Frontier dispute between Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf States

This file contains correspondence on:

• Buraimi murder incident (1051-1054, 1060, 1067, 1069, 1071)
• Proposal to send ammunition to Sheikh Abdulla Bin Salem at Mahadha (1055)
• Translation of a private letter from Sayyed Ahmad Bin Ibrahim reporting details of the road the Saudi government have started making for Buraimi (1056)
• Copy of a letter from Sharjah recording a statement by a slave who was employed by Turki Bin Ataishan, and who escaped from Hamasa (1057)
• Report from the British Information Service that the American press are not interested in publicising the Buraimi dispute (1058)
• Exchange of letters between the British Residency, Bahrain and Sharjah on arbitration and the replacement of Turki Bin Ataishan (1059)
• Discussions on relations with Saudi Arabia now dominated by the Buraimi dispute (1061)
• Letter from the Central Office of Information discussing a revised article on the Buraimi question based on HMG reference papers on the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Selwyn Lloyd's statement in the House of Commons in April 1953 and Anthony Eden's clarification of ownership of the oasis (1062)
• Messages from the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs protesting against British activity in the Buraimi area (1063,1064)
• Discussion on the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur's fears about the proposal of arbitration and the possibility that he might withdraw from the whole affair (1065)
• Report on Saudi Arabia, oil and the frontier dispute (1066)
• Discussions with the Saudi Ambassador on the implications of the arbitration agreement (1068)
• Discussions as to the form of the agreement and the question of full powers following signature of the agreement (1070)
• Discussions concerning the ARAMCO map on which ten posts are shown as occupied by HMG forces in territory regarded as belonging to Abu Dhabi (1072)
• Paper prepared by Air Vice Marshall Hawtrey on the employment of the RAF in the Trucial Oman operations 1952-1953 (1073)