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Political Relations between UK and Saudi Arabia; British aide-memoire to US State Department on UK policy towards Saudi Arabia; American attitude to Anglo-American close association in the Middle East. Code ES file 1051, 1952

This file contains correspondence relating to: A report on a conversation with Ibn Saud at Riyadh, during which he spoke of suggestions he had made to King Farouk for a settlement of Anglo-Egyptian differences, the Frontier Conference, and the attitude of the Saudi delegation to the UN in Paris (1) The US concern about the possibility of a deterioration of relations between the UK and Saudi Arabia as a result of the failure to reach an agreement on the frontier question (2) Political relations with the UK.

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Anglo-Saudi Arabian relations; proposed visits of Amir Faisal and King Ibn Saud to the UK. Code ES file 1051, 1951

This file contains correspondence relating to: Anglo-Saudi relations, including President Truman’s guarantee of Saudi frontiers (1) Problems in Anglo-Saudi relations, including Mr Trott's conversations with Ibn Saud and Sheikh Yusef Yasin during a visit by the Commander in Chief, Middle East Land Forces (2) Trott's impressions of a visit to Riyadh and of the King (3) Summary of the State Department's conversation with Mr Furlonge on the frontier negotiations, the Sharjah air base, the military mission, the Trucial Levies and the Gulf Sheikhdom (5) Report on Trott's visit to

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Political Relations between UK and Saudi Arabia; British aide-memoire to US State Department on UK policy towards Saudi Arabia; American attitude to Anglo-American close association in the Middle East. Code ES file 1051, 1952

Anglo-Saudi Arabian relations; proposed visits of Amir Faisal and King Ibn Saud to the UK. Code ES file 1051, 1951