’,7 July 1920.
10. F.O. 882/13, KH/18/16, Wilson to Wingate, 23 July 1918.
11. F.O. 882/13, KH/18/15, Note by Cornwallis, 18 July 1918.
12. F.O. 882/9,1S/18/46, note by Clayton, 15 August 1918.
13. L/P&S/10/389, P. 3327/18, Wingate to Foreign Office, 31 July
1918.
14. F.O. 882/3, AP/18/2, Wilson to Wingate, I May 1918.
15. F.O. 371/3381, 146256, memorandum by Hogarth, undated but
probably 9 August 1918.
16. Cab. 27/23, M.E.C. 23, Cornwallis to Captain William Ormsby-
Gore (Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet), 14 December 1917.
17. F.O. 371/3384, 183342, Clayton to Wingate, 8 September 1918.
18. F.O. 371/3043, 92524, Wingate to Balfour, 26 April 1917.
19. Cab. 27/23, M.E.C. 21, Wingate to Balfour, 25 December 1917.
20. F.O.371/3384, 183342, Wingate to Balfour, 21 September 1918. 371
21. Cab. 27/25, E.C. 180, minutes of conference in Cairo, 23 March
1918.
22. Minutes of conference in Cairo, 16 June 1918, quoted in Philip
Graves, The Life of Sir Percy Cox, London, 1941,245.
23. Philby, 'Najd Mission’, 27-8.
24. L/P&S/18/B.297, note by Hirtzel, 20 November 1918. Ibn Rashid
was Ibn Sa‘ud’s hereditary enemy. He was amir of Jabal Shammar, which
was located north of Najd.
25. Ibn Sa‘ud was so unconcerned with the question of Arab national­
ism that in February 1920 he told Major H. R. P. Dickson, Political Agent
at Bahrain, that the British Government ‘should never let the Arabs have
possession of Beyrouth. We should beware of giving independence to Iraq,
and on no account should we listen to the Nationalist screams of the
Egyptians’. Quoted in Arab Bulletin, Notes on the Middle East, No. 4, 5
June 1920, 121. Philby also observed that Ibn Sa‘ud’s ‘insistence on his
own complete independence contrasted strangely with his indifference to
the struggles of his Arab neighbours for a like status’. Philby, Arabian
Jubilee, 123.
26. Article three of the Anglo-Najd treaty of December 1915 stipulated
that Ibn Sa‘ud would have correspondence or diplomatic relations only
with the British Government. The Anglo-Najd treaty is discussed in a
forthcoming article by Daniel Silverfarb in Middle Eastern Studies. The