'File 6/1 I Aviation Imperial Airways' [‎187r] (388/416)

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D.O.Ko.CtSOe
POLITICAL AGMCY,
KUWAIT.
xmed the 5th June 1954.
vail you please refer to your Confidential D.O.
No.460-3 of 25th May 1934.
2. I quite agree with you that it would not be advisable
to approach the ab&lkfc on this subject until the Oil
negotiations are out of the way.
3. Quite privately, it may interest you to know that
I see Gtmbieys hand very clearly in this "telephone" move
of the Manager, Hear East i^rea. Imperial Airways Ltd., and
I know I em right in my conclusions from various personal
letters which I have had during the last six months from
Cross at Cairo, {though mturslly one cannot say these things
openly)*
4* The latter sometime bach asked Gumi ley, if nhen
the Sastbound plane went throng Kuwait In the early morning
7.30 A.M., the Kuweit telegraph Office could open at 6 A.M.
(for one day a week only, its EiBamer hours are 7 A.M.) so
as to enable the local Airways Agent to
The local Pos turns ter himself strongly advocated such course,
and was perfectly willing to work the arrangement.
5. Crumb ley, who saw in Cross* request an excel lent
chance to try and force through hie telephone line to Kuwait
and so get one more good card in hie hand whilst the whole
The Hon'ble Lt.-Colonel T.C.Fcwle, I.A.,
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
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(a) receive the time of departure telegraphed
from shaiba.
(b) send any adverse weather report that might
be necessary.