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‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’ [148r] (306/608)
The record is made up of 1 volume (294 folios). It was created in 2 Mar 1929-9 Jul 1933. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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It not only will Im probably avoid, or at laaot pout-
pona, the meotltlft of thM bojd-iiuwait Bloaaado Qmaiaaicmf
about which ha appear a to bo ieso than luiMf-wturm, on tho
ground a put forward by imad Httssaa; # it Jta no ua# con
cluding further agrooaanta if auoh agrooiaonio are not
rrapootod? (Jedda Having faXo-gnm no* 11, paragraph 2 (i»o.
4 to jSuohlro) of ^th Auguot), but ho aloo stay bo able
—at all event o to hie own oat iafact ion—to refute
entirely the Ahliwaa claim, which now—even aa a bargaining
counter—®ay ceaae to have mioh, if any, value. At
least ouch io asy reading of the aituation. ^he mo aupo
with the devil fcuet have a long apoon«, and 1 o» afraid
n that Hie ixeolieney ie no mat^fot hie Majeety* m can
only, 1 suppose, put forward the vmX&i'* reading of the
agreement to Xhn Send as cogently as possible* The shaldh,
however, though he has ay sympathy, by h&s own action in
not making his lit tent ions clearer in hie letter, and by
hie continuing to believe in the good faith of IXm baud
even after being warned by Colonel uioktion, has made the
task a difficult one.
7. with regard to the loams at the time of operations
against Hail, which His hu jo sty’s Minister, Jedda, reports
in his telegram that hie nope sty accepts, though contending
they were a ’gift 1 . These are detailed in Claim IX of the
Altaian dailies, and sees /ding to paragraph 7 of Colonel
TUckson’s letter ho. 6b of 7th liny 1931 {forwarded under
Colonel Bis cue’s despatch ho* 11 of 13th nay 1931 referred
to above) are clearly loans not gifts, the hhaikh having
documentary evidence to this effect in hie possesoion*
I bn Baud presumably recognises this fast, hence hie generous
offer to pay.
1 am sending copies of this despatch to the
govertmsnt/
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Papers concerning relations between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), and a trading blockade imposed on Kuwait by the King of Hejaz and Nejd (from September 1932, the King of the Arab Sa’udite Kingdom [Saudi Arabia]) ‘Abdul ‘Aziz bin ‘Abdur Rahman al-Faisal [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)].
The volume includes:
- Correspondence exchanged between British officials in London ( India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , Foreign Office), the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson) and the 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe; Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle).
- Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ].
- Copies of correspondence (translated into English) exchanged between the Ruler of Kuwait and the King of Hejaz and Nejd.
- Copies of food prices lists, issued by the Arabia Saoudiyah [Saudi Arabia] Government, and published in the Um-Alkura [ Umm-al-Qura ] newspaper in May 1933 (ff 280-283).
Some of the volume’s correspondence is in Arabic, accompanied by English translations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (294 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 294; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the six leading and ending flyleaves.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 3-294; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- ‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:9v, 11r:21v, 24r:24v, 27r:40v, 42r:43v, 52r:59v, 65r:86v, 88r:88v, 99r:157v, 161r:166v, 172r:175v, 177r:194v, 197r:206v, 211r:216v, 221r:249v, 262r:279v, 284r:294v, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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