'File 5/C Kuwait Najd Boundary' [‎30v] (60/468)

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gifts upon them especially when Government saw that they only 'got in return
contumacy, intrigue and rebellion. Arabs could not be well governed except
by force mixed with justice. . Constitutional Government such as was being thought
ol for Iraq will only bring more trouble and unrest and entail serious consequences
winch were not dreamed of at present. 1
I here tried to put in a few words about the British having accepted a moral
responsibility, as a Mandatory Power, of administering the country with the heio
and co-operation of the natives and gradually training them to look after their
own affairs and that this was the matured judgment of the League of Nations
and Peace Conference, etc., etc.
Bin Sand, however went on with his usual flow of eloquence. “ Look at the
Uiarit he said and his sons Faisal and Abdullah, what are they doing now ?
I know tor certain that they are extremely pampered (as they are) by the British
Uovernment. 1 hey are actually intriguing against and vilifying the English in
Ifejaz, in Syria and Palestine and in Iraq ”. No one, he said, cared for or Luted
either the Sharif or any of his sons ; still Government made so much of them and
would go on supporting them He had himself received letters and secret pamph
lets from Faisal tempting and cajoling him to join them ; but he could not possibly
Britki C He could not afford P be . “^faithful to his pledges or be disloyal to the
British Government as long as they did not break their treaty with him ' He has
been always true to his word and will always be so, because his religion enforces
qlLLkum” y rBe faltMultofh eqU ff ‘ r0m ^ “Fastaqimu lahummasta-
are faithM to yiu] faItMul to them < who are “ with you) as long as they
., He himself on the contrary , was not cared for by Government i • T
sidy was stopped for two months which act of Government <mve him a™
chagrin. He had been granted this comparatively little monetary heln (\’»r g f eate 1 st
vah) that is the subsidy in return for great sacrifices he had made
He had only for their sake given up for ever the rich tem^TotKleltTr-^
Qatai and Oman all of which were his as having been conauerred hv ] ' ’
Faisal He could take possession of these lancfs aTany timeTn'the past^and in^tb 1
future but he must refrain from any such action which is eontr-.rvt,, * n
opposed to the interests of his friend, the British Government h7i * treaty and
received letters from Syria, from Mosul and from Baghdad iSf bSvinL • 6 T ^
over these places and rule over them Or help them in establishing ti° • S 1Iln to taI;o
mnnt. He refused to listen to these appealsPaniHLS 'ff^LLLn^r' 6 ^'
Lr en at the present moment he has delegates here from Svrii He • f 1 8 sake -
difficulties and is doing his best; but he is disregarded W P beS6t wlth tte8 «
help him, and at the same time he is caUed ™Tto ill em ? ent who do
task of holding in check a most turbulent masLof P m en tbe i ? l P ossibI e
(Aknwan) whose numbers now come to no less than 100.000 men m ^f da y ,,1 f h ”
Is ejd is now by virtue of the religious awakeninv, “ b’arkat ',] ^ "'Me of
united as if all were one heart and soul and, as is too well known S ° a ° SeIy
other people as kafir wa mushrik ” (heretics and polvTw!, 7 rega J rd , ever y
whose lives and properties were “ halal ” (allowable) toVem m ° r ldoI \ ter8 )
these fiery warriors m their burning religious zeal to snre^ 0 it : W h ,° c °u W check
all who are near and around them ? Who can cheek tit t r Cre< j; and conquer
Aziz ? They are all hungry (ja’anin) in 7anttf ftd a nd“bth.L n Go f. and Abdul
.tC is at bis wits end how to supply their w-int<? if ^ •,, . ^nd money and
that he hasbeen doing so far wXht any outside g f r6atest difficult?
m whose interests as welks his own, he was straining every newt’” 1 Go , Vernment
fully and satisfactorily ashar al lail wa ajua bil naher ^ " er '' eto work success-
mg.,t and remaining hungry and abstaining from food by day 6 '’ pasSln S sleepless
And what did His Majesty’s Government do ? Thev out In' - i
common, almost insignificant, little chief, a Badu in Peho.l a . • do "' n as a
nothing of the world. Thev regarded him as a iuoior „ tral Aral,I a who knew
whom they have made into'” Malik Husain ” and ret thisH * Vaasal *° tbe Sharif
a subject of the Turks, called only “ Sharif Mecca • ?, Was stl11 yesterday
with a Qaim Maqam’s rank. He Sharif is Amir Hejait ”
and given all material help to an extent that he isLtLt hiSlNi m ° ney
11 ^ 11 ving m comfort