"ملف ٧/٦ I مهبط الكويت" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٦] (٥٢٤/٢٥٦)

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POLITICAL AGS'ICY,
KUWAIT,
Bated the 19th July 193
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As directed by you when I mentioned the above subje
verbally while at Bushire on Monday last* I am writing to
you to ask sanction for proceeding on recess to Shiraz from
Kuwait for on© month in the first place.
How that the Oil negotiations have been suspended
until th© end of September* things are perfectly quiet in
Kuwait.
On© case alone remains to be finished and that is
merely a formality. This is an exchange of letters between
the Political Agent and the Shaikh to ratify his agreement
to grant a 2 years option to the Royal Air T? orce for the
lease of the Shuwaikh area* and at the same time obtain his
formal agreement to rent that same area to the Royal Air ore
at £.1800 1" at any period Hla Majesty’s Government nay desire
to take It up, up to the end of the 2 yeara option. |'!
The Shaikh has already signified hla willingness
to conolude the above agreement on terns agreed to by the
Secretary of State and the Air Ministry and colonel . cwle,
in interviews with Colonel Dickson and again with Colonel
Fowle on 17th at Kuwait, vide correspondence ending with
Air Ministry’s Secret letter Ho. 8.81084/?t.iyD.0.I, dated
the 89th June, 193d and Colonel Fowle’s D.O. to you dated
Kuwait the 18th July 1954. ‘ h' n !
The letter to be forwarded to the haikh by the
Political Agent to ratify this agreementjwill of course have
to be approved of by you. j
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The Hon f bl© Lt.-Colonel G.Loch* I.A., ^ ^/, v , ^ ^
Political Resident in the ersian xulf *