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51. IOR/L/PS/12/2112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2112
Title:
Coll 6/45 'Nejd-Transjordan Frontier Affairs.'
Scope & Content:
This volume, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns affairs on the Nejd-Transjordan frontier and relations between Amir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī] and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. Much o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1933-21 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 volume (515 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/12/2113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2113
Title:
Coll 6/46 'Salutes in Hejaz Nejd.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns personal salutes given by British naval ships to dignitaries in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence, largely between officials of the Admiralty and the Foreign Office, begins with discussion about the number of gun salutes that should be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1928-5 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/12/2115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2115
Title:
Coll 6/48 'Oil: Concessions in Saudi Arabia. (Hasa)'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, particularly the Hasa [Al Hasa] concession between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal). It includes discussion of the following: Oil negotiations in Saudi Arabia during March and April 1933, and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1923-11 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (574 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/12/2116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2116
Title:
Coll 6/49 'Railways and Communications: Proposed Jedda-Mecca Railway. Motor Transport Arrangements.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the progress of schemes relating to the improvement of transport and communications in Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1932-17 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (109 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/12/2117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2117
Title:
Coll 6/50 'Saudi Arabia: Saudi Relations with the Soviet.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (Saudi Arabia from September 1932 onwards) and the Soviet Union. It largely consists of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1932-20 Jun 1938
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/12/2118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2118
Title:
Coll 6/51 'Pan-Islamic Congress, 1933-5. Activities of Shaukat Ali, the Mufti of Jerusalem and others.'
Scope & Content:
This file documents British concerns regarding the pan-Islamic movement, particularly in Palestine but also in other parts of the Middle East. The file features the following principal correspondents: the Viceroy of India; the Secretary of State for India; His Majesty's Ambassador in Cairo (Mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Mar 1933-7 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (160 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/12/2119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2119
Title:
Coll 6/52 'Saudi Arabia: Anti-Saudi activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence discussing the reported activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh [Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Dabbagh, former Hashimite finance minister in the Hejaz] and other persons referred to as 'anti-Saudi consipirators'. It documents their movements in political exil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1932-6 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 file (159 folios)

58. IOR/L/PS/12/2121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2121
Title:
Coll 6/54 'Saudi-Arabia: Limits of Saudi Arabian territorial waters.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the delimitation of Saudi Arabia's territorial waters. It documents reservations held by the British regarding the Saudi Government's claim that its territorial waters extend as far as four miles from the shore (as opposed to the three-mile limit favoured by the British). The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1932-8 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/12/2123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2123
Title:
Coll 6/56 'Saudi-Arabia: Prevention of use of Bahrein and Kuwait as bases for activities against Nejd (Ibn Hithlain)'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to an Ajman chief named Khalid ibn Hithlain [Khālid bin Muḥammad bin Ḥithlayn, also transliterated as Khalid bin Hathlain in the file], who is suspected of planning anti-Saudi activities. The correspondence documents the efforts of the British authorities – at the Saudi Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1933-31 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

60. IOR/L/PS/12/2124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2124
Title:
Coll 6/57 'U.S.A.: Saudi Relations with U.S.A.'
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1931-15 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)