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'File 86/1 VII (D 101) Kuwait Oil' [39r] (92/506)
The record is made up of 1 volume (249 folios). It was created in 9 Apr 1934-30 Jun 1934. 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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Telegram XX.
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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.
, Kuwait.
To Political Kesident, -Bushire,
im o. 162
Dated 3rd received 4tJi May 1934.
Kuwait Oil negotiators report that
tJaey Jtiave received strongly worded letter from Shaikh
dated 28th April to the effect that they have already
been informed of Shaikh's minimum financial and other
demands which they must consider as final. That
they must obtain telegraphic instructions from their
Lonflon principals as to whether his terms are acceptable
or not as further delay is useless.
2. I take serious view of letter and
think Shaikh may break off negotiations unless something
is done by London quickly to relieve situation.
It seems alear now that Secretary
h ; of State* s telegram i^o. 962 greatly disturbed Shaikh
who is still further irritated by latest instructions
*
regarding neutral zone delivered by me on April 28th as
seeming to doubt his previous assurances.
4. I suggest that the best way to restore
situation now is for negotiators to be given entirely
free hand to revise or omit offending clauses and settle
all financial terms direct with Shaikh.
Shaikh told me this morning that
other Company was pressing to start negotiations.
14
Political
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The volume contains correspondence 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 (Harold Richard Dickson); 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. (Trenchard Craven Fowle); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); Officials in the India and Foreign Offices (including Sir Louis Kershaw, John Gilbert Laithwaite, George Rendel); the Shaikh of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ); the Air Ministry (Wilfred Ashton McLaughry); the Air Office Commanding, Iraq (Alexander Duncan Cunningham); and representatives of the Kuwait Oil Company (Frank Holmes, Archibald Chisholm), Arabian Development Syndicate, Anglo-Persian Oil Company, and Iraq Petroleum Company.
The correspondence relates primarily to the Kuwait Oil Company's negotiation's with His Majesty's Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait for the Kuwait (also given as Koweit) Oil Concession, focusing on discussions around clauses in both the Commercial and Political Agreements and the Shaikh's concerns over how certain clauses may be perceived both within his own country and in neighbouring ones.
Also discussed are developments in Saudi Arabia with regards to their share of the Nejd-Kuwait Neutral Zone Oil Concession, which was being competed for by the Standard Oil Company of California and the Arabian Development Syndicate, and the British Government's opinions on the situation and their intended approach with regards to the Kuwait share of the concession. The information relating to the Saudi Government's approach to the concession is relayed through letters and reports from Sir Andrew Ryan, HM Minister at Jedda, and contain details of his discussions with representatives of both the Saudi Government and the oil companies.
The correspondence also includes a discussion relating to land at Shuwaikh, identified by the British Government for possible use as an air base, and includes negotiations over the cost of renting the site or the possibility of reserving it for future use. Also included are details of reconnaissance undertaken by the Air Officer Commanding for alternative sites, which was unsuccesful, and correspondence regarding the use of Kuwait Harbour for flying boats and the need to identify suitable locations in the Harbour for moorings.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (249 folios)
- Arrangement
The contents of this volume have been arranged mostly in chronological order.
Folios 236-241 contain file notes detailing each letter contained within the volume, and giving the page numbers each letter commences on enabling the notes to be used as an index.
Some of the letters refer to earlier correspondence in previous volumes, and provide a page and volume reference in order for the earlier correspondence to be identified.
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Foliation: The volume has been foliated in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio with a pencil number enclosed in a circle. The foliation sequence commences on the first folio after the front cover, with 1A and concludes on the back cover with number 246. Foliation anomalies: 1A-E.
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- 'File 86/1 VII (D 101) Kuwait Oil'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1ar:1ev, 2r:54v, 55v:153v, 172v:245v, 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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