"ملف ٩/٢ البروباجاندا المناهضة لبريطانيا" [و‎‎١‎٩] (٧٤٨/٤٢)

Translation of an article which appeared in
the A1 Thagar newspaper of Basra, Bo.257, dated the 11th
January 1934.
"A MESSAGE FROM KUWAIT"
THE PERSIAN GULF EMIRATES - WILL THEY" BECOME A UNITED
KINGDOM?
We are accustomed, from time to time to read
in the daily papers, certain gossip and news to do with
the affairs of the Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf,
and every time we read something of this nature we have
approached the cognizant sources to find if it was true.
We, however, are sorry to have to say that we have always
found these tit bits of intelligence to be without found
ation and efforts of the imagination only.
Recently we have read an article which appeared ii
the "A1 Thagar" (Basra) newspaper under the title " A
Kingdom of Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf", in which
the writer treated the affairs of Arabia in their various
aspects, and sorrowfully lamented the stati of division
to which the Arab nation has been reduced, and gave a
detailed account of the intrigues of a certain (foreign)
government^ and the attempts which were being made by it
to bring about a federation of the Arab Emirates in the
Persian Gulf, including Eassa, ^atif, with Basra (the
sea port of the rising Kingdom of the Rafidein - ’Iraq - )
as a Capital.
We are indeed greatly astonished to think that
any person can spend so much of his time in scribbling
such a long article on such a fanciful subject as this.
Sven if we were to take it for granted that
there possibly existed some such plan as propounded by