'File 2/9 Anti-British propaganda' [‎17r] (38/748)

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IDatacl %h& E4th January 1954.
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From
11.-Coloaa 1 II.B.i .jDi ck son, C.I.l. t X.A. f
Political .Agent, Kuwait;
To
The Hon’ble tlie Political He si dent
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1> u a h i r e .
iunti-British propaguada in the Basra
Newspaper, the Al Thagar.
sir,
T lfith reference to ny Confidential Despatch Bo.
0-10, datad the 14th January 1934, and enclosures, I have
the honour to forward translation of His excellency the
Shaikh’s inspired reply.
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E. As you will observe, the shaikh's article is called t
n A Message From Kuwait n and the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. signs himself ’’From
Your Own Correspondent*.
3. The article is elated the ?th January 1934 and I
consider is to the point, and. does not give away too much..
4. I am sending you four spare copies for distribution
as you consider fit.
5. His rJxcellency the shaikh is of the fixed opinion
(he again broached this matter to rm just before ID -15.1.34-)
that the two articles already sent you ware written with
greater malicious intent than appear® on the surface, and
form part of a widespread campaign against everything British,
which is apparently now going on in Arab speaking countries,
v# were everywhere, said His excellency, being made out to be f
no longer the men of our word , that w« used to be, and that
since the Great rfar, His Majesty's Government had preferred
to follow a policy of ' expediency '. especially with Arab
speaking peoples, rather than do what she knew to be 'xiiSLi*