IOR/L/PS/12/2072

This file consists of printed copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office, which have been compiled by the India Office's External Affairs Department. Most of the correspondence is addressed to the Foreign Office by the British Minister at Jedda, Sir Reader William Bullard. Other received correspondence includes letters from His Majesty's Consuls at Benghazi and Damascus enclosing translated extracts from Damascus and Benghazi newspapers.

Subjects covered include:

• Plans for an Arab convention at Mecca, to be held during the 1937 pilgrimage season.
• Protests from Mussalmans [Muslims] in Tripolitania against a proposal [made by the Peel Commission] to partition Palestine.
• Reports of Palestinians amassing large quantities of what is referred to as 'anti-British propaganda' for distribution in Mecca.
• British relations with Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], including Bullard's accounts of his meetings with Ibn Saud.
• Italian-Saudi relations, including discussion of a recent delivery of arms from Italy to the Saudi Government.
• The future of Saudi Arabia in the event of Ibn Saud's death.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the front of the correspondence.