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'File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier' [57r] (113/440)
The record is made up of 1 file (218 folios). It was created in 21 Nov 1939-7 Nov 1949. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Per sonal•
Confidential.
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Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
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Bushire, the 16th duly, 1940.
My dear Galloway,
i am not very happy about the facte disclosed in
your demi-official letter ITo.C/323, dated the 9th July 1940,
regarding the signboard on the Kuv/ait-Iraq frontier. In the
first place it was obvious that the board was to be erected
on the exact spot which it had formerly occupied, and before
asking you to replace it i told you that Dickson could show
where it had been and asked you to confirm it. lou did not
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do this but told me in reply that the Shaikh knew where it
was. Prom your demi-official letter ho.C/293 of 20th June
1940, you apparently took neither of them with you, though
Dickson has ample leisure, and left the cementing to some
one else to do. it now appears that you cannot say for
certain that you did replace the beard on the exact spot,
or even that you carried out Dickson’s instructions, and to
make matters worse you informed the BrA-i-ok Embassy of your
doubts. §urely you realised that the fixing or re-fixing
of a frontier boundary mark is a matter for the most
meticulous accuracy ?
2. Secondly you tell me that you think it would be unwise
for me to ask you to go out again ’’to fix the frontier” at
Safwan exeex-t in conjunction with the Iraqi Government.
¥ ou are, of course, correct in, giving me your viev/s but you
are BRl correct in repeating them to the Bagdad Embassy as
this has the effect of committing me in advance on a matter of
policy where i may think differently.
Y ours^s4iicerely.
Major A.C.Galloway, I .A., • '
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.
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This file contains correspondence regarding the demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait frontier including issues related to a disagreement between the governments of Iraq and Kuwait regarding the location of a specific border marker, smuggling between the two countries and the development of Umm al-Qasr port in Iraq and the potential implications thereof.
The primary correspondents in the file are British officials from the Foreign Office, the 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. , the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the British Embassy in Baghdad and the British Consulate in Basra.
The file also contains a letter to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait from the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (in Arabic with English translation) and a limited amount of correspondence with the Government of Iraq (folios 46 and 110).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-219; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/5/185
- Title
- 'File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:36v, 38r:45v, 47r:109v, 111r:219v, 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