"ملف ٩/٢ البروباجاندا المناهضة لبريطانيا" [و‎‎٣‎٧] (٧٤٨/٧٨)

Translation of an article from the Arabic weekly
tt al-Ka'bita-tu-Arahiyeh M of Cairo, Egypt, dated 17th
Hoy ember 1937,
Has the differences between ^ejd and Kuwait passed
Away?
.And is the Amir of Kuwait to visit Heajaz this y ar?
British opposition to the Arab movement in the
Persian Gulf.
Amirates situated on the Gulf of Basra (Persian), it is
small in size and extent and great in situation and
importance, it is a neighbour to Iraq., not very far from
Basra, and it is also a neighbour of Nejd and is con
sidered to be the nearest port, in the Persian Gulf, to
Riyadh.
differences arose bet?jeen the Saudi and Kuwaiti Govern
ments about the Customs revenues, which both sides have
been unable to settle for the last fifteen years - until
the news comes this week about the visit of Major Dickson,
the British Political Agent at Kuwait, to Riyadh and that
he met and spoke to H.M. King Abdul Aziz about the matters
in dispute and returned with luck and success. Though
we are pleased about the settlement of the dispute, and
the sinking of the differences yet, we are pained and
every Arab is pained to note that settlement should come
through the hands of an Englishman, then people would
say that the Arabs cannot settle their own ordinarily
simple differences, and an Englishman comes in and
effects settlement without the least effort, this, we
hope will not occur again in future. Whatever can be
done through the Englishman should be done by the Arabs
themselves by their own wish and will, and they should
The Amirate of Kuwait is one of the Arab
Due to the closeness of these neighbours some