"ملف 53/32 V (D 128) مسائل متنوعة خاصة بالكويت" [و‎‎٧‎١] (٤٧٤/١٥٢)

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Translation of an article from the n iil-Bilad Tt newspaper
of Baghdad, No*618, dated the 7th august 1955.
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A writer frcm Basra says:-
"I have learnt from a reliable source that the
Shaikh of Kuwait's visit to London is connected with the
politics of his country, and especially with a new plan
which the British Government desire to introduce into
Kuwait, where their policy has hitherto been based upon
the principle of non-interference with internal affairs.
The British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
it seems, visited Kuwait and told Shaikh iihmad al Jabir,
shortly before the latter left for London, that the
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British Government were no longer in a position to resist
the protests that came to them without number from
Governments which were adjacent to or near to Kuwait,
dealing with the many either claims preferred by their
subjects, or with the smuggling movement which has reached
an alarming state, as the British Resident's repeated
warnings to the Shaikh of Kuwait, which all urged the
necessity of reforming and reorganizing the administration
in Kuwait, have been of no avail, the British Government
considers that it would be in the interest of Kuwait that
the latter should accept the form of administration which
was sometime ago introduced in Bahrain, and which resulted
in a settled state of affairs there, i.e. that Kuwait
should accept British advisers to supervise its
administration, especially finance and justice.
The Resident also told the Shaikh that he had
received several applications fran the enlightened young-
men of Kuwait, all of which stated that they (the applicants)
were tired of the prevalent conditions in Kuwait, and