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Agreements with the Sultan of Nejd Regarding Certain Questions Relating to the Nejd-Trans-Jordan and Nejd-'Iraq Frontiers. First appearance in print, first impression, of the English text of the Hadda and Bahra Agreements negotiated by Sir Gilbert Clayton and Ibn Saud. The printer's slug records that 1,125 copies were printed in January 1926, one month after the agreements were presented to Parliament by Leo Amery, the colonial secretary and the future political nemesis of Neville Chamberlain.As Ibn Saud continued to expand his power base in the early and mid-1920s, "the turbulent events... precipitated British diplomatic intervention... this led to a series of missions to the Hejaz led by Sir Gilbert Clayton between 1925 and 1928" (Leatherdale, p. 138). The accords reached in 1925 established a tribunal to rule on frontier disputes and placed limitations on the movements of traditionally peripatetic tribes. On the part of Ibn Saud, participation in the agreement was a deliberate diplomatic strategy designed to maintain British neutrality vis-à-vis his broader geopolitical goals. Concerning Clayton, M. W. Daly observes that, "while colleagues and subordinates such as T. E. Lawrence achieved worldwide fame, the confidential nature of Clayton's successive offices necessarily obscured the importance of his achievements" (ODNB).

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