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'File 4/31 Correspondence re Activities of Abdullah Mulla Saleh' [3r] (5/28)
The record is made up of 1 file (12 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1945-22 Apr 1945. 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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This letter addressed to me, ostersibly by His ifec
Highness, instead of the usual letter from His Highness
forwarding the remarks of the Head of the Rationing
Committee as at page 4, is the result of a struggle between
Abdulla Mulla - a merchant himself and very much interested
- and Abdulla Salim, in which Abdulla Mulla was able to get
His Highness to side with him. The reason is not far to
seek. His Highness employs Abdulla Mulla as his Secretary
without paying him any salary. Abdulla Hulla is expected
• to work and to maintain a staff of clerks for no cash
remuneration. His remuneration is made in the form of
trade privileges and political employment - as laboufc
adviser - with the oil and sulphur companies for which, at
His Highness insistence, he gets considerable salaries. This
is just one illustration of the evils of a system of
Government run on a no-cost basis. Unless the P.A. insists
there will be no control of prices. I have arranged with
Abdulla Salim, however, that the Cloth Corporation shall
import all the requirements of cloth for rationed
distribution so that such essentials as chafias and
mosquito netting will be available at controlled prices.
Please see also in this connection my letter at page 2 of
File 27/88. The only Import Assistance Recommendations
thfct will be given for cloth to other merchants for the
second half of 1945 will be to enable them to clear orders
already placed and paid for.
On further consideration I am now opposed to trying to con-
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trol the prices of other goods from the United Kingdom. I
think is a better policy to try to get more goods. For thas
purpose I have asked for 100 tons instead of 50 for July -
December 1945. Bahrain whose population is about the
same as Kuwait’s, has 400 tons. The disparity i*s quite
unjustifiable, as this tonnage is for goods otner than
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the activities of the Ruler of Kuwait's Secretary, Abdulla Mulla Saleh. Specifically, the correspondence discusses allegations that Saleh, who was also a private merchant, was abusing his position and his proximity to the ruler for his own commercial interests.
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- 1 file (12 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 14; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 2-13 and ff 6-11; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/5/219
- Title
- 'File 4/31 Correspondence re Activities of Abdullah Mulla Saleh'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 12r:13v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence