"ملف ٥/٢ VIII حدائق تمور الشيخ." [و‎‎٦‎٢] (٦٤٦/١٢٨)

MIHOTa.
At my Int+rriew with thw : rim l lalater thi» laomln^
he loft me m opening to bring up th© ^uootlon of tho proper*
tl ©8 of the t>holkh of KOWlt In XmM|» X hmd intended to
omit the mmmr of tho i’orol^n ijftim to m telegram
before epproooklng him furthor, but &m he emtmd to be in
reeeptire mood, 1 aelsted the opportunity to review the whelm
*1 tom turn, working up finally to foreign Offioe telegram Ko.
133 md mentioning the feet thmt X hed aokod for tho
Ambeeeedoe'e oonfirxmtim of ’furl** ad location that a wi^al
undor*tacndlng had boon raaoftwwX between tho "rtno itlnlatar and
the Abmemdor, the of foot of *hieh erne that the h&lkh
ahould eooe$ t our tmuggling prepomle of loot yoar me a prior
condition of the application of Land Settlement to hie pro
perties* X said that as regards this latter, 1 erne perfectly
mire that no mtoh understating had been readied*
The } rime Minister h&stexied to tell ne that l^sri Bald
meet hare mimmderetood whet the Prims Minister had told his*
He said that at a recent taUt with the Ambememdor, he (the
Trine Ministor) had atrem»ed hie deal ;*e to liquidate ell out
standing questions with the Bhaiich of 1 oweit, of which
smuggling was, from his point of view, the most imortmtp
and it had been arranged that a sort of round table talk
should take plaoo at e&me future date* At that tine he had
had the question of the rhaikh’e properties in mind in thie
connexion, but obviously the ^aaeador had not* To this
extent, therefore. It was not oorreot to eay that he was
risking it a hard md fast condition that the two things
should be discussed together, «athough he would have liked
it to be so* He said that ernes the question of the ihalkh’s
properties, etc. was settled, there would probably be m
inducement for the ihaikh to change his attitude towards the
Iraqi ^veiment, which at preewnt was tmmt unhelpful md
e&ibmrrmeingt md free this point of view alone he did not
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