"الملف 26/185 V (F 96) شيخ المحمرة" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٤] (٤٧٢/٣١٥)

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Tro-nblation ol letter dated 11.4.46 from Abdulla ..W
al Kliazo-al, fvu^ait, to h.!>,I»i'& Gon&ul-(}eneral in the
Persian Gulf.
Through H.M's Political Agent, Kuwait.
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After offering great re&pects,
In continuation of uany communications with the
authorities of your Great Government, and having not
received any satisfactory reply or any fruitful result, I
was obliged to submit this letter to Your Excellency, ex
plaining clearly and briefly what I have to say.
^our Excellency. I arid my family have been suffe
ring f01 a/any years, various injustices and oppressions,
the humiliating and .vron^iui. effects of which we have borne
patiently; and we hqve been driven away and pursued; and
we have lost many chances of recovering what was forcibly
ta-ien away from us. In addition to all this, we were
prepared to shake hands with the Iranian authorities and
co-operate with them, according to the wishes of your (ireat
Government to whom, we are bound with promises and covenants,
while all our equals, either loyal or disloyal to you, '
have seized that opportunity without giving a damn for any
one and regained by sword what was forcibly taken from, them
and they have become semi-independent in their territories
where their influance runs, having se^f government, in spite
of the existance of the government authority in those
territories. But we, who consider ourselves more deser
ving from all points of view, whether elemental or other
wise, are still living in hopes and imaginations; testing
the bitterness of material and mental humilation.
As we are not in a position to remind or to censure,
but we are in a position of declaring the facts, thus I
am bothering you with this letter saying:-
Things have reached a cli ax and the noose is being
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