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oi Lne town of Koweit and that ws ars not called upon to
protect Koweit territory as a whole.
Con clusion. ..
15. As will be seen from the correspondence summarised
above (a) we appear consistently to have taken the view that
our obligations are conditional on the good behaviour of the
Sheikh; (b) secondly, subject to this reservation, we
are committed to "good offices' 5 in respect of "Koweit H ,
an assurance which has since 1911 been accepted as extending
to the whole territory of the Sheikhdom, but which would not
commit us to anything further than dijjlomatic support;
(c) thirdly,
we have pro mi sed "that the town of Koweit
and its boundaries" "belong to " the heirs of Sheikh liobarak;
(while the payment of rent for the Bunder Snweikh■ site was
terminated in 1907, the Agreement of 1907 was not abrogated,
and the reciprocal pledges embodied in that Agreement should
apparently still be regarded as binding in so far as they
are not affected by other subsequent instruments, he
communicated Article IX of the Bunder Shweikh Agreement to Ibn
Baud in 1928: and in 1933 the P.A.Koweit and tne Political
Resident brought to notice the continued e: istence of ohe yf
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obligations of the Sheikh in regard uo Customs duuies(para.^
above) under Article X of the Agreement) (b) fourthly,that
we have undertaken to recognise, and have in iacu re cognised,
Koweit as an independent principality under British
protection. No definition has been given or attempted of ^ne
meaning of "British protection" in this connection, ana anile
priim facie the Sheikh might apparently be justified in
claiming that it represented an assurance of effective
protection in respect of the Vnole of nis principality, there
is some room for discussion as to its precise implicationo,
and it is noteworthy that no appeal rppears uo have been mc^ae
. under it either by the present Sheikh or by his predecesbors.
-NDIa OFFICE, 11 Oct. 1933, J.G. LAITH';/aITx, .