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FO 624/79

Middle East: Prime Minister's visit, 1945

This file contains a record of conversation held between the Minister Resident Sir Edward Grigg and Amir Abdulla. The main purpose of conversation was to alleviate the row created for not inviting Amir Abdulla and the Regent of Iraq to the meeting in Cairo held among the British Prime Minister, Ibn Saud and Ahmad Shukairi.

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.
DEFE 5/12

Defence Chiefs of Staff Committee: Memoranda, 1948 Aug 2 - Oct 11

This file contains the Defence Chiefs of Staff Committee memoranda from 2 August 1948 to 11 October 1948, concerning global strategy and potential war with the Soviet Union.
CO 727/2

Offices: Foreign., 1921, July - Dec.

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the Foreign Office relates to ‘Arabia’, especially the affairs of the King of Hejaz Hussein Bin Ali Al Hashemi.
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.
PREM 11/698

Persian Gulf; Trucial sheikdoms; frontier dispute with Saudi Arabia, 1952-1954

This file contains correspondence relating to the frontier dispute with Saudi Arabia and covers: Saudi operations at Buraimi Operations on the Trucial Coast Saudi Arabia Annual Review for 1952 Exchange of letters relating to breaches of the Standstill Agreement and defence measures taken Impending military operations Conversations between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Ruler of Kuwait Letter from J F Dulles expressing concern over the British position Possible consequences of a breach of relations by Saudi Arabia Proposal for the withdrawal of Turki fr