IOR/L/PS/12/2119

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 exile and their eventual return to Saudi Arabia, following the Saudi Government's granting of a general amnesty to political émigrés in January 1935.

Much of the file's correspondence, which largely consists of copies of letters received by the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, is concerned with the movements of Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh and another Saudi political exile, Muhammad Abdulla Ahmed Sadiq [Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh Ahmed Sadiq], during 1933-1934. It reports on the pair's visit to (and subsequent expulsion from) India, and discusses whether the Government of India has powers to prevent the two men from entering foreign countries such as Iraq or Eritrea.

Other notable anti-Saudi figures discussed in the correspondence include Abdul Raouf Sabban [‘Abd al-Ra‘uf al-Sabban], Abdul Hamid al Khatib [‘Abd al-Ḥamīd al-Khaṭīb, former envoy of Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], and Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh's brother, Husain [Ḥusayn Ṭāhir al-Dabbagh].

The file features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); the Political Resident, and later, Chief Commissioner, Aden (Bernard Rawdon Reilly); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the High Commissioner, Cairo (Percy Loraine, succeeded by Miles Wedderburn Lampson); Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh; the Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]; officials of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the India Office, and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folio 2).