'File 6/7 I Kuwait landing ground' [‎120r] (244/524)

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Adastral House,
KiuBgS«riiy*
E9tH June, 1954.
Hy tiecur LaitluyafM,
X, will you please refer to Colonel f owls 1 © despatch
Ko,S 39 ~S 0 f 7 th June, 1954, under cover of which he forwarded
correspondence relating to the Kuweit* Civil Air Agreeaeiit•
B. In paragraiJi 6 of t)mt despatch the Beeident
suggeste that our offer for an option on the quarantine
site at Lovieit should he raised fro© £100 to £1B0 p*a.
As the treasury authority allowing us to the offer
enables the Air Ministry to pay a mm of about £100 a year
for the reservation of the site we will certainly not allow
the negotiations to fall through over a small addition of
££G per annum if the lie eluent and 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. consider
it necessary to offer the higher figure* fh&t being so,
you can inform the Be si dent that we will be prepared to
pay £120 per annum for reservation of the quarantine site
on the terns previously agreed between us in correspondence
ending with ^ letter S.31084^~^4eir April*
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as" far as paragraphs 4-*■6 of colonel Dickson* s
letter arid per agrees 2-4 of colonel Powle’a letter are
oonoerned, the latter explaina rery clearly the difference
between the position at Bahrain and hoveit.
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4 , Koweit is obTiouely moh saore lively t0 require
B.A.l'. asoistance than Bahrain and has, in fact, been
given such assistance on more than one occasion, and,
therefore, it wars quite as much in the interest of the
Sheikh of Koweit himself as of the B.A.F. that our lending
ground was established in his territory.
5. Moreover, there is a further consideration which
has not been mentioned by the Resident and that is, that
the olvil base at Bahrain is much more important than the
civil landing ground at Koweit. Koweit will provide less
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