"ملف ٩/٤ I العلاقات الأنجلو-كويتية" [و‎‎٩‎٩] (٤٣٦/٢٠٦)

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latter that *e refmrd the queetior of his co r res port derice
Xunait Oil ne^otiatiops are in progress I an of opinion
that this question of correspondence had better not be
pursued for the present. ^ think however that at an
appropriate moment something mipht be done on the lines
surested in mra^rraph 4 of 31 r Andren Cyan’s ^espatch
Ho.84 of f?9th March 1934 to the ? oreirm Office. Would
it not be practicable to intiuate to Tbn Baud and the
Bhatkh that official letters from Thn Baud to the Bhaikh
nou3d to be shown to the British Minister, and letters
from the Bhaikh to Ibn Baud would have to be shown to the
Political Affeut. ^irther that any letter not so shewn
not be invoked against either His Majesty’s (>ov!?rpment.
impressing on Tbn Baud our npecial relate ors with vuwait.
and protecting the interests of His MaJeety*s Government,
mipht at the seme time tend to ruffle the susceptibilities
of both poterta 4, es less than the sonewhat ha'n! and fast
the two Bulers. T do not think, as - pointed out at tie
end of naraitraph ? (l) of my letter quoted above, that
any system we could devise would prevent ^private and
with Ibn Baud as of importance
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In view of not worrying the Shaikh while the
would be considered of a purely private nature and could
or either partv.
It seems to me that this procedure while
procedure to which the 'haikh has reac*so unfavourably.
8, With regard to Bir Andrew Hyan f s further renarfe
on the difficulty of checking private cor res po thence between
personal V