'File 4/39 Kuwait State: Criticisms against the Sheikh and Government' [‎8r] (15/28)

Translation of an article published in A1 Arab
Weekly Newspaper, Paris owned by Yunus Bahry in issue
No.55 dated 3rd Rabia-Al Thani, 1368.
AMIR OF KUWAIT SHAIKH AHMED AL JABIR AL SUBAH
A Shaikh who has become very old and weak, has ruled
this Arab State for 30 years and has made of his people,
who total 100,000, phantoms who believe that there is no
village beyond Abadan.
He receives from the American Oil Companies, who are
benefiting from the oil which belongs to the people of
Kuwait, 50 thousand dollars per day, but no school has been
opened nor has a hospital nor a mosque been built and he
cares not but for himself, his palaces, his concubines and
his American yacht which alone with its decorations and
furnishings is worth one miilion dollars.
He has not donated anything to save Palestine nor
has he contributed a mouthful of bread to our unfortunate
brothers the refugees. The miserliness of this shaikh has
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become better than the generosity of "Hatim Tai" .
You will even hear his relations grumbling at his ex
treme miserliness towards them and at his disposition to
wards himself and his private secretary (Izzat Jafar).
He is like the B.B.C., spreads his empty propaganda
of a string of lies on a wave length of 20 metres.
It is time to abdicate his Office of State in favour
of another better and more useful than himself.