"١/١ المجلد I العلاقات الكويتية السعودية" [و‎‎١‎٨‎١] (٦٠٨/٣٧٢)

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He stated with some e&otion th t he had received the meet
desperate appeals from these XvimAu of his for assistance,
which appeals it had wrung his heart to refuse. lie also
informed me that - at the same period - he had received
confidential and urgent exhortations from the highest (Iraqi)
quarters In Iraq to assist the rebels to the best of his
abili ty in order that I bn .laud should be definitely son shed*
that they • the highest quarters - could do nothing, because
of the ittglish, but that if he - the hhaikh - would taKt
action they would help hi® secretly* . nd what - Hio
excellency asked me - had he gained by standing firm against
those appeals and exhortations ? Ibn 3aud*s blockade, instead
of ceasing, had increased in severity, and was literally Strang
ling Kuwait to death. Moreover, His Excellency pointed out,
his own notables in Kuwait were continually attacking him on
the subject of His Kajcsty*s Government’e attitude. * fou
stand by the English Government * they sneered, ” *hat has
the English Government done for you in the matter of your date
gardens, or in th© matter of 1 bn Gaud’s blockade, which is now
ruining us ?*
4. I cannot say that - es His iCajesty’s Government’s h
local representative • X enjoyed our conversation® on these ^
subjects, or that I particularly like repeating them for His
Majosty’s Government’s information, but 1 would fall in my
duty if 1 did not report whet His Excellency’s feelings are.
An 1 hrvt already indicated, X found it difficult to give j
replies to His Excellency’s complaints. The line X I** 0 *
was two-fold. First - that I would report the gist of His
Excellency's views - which X have done, and second - that
Kuwait - placed between two more powerful neighbours, ilejd
and Iraq - needed a strong friend, and that - from the long
point ef view - this friend was undoubtedly the British
Government •
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