مجموعة ١٠/١٧(٣) "شؤون داخلية: الوضع السياسي؛ العلاقات مع الحكومة البريطانية" [و‎‎٣‎٨] (٥١٣/٧٥)

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With th« Compliments
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t^ui,AM.e. Sir B< Nevrton
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31st March, 194-1. R. 11.25 p.m.
31st March, 1941.
2nd April, 1941.
• Repeated to Cairo No. 92
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SECRET
Regent yesterday sent me news that a few days ago an order
had been issued transferring Kamil Shabib (one of the four
leaders of military clique) to Mwanmajh to the command of
division there and that he refused to obey. The Prime Minister
had thereupon asked the Regent to receive these four officers,
to accept apology from them and thereafter to consider the
affair of their conduct during the last crisis as closed.
Regent had not accepted this proposal.
This morning I visited Minister for Foreign Affairs and
the Prime Minister who gave me a different account of the
situation. They stated that the Prime Minister had refused
request of the four officers to cancel the order transferring
Kamil Shabib to Diwanmajh but that Kamil had been granted
three weeks leave as the officer commanding Diwanmajh had advised
that owing to Rashid Ali’s intrigues among local tribes a
change of commanders was for the moment inexpedient. Prime
Minister assured me that in the meantime Kamil was not in
command of his former division.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs explained that the
Government felt obliged to proceed cautiously in dealings with
military clique because Rashid Ali .was trying to organise new
political party and they did not wish to have too much on their
hands at once. The Government had decided to refuse permission
for the formation of this party.
Shortly after my return from these visits the Regent sent
me further message to the effect that the Prime Minister with
[grp. unde. J and the Presidents of the Senate and Chamber had
all visited the Palace this morning and had endeavoured to
persuade/