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‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’ [223r] (456/608)
The record is made up of 1 volume (294 folios). It was created in 2 Mar 1929-9 Jul 1933. 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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.1514/55•
2 ^rd March, 1935 *
Sir,
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Jh reply to your letter of the 6th March,
33, I am directed by the Secretary of State for
India to say that he appr ecfates the reasons for the
reluctance of the Sheihh of Kowext definitely to commit
himself on the subject of his correspondence of February
1932 with Ibn Saud. As Sir Philip Cunliffe-lister is
aware, he feels much sympathy with the Sheihh of Koweit
and attaches importance to doing anything possible to meet
his legitimate case in regard to the Saudi blockade on
his land frontier. But he feels strongly at the same
time that if the Sheikh wishes His Majesty’s Government
to fight the case for him His Excellency must be prepared
to come into the open, and either face the risk of
causing offence to Ibn Saud (who has not shown himself
unduly tender of Koweiti susceptibilities or interests in
recent years) or preferably cease to pursue the point
regarding the #aid claims now in issue. He is not disposed
to regard the establishment of a committee to give a
ruling on the meaning of the correspondence now in question
as a satisfactory solution of the difficulty which has
arisen.
Departments Sir S. Hoare is inclined in these circumstances
to think that the Sheikh should be informed that His
Majesty’s Government cannot regard the suggestion of a
r
2* Subject to the views of the other interested
.er Secretary of State
Colonial office.
committee/
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Papers concerning relations between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), and a trading blockade imposed on Kuwait by the King of Hejaz and Nejd (from September 1932, the King of the Arab Sa’udite Kingdom [Saudi Arabia]) ‘Abdul ‘Aziz bin ‘Abdur Rahman al-Faisal [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)].
The volume includes:
- Correspondence exchanged between British officials in London ( 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. , Foreign Office), the 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. at Kuwait (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson) and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe; Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle).
- Correspondence exchanged between the 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. at Kuwait and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ].
- Copies of correspondence (translated into English) exchanged between the Ruler of Kuwait and the King of Hejaz and Nejd.
- Copies of food prices lists, issued by the Arabia Saoudiyah [Saudi Arabia] Government, and published in the Um-Alkura [ Umm-al-Qura ] newspaper in May 1933 (ff 280-283).
Some of the volume’s correspondence is in Arabic, accompanied by English translations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (294 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 294; 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.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the six leading and ending flyleaves.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 3-294; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- ‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:9v, 11r:21v, 24r:24v, 27r:40v, 42r:43v, 52r:59v, 65r:86v, 88r:88v, 99r:157v, 161r:166v, 172r:175v, 177r:194v, 197r:206v, 211r:216v, 221r:249v, 262r:279v, 284r:294v, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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