مجموعة ٩/٣٠(٢) "تقارير إدارية عن الخليج الفارسي - ١٩٤٥ -" [و‎‎٤‎٦‎٢] (١١٤٨/٩٢٣)

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p-ftYltf^S ^tpoYlS
Shaikh Muhammad al Jahir - Port Director.
Shaikh Haraood al Jabir - President of the
Municipality.
(h) Shaikh AMulla As Salim, C.I.E., paid a short
visit to Syria from 18th July to 15th August.
(c) ShaiKh Ali al Khalifah left for Syria on the 25th
August for sanatorium treatment. He returned on the 15th
December.
III . THH POIJTTCHI H^T -TTOTTS
The Political Agent's relations with the Shaikh have
remained cordial. His Highness places the war needs oC
Great Britain before everything else and has always shown
his willingness to cooperate.
IV. LOGM IiTTSaHISTS .
Kuwait politics have been remarkably quiet in spite of
the disturbances which took place in Iraq in the early summer
The war has brought prosperity to the Kuwait merchants and
they have become more and more concerned .dth their own
affairs and have taken less and less interested in the
domestic politics of the house of ?ubah. This does not mean
that the anti-3haikh elements have been entirely ilie, far
from it, but it does mean that they have been unable to
obtain any of the influential support so necessary to a
successful opposition.
The May
in Iraq caused mild excitement in
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Kuwait and the anti-3haikh, ani therefore anti-British,
party gained the, as it turned out, temporary allegiance
of a number of waverers and His Highness appeared pre
occupied in public, but it was a very minor affair and when
Rashid Ali retired into Iran the pro-Nazis resumed their
occupation of listening to Yunis Bahri in the seclusion of
their private houses. The Shaikh and his followers were
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triumphant arti Shaikh \bdullah Salim, the heir presumptive, '
retired to his estates on Halaicha Island. The Iraqi
refugees, of whom there were a considerable number,
regretted that they had changed their dinars into rupees at