IOR/R/15/2/928

The file contains confidential dispatch no.239 dated 25 July 1934 from Mr A.S. Calvert (chargé d’affaires, British Legation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) to Sir John Simon (British Foreign Secretary, Foreign Office, London). Calvert also sent copies of his dispatch to the Viceroy of India and to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The Political Resident forwarded a copy of the dispatch to the Political Agent, Bahrain, for information, on 25 August 1934.

In his dispatch, Calvert both discussed and enclosed an English translation of an article published in the Mecca newspaper Saut al Hejaz, issue no.117 dated 23 July 1943. The article claimed that an updated treaty of friendship had been concluded between Great Britain and Sheikh Hamad Ibn ‘Isa of Bahrain, with the help of the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It was also claimed that the alleged new treaty supported the development of a national alliance of Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf, referring to them as Emirates.