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‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’ [181r] (372/608)
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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He stated with some e&otion th t he had received the meet
desperate appeals from these XvimAu of his for assistance,
which appeals it had wrung his heart to refuse. lie also
informed me that - at the same period - he had received
confidential and urgent exhortations from the highest (Iraqi)
quarters In Iraq to assist the rebels to the best of his
abili ty in order that I bn .laud should be definitely son shed*
that they • the highest quarters - could do nothing, because
of the ittglish, but that if he - the hhaikh - would taKt
action they would help hi® secretly* . nd what - Hio
excellency asked me - had he gained by standing firm against
those appeals and exhortations ? Ibn 3aud*s blockade, instead
of ceasing, had increased in severity, and was literally Strang
ling Kuwait to death. Moreover, His Excellency pointed out,
his own notables in Kuwait were continually attacking him on
the subject of His Kajcsty*s Government’e attitude. * fou
stand by the English Government * they sneered, ” *hat has
the English Government done for you in the matter of your date
gardens, or in th© matter of 1 bn Gaud’s blockade, which is now
ruining us ?*
4. I cannot say that - es His iCajesty’s Government’s h
local representative • X enjoyed our conversation® on these ^
subjects, or that I particularly like repeating them for His
Majosty’s Government’s information, but 1 would fall in my
duty if 1 did not report whet His Excellency’s feelings are.
An 1 hrvt already indicated, X found it difficult to give j
replies to His Excellency’s complaints. The line X I** 0 *
was two-fold. First - that I would report the gist of His
Excellency's views - which X have done, and second - that
Kuwait - placed between two more powerful neighbours, ilejd
and Iraq - needed a strong friend, and that - from the long
point ef view - this friend was undoubtedly the British
Government •
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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’
- Pages
- 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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