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'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous' [134r] (287/474)
The record is made up of 1 volume (235 folios). It was created in 29 May 1934-5 May 1937. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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the article, or, if illiterate, may Hear about it, or even by
the Shaikh, of Kuwait himself. vVhen the * Iraqi Press talk about
the Annexing* of Kuwait, though naturally this is annoying to
the Shaikh, the latter must know (at least I presume he does)
that if the 1 Iraqi Grovernment were ever so stupid as to attempt
annexation this would be an act of war which we would deal with
speedily and effectively. But this talk about Bin Baud going
back on the 1 Oqair Treaty, and Cox knowing about Bin Saud 1 s
real intentions at the time he made the Treaty, seems to me a
good deal more harmful® The Chaikh has always felt very sore
over this Treaty which he feels (vide Dickson's demi-official
letter of 2nd October 1934 to the
India Office
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Office Printed Letter No,P•Z,6160/34 of 19th October 1934) gave
away tribes and territory to Bin Saud which rightly belonged to
Kuwait. The Feutral Zone especially he looivS on as belonging
by right to him (vide Dickson's letter quoted above) and not
as joint property between himself and Bin Saud as it was made
by the Treaty.
4. I am sure he will not suspect Cox, who was a friend of
his, of bad faith, but the whole trend of the article may well
leave an uneasy feeling in his mind with regard to the Keutral
Zone. I shall do my best to disabuse him of this feeling by
telling him that the article is of course - ^as he knows" -
rubbish from beginning to end.
5. With regard to Dickson 's Express Letter I think it
unlikely that the article was inspired, from Riath, and agree
with the suggestion imde in his paragraph 3 that its motive
is probably pecuniary.
♦
I am sending copies of this letter to Metcalfe, Walton
and Dickson. v ,
V ^
♦sent under d.o.P.L.No.39-S of 10/1/36.
About this item
- Content
This file contains correspondence related to a number of different topics (all of which concern Kuwait).
The majority of the correspondence in the file discusses anti-Kuwaiti newspaper articles printed in the Iraqi press. A number of examples of these articles are contained in the file including some original cuttings (ff. 112a-112d).
The following topics of particular interest are also discussed in the file:
- The possibility of the Ottoman Bank or the Imperial Bank of Persia establishing a branch in Kuwait (f. 22, 26, 55, 60, 61, 97-99).
- The right of British subjects to trade in Kuwait (ff. 156-159, f. 164, f.168, f.171, f.181, f.187).
- A complaint made by the Government of Iraq concerning an incursion into Iraqi territory by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ and an armed escort (ff. 201-206).
- The education of Kuwaiti students in Iraq (ff. 122-23, f. 127).
- A proposed hunting trip by Shaikh Aḥmad to Amara in Iraq (ff. 188-189, ff. 192-193, ff. 197-200).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (235 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of the topics discussed in the file is included on folio 1B.
Serial numbers refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file: red for incoming, blue for outgoing correspondence.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound correspondence volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found 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 file contains the following foliation errors: 1, 1A, 1B and 1C; 112, 112A, 112B, 112C and 112D; 121 and 121A and the following omissions: 65; 179-181
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- Title
- 'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1cv, 2r:3v, 4v:44v, 45v, 48v:57v, 58v:64v, 66r:70v, 72v, 73v, 76v:81v, 85v, 89v:93v, 96v:104v, 105v, 108v, 111v:115v, 117v:119v, 122r:124v, 126v:131v, 132v:137v, 138v:147v, 151v:155v, 157v:158r, 158r:159r, 159r:160v, 163v:178v, 182r:194v, 195v:215r, 215r:228v, back-i
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