"الملف 53/54 V (D 129) حصار الكويت" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٨] (٣٨٤/٢٥٩)

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C01?I2a,"riAL. POLITICAL AG3NCY,
No.C-298. , Ctjo-f ('A- KU'^alT.
S 17til Oc ' tob6r 1926*
?rom
Captain G.S.de Gaury, M.C.,
Political Agent, Kuwait;
To V /
Tiie Hon^le the Political Resident:.—
in the Persian Oulf, Bush ire.
Jir,
KUWAIT - BLOCKADE.
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I have-' the honour to refer to your letter No,0-195
of the 2nd October 1956 and to say that I have ascertained
His Excellency the Shaiich's reactions to the first four
paragraphs of the Saudi Note and that he has in this connectlet
written to me a letter k copy of which is attached.
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2 # On handing His Excellency the copy of the first
four paragraphs of the Saudi Note I pointed ^o what I said
was an obvious slip in drafting in the penultimate sentence
of para 2 of the note*
The sentence beginning n No bedouin" as it stood
would mean if accepted, that no Bedouin even a Kuwaiti camped
within two miles of the walls, could leave Kuwait without
a pass from a Saudi Arab official. His iixcellency on reauing
it said immediately "Not a slip but intentional".
His Excellency in conversation later informed me
that he feared that Ibn Saud instead of being content with
the quite adequate regulations devised was, by an amendment,
trying to achieve not simply the end of the blootode but
increased influence and con tool over Kuwait.
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3o His demand for an official to accompany the
, dictated by this reason. Most
caravans was he thought qic
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caravans would start from j i