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FCO 8/4823

Correspondence with Sir L B Grafftey-Smith concerning the meeting between Winston Churchill (UK Prime Minister) and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia in February 1945, 1982 Jan 01 - 1982 Dec 31

This file concerns correspondence between the former Chargé d’Affaires in Jedda [Jeddah] in 1945 Sir Laurence Grafftey-Smith and HMG regarding the meeting between former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the former King of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud in Egypt in January 1945. It concerns Grafftey-Smith’s misgivings regarding the reporting of the meeting in the recently published book The Kingdom by Robert Lacey and his request for evidence regarding whether Churchill raised the question of Arab relations with ‘Zionist Palestine’ during the discussion.
FO 464/66

Arabia: 'Extracts from Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia' by John Gordon Lorimer, Indian Civil Service, 1908 Jan 01 - 1915 Dec 31

This file contains extracts from the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia by John Gordon Lorimer a civil servant in British India and later Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
FCO 8/5723

Relations between Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, 1984 Jan 01 - 1984 Dec 31

This file concerns the involvement of Saudi Arabia in supporting the resistance in Afghanistan to the Soviet-supported governing regime.
CO 727/6

Offices: Foreign., 1923, May - Dec.

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the Foreign Office and the India Office relates to 'Arabia'.
CO 727/3

Offices: (except Admiralty, Foreign), Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Institutions., 1921

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the India Office, the Board of Trade and others, relates to ‘Arabia’.
CO 727/1

Despatches., 1921

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence mainly with the Admiralty and the Foreign Office relates to the affairs of ‘Arabia’, especially to the King of Hejaz Hussein Bin Ali Al Hashemi and his son Faisal Bin Hussein Al Hashemi, who is the King of Iraq and the ex-King of Syria.
FO 1016/313

The Imamate of Oman: report by George Rentz, 1954

This file contains a Comment by the Research Department at the Foreign Office on George Rentz's Book on South-East Arabia entitled "Oman and the Southern Shore of the Persian Gulf" (originally published in 1952), 25 February 1954.