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This file concerns relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States, and features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires to Washington (Ronald Ian Campbell); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (S...
Coll 6/6 'Nejd: Nejd-Transjordan Frontier Raiding. Note from H.M.G. to Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) regarding reported raids on the frontier between Transjordan and the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia...
Ext 5626/41 'Internment of Axis (German and Italian) nationals in Iran. Question of their disposal.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the internment and proposed transfer of civilian Axis nationals (mainly Germans and Italians but also Bulgarians, Hungarians and Romanians) who have been handed over to the British authorities in Persia [Iran]. The file features the following principal correspondents: His ...
Coll 6/5 'Relations with Ibn Saud. Proposed meeting between Col. Biscoe and Ibn Saud. Koweit-Nejd Relations.'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists largely of copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) regarding relations between Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and Kuwait. In addition, t...
Coll 6/82 'Saudi Arabia: Removal from Jedda, of Indian Vice-Consul, Pilgrimage officer (Bahadur Ihsanullah), owing to Saudi intrigues against him.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the early retirement of the Indian Vice-Consul at Jedda, Khan Bahadur Ihsanullah, in 1937, due to what are referred to as intrigues against him. The correspondence includes details of Ihsanullah's position as Vice-Consul, which he has held since 1918. It discusses his duties...
Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1873. The letters are dated December 1872-December 1873. The abstracts each have one of the following titles: Abstracts ...
Coll 29/114(2) 'Supply of motor vehicles for use of Political Officers'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of cars for use of consular officers in the Persian Gulf and their maintenance. The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Foreign Office, the India Office, the British Embassy at Tehran,...
Coll 29/19 'Procedure for appointment and recognition of consular officers in Persia: Persian rule of one consul only per post; passports for military officers posted to Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the appointment and recognition of British Consular officers in Persia by the Persian Government, who were not willing to recognise by the grant of an exequatur more than one Consular Officer at any one post. The file contains internal correspondence about and with subjects a...
Coll 29/30 'Supply of Reuter's news to posts in Persia after withdrawal of Indo European Telegraph Department; wireless set for Bushire Residency'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of news to the British Legation in Tehran and the British consulates in Persia after the withdrawal of Indo European Telegraph Department. The file covers: proposal to employ an Armenian operator to supply wireless service to Tehran Legation provision of a wireless ...
Coll 29/73 'Ahwaz: grant of compensation to the Shaikh of Mohammerah on account of money he advanced towards the building of a consulate at Ahwaz'
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The file concerns the British Consulate site and buildings at Ahwaz, rented from the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The file covers: affairs of Shaikh of Mohammerah with the Persian Government, 1933 payment of compensation to Shaikh of Mohammerah for the loss of a sum of money advanced by him in 1924 fo...
