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а. See A. Cunningham, ‘The Wrong Horse: A Study of Anglo-Turkish
Relations before the First World War’, (St Antonys Papers, no. 17),
Middle Pastern Affairs, no. 4 (1965).
3. Aitchison, A Collection of Treaties, vol. xi, pp. 206-8. For an account
of early Anglo-Saudi relations, see Gary Trocllcr, The Birth of Saudi
Arabia (London, 1976).
4. L/P&S/to, P5027/22, P2749/26, Secretary of State for India to Viceroy,
21 Aug 1926 (telegram).
5. Cmd 2951 of 1927, in Aitchison, A Collection of Treaties, vol. xi, pp.
227-9.
б. For an account of the fall of the Ikhwan, see H. R. P. Dickson,
Kuwait and her Neighbours (London, 1968); J. B. Glubb, War in the
Desert (London, i960).
7. Philby, Saudi Arabia, p. 337.
8. The Conference held between Cox and I bn Sa‘ud to delineate the
borders of Ncjd with Iraq, Transjordan and Kuwait. This followed the
Treaty of Muhammarah early in 1922, which had been drawn up
by Cox and contested by I bn Sa‘ud. See H. St J. B. Philby, ‘A
Survey of Wahhabi Arabia, 1929’, Journal of the Central Asian Society,
xvi (1929), and Arabian Jubilee (London, 1952); Amcen Rihani, Ibn
Sa(oud of Arabia (London, 1928); and ‘The Iraq-Najd Frontier’, Journal
of the Central Asian Society, xvu (1930)
9. Rihani, Ibn Sa'oud, p. 67.
10. L/P&S/i 1/294, P6690/1928, Thomas to Political Resident, 13 June 1927.
11. Note in R/15/2/474 3 Mar 1933. It is interesting to note that a
strikingly similar talc is told of the Wahhabis in the nineteenth century,
an indication of the influence and power of historical precedent, by
which tradition could be confused with reality.
12. L/P&S/i 1/222, P5027/22, Political Resident to Government of India,
13 May 1921.
13. Ibid., Political Resident to Government of India, 10 Nov 1922.
14. In an interesting minute G. A. Simpson of the Political Department
of the India Office remarked uneasily, ‘it would have been a better
sign if Ibn Saud had argued the point bitterly and fiercely' (ibid.,
P731/23, 2 Mar 1923).
15. L/P&S/i 1/222, P5875/30, Political Agent Bahrain to Political Resident,
2 Aug 1930. Enclosed in Political Resident to Government of India,
18 Aug 1930.
16. R. M. Burrell, ‘Britain, Iran and the Persian Gulf: Some Aspects
of the Situation in the 1920s and 1930s’, in The Arabian Peninsula:
Society and Politics, ed. Derek Hopwood (London, 1972).
17. Tunb lies about seventeen miles south of the south-west corner of
Qishm, and Little Tunb (Nabiyu Tunb) is an uninhabited island
about one mile long and lying eight miles west of Tunb. Sparsely
inhabited and almost waterless, Tunb had deposits of red oxide. Generally
speaking, Little Tunb was not explicitly referred to in the dispute,
but it was included with Tunb.
18. Larger and more populous than Tunb, Abu Musa lies closer to Sharjah
than to Lingah. It had good supplies of water and valuable deposits
of red oxide. The population of Tunb and Abu Musa varied with