"ملف ٨/٣ شؤون أولاد الشيخ خزعل." [و‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٥٠٨/٢٢٩)

Office of fee Political Agent,
Kuwait, Camp wuetta>
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Dated the 14 th August, 1946 .
Sub i ect: - AbdullahKhazal
Ibr dear Colonel,
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Please refer to your demi-official letter No. C /581 dated the
2 nd August, 1946 .
2 . I am afraid I dont know how many dependents Abdullah Khazal has
and shall have tc make enquiries on this point after my return to
Kuwait. The amount of allowance to be recommended should bear a imm*
relation to Hie nunber of his dependents and it is difficult to »ooo»»
rnmi. a figure without knowing this. I have not liked to discuss the
subject with anyone in Kuwait for fear of starting rumours, but my
own idea is that if he has no dependents he should be offered about
E 500 /- per month. Ee will presumably take a wife and possibly
children and servants and, if so, should be offered moire in pro
portion. I do not see much prospect of persuading him to agree to
anything less.
3 . I am certain that Shaikh Ahmed would never consent to hjfcing;
Abdullah Khazal removed forcibly. Hie latter has invoked thoTArab
law of " and has taken refuse with Shaikh Ahmed who in there
fore bound to protect him - with nis life if necessary. Should he
allow him to be deported forcibly he would never recover his prestige
throughout the Arab peninsular. The ca.se o 1 f f Ibn Saud and Fhshid
’Ali is an exact parallel. I feel it would be a mistake to asK him
to do this.
4 . I regret that, ushen I left Kuwait, the indications were that
Shaikh Ahmed has not helped Abdullah Kaazal financially as he told
me he would, and that the latter is running into debt.
5 . Abdullah Khazal has nimself pointed out that rebellions cannot
be started by beggars - at least not in Persia. Effectively to raise
the Arab tribes ox Khuzistan ne would need some hundreds of
thousands of Tomans apart from arms and ammunition. He is therefore
not really dangerous at present although, if driven desperate by
poverty, ne mimt make a "suicide* attack" on Khuzistan as the best
way out of his difficulties. I do not think that this fact is
sufficiently appreciated by the Embassies at Baghdad a^d Tehran.
Yours sincerely,
fee Hon’ble Lt- Colonel W*R. Hay, C.S.I.,
Political Resident in the
Persian Gulf, Camp Bahrain .
'ble Lt- Colonel I*R. Hay
Political Resident in th
M.B.