'File 4/39 Kuwait State: Criticisms against the Sheikh and Government' [‎4r] (7/28)

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Translption of an article published in
" AL ARAB " newspaper of Paris( Editor- Yunis
Bahri) dated 1st February, 1949.
a h:.:ed jabir as sub^h-shaikh of Kuwai t.
He has ^sseh grown very old and becore
broken down with age. n e has been ruling this
Arab State for thirty years, lie has rrj=de his
subjects, whose number is 1000000, look like
ghosts, who think that there is no other village
beyond Abadan.
He gets from the American Oil Companies
who are utulising the oil of the Km.aities, 50
thousand dollars per day, but he still has
not opened a school or built a hospital ot a
mosque. He does not care for anything exept hisi
own affairs, his palaces, his bondmaid and his
American Yacht, whose decoration and furnishing
expenses only amounted to one million dollars.
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Ax e did not contribute toward Palestine and
Palestinian refugees. His Miserliness has become
more famous than Hatim Tay*s generousity.
You ray even hear from his closest friends
xxct attendants that he is very strict in spending
the money as far as they ere concerned, but Jus—^
spends generously on himself and his private
Secretary, Izzat Jafar, who is like the B.B.C.
broadcasting on a wavelength of 20 meters of
lies.
Yhe time has come for this Shaikh to
abdicate e^d give way for Kdtkxx a better and
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