"ملف II. العراق (٣) المجلد ١ بساتين التمر العائدة لشيخ الكويت في شط العرب. (علاقات الكويت مع الحكومة التركية والمطالبة التركية بضرورة استخراج الكويتيين شهادات الجنسية التركية)" [و‎‎٦‎٢] (٦٣٦/١٢٧)

difficulty being made presumably because Hamid-al-Khalid had already taken out
a Nationality certificate. The Sheikh said that his sons had not taken out
certificates as is suggested likely in Mr. Crow’s despatches quoted above.
11. In discussing the matter, I informed the Sheikh that before His
Majesty s Ambassador could even be asked to move on his behalf the very
fullest information would be necessary, and seeing that all local efforts had
apparently been unsuccessful it would be advisable to obtain from Constanti
nople, perhaps through Ahmad Pasha az-Zuhair, details of what had passed
there with regard to the matter. The Sheikh agreed to try and obtain the
further information.
12. Meanwhile this report of the present situation is forwarded with the
hope that Government being put in possession of all that is available may be
able to re-examine a question which presents a very thorny problem and which
will require a solution if the independence of the Ituler of Koweit is to mean
anything more than the inaccessibility or freedom of his port from Turkish
aggression and, it may be added, if our position in Koweit is to be made secure
from incessant Turkish intrigue.