"ولايات الجزيرة العربية السبعة المستقلة [اليمن، عسير، الحجاز، نجد، الكويت، جبل شمر، الجوف]" [و‎‎٦‎٥] (٦٨٠/١٢٩)

j "any moment or even present you to Iraq, If you must "be
"dependent on some one, v/hy "be dependent on those untrustworthy
"imperialists, when you might depend, without "being exactly
"dependent, on a man like me, old friend, fellow Moslem, fellow
"Arab and the one "big independent man in Arabia"..
(b) "I don't like squeezing you, I really don't, with that
"embargo. As things are at present I have to think of my own
"interests. But if your interests were mine, we could easily
"have an understanding, a sort of 'Zollverein' as they say:
"same duties levied in our ports; free competition "between
"yours and rniue; free trade over our land border. 'That have
"the English done about it? Nothing, because they cannot get
"at me. Sois mon frere, e t je t e X c li§-. vivre, Sois le leur,
"et je te tue 1 ' □
(c) "I should not mop you up of course. You would rule
"your state under an understanding with me a Indeed, if you
"were in with me, I might recognise a sort of influence of
"yours over those three Lost Tribes that you always want back.
"Look at how I treated the Idrisi. I made a sensible agreement
"with him in 1926. He remained a ruler with tribal influence.
"I did not take charge in his country, until he got into such
"a mess that he asked me to in 1950. I did not hit him on the
"head until the poor mutt thought he could try conclusions with
"me in 1932. He looked to foreigners and he got it in the neck
"from me" .
(d) "You have had trouble with Iraq over your property there.
" '/hat has England been able or even willing to do for you?
"If I had the right to protect you against third parties, you
"would find that I knew how to see you through."
(e) "Then there's oil 0 People are after it in my country
"and in yours and in the neutral Zone. hy not have an agreed
"policy