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'Historical Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928' [‎43v] (93/188)

The record is made up of 1 volume (90 folios). It was created in 1928. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1922, or under Article 3 of the new Treaty, when that instrument entered
into force, but regarding it as clearly preferable that the Iraq Government
should, if possible, be induced to honour those undertakings without the
necessity of evoking the Articles of the Treaty to which reference had been
made. No information is available as to any subsequent developments.
(2) Position of Koweit vis-d-vis Iraq.
4(1 Under the engagement of 1914 between His Majesty's Government
and the Sheikh of Koweit, the Principality of Koweit is recognised as an
independent Principality and as entitled to the protection of His Majesty's
Government, by whom, as stated in para. 35 above, the present Koweit-Iraq
boundary was recognised in 1923. Formally, therefore, there is no
question of its absorption by Iraq. The Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian
Gulf has, however, recently drawn attention (as the result of an incident
in which an Iraq officer was alleged to have despatched an Iraq police
inspector to Koweit to arrest and bring back an offender from there)
to the danger ot Koweit and Iraq becoming, in the minds of the native
* Desp. to c.o., 14, April comil 3^nity, unified under British protection. Sir Lionel Haworth remarked 5
1928 p . 2696/28. that it must be an essential part of our policy that Koweit should be
kept apart from Iraq—it is inevitable that it should be the tendency of Iraq
gradually to assimilate Koweit even if there is no conscious knowledge
of the fact among the officials of the Iraq Government. Such tendencies
result, not from direct action, but from psychological factors, from the
dependence of the Sheikh of Koweit upon Iraq for assistance, from the
appointment of Iraq officers to Koweit during the raids, and from the
common interests of people, alike in race and religion^ depending upon the
same market centres and in constant daily communication. It is, indeed,
perhaps the natural development that Koweit should draw close to Iraq
Mlule we are there, but we do not desire her to get so close that, with the
development of time, she would be left there when we leave in spite of our
wishes . . . It is for ns to see . . . that such help as Koweit may
require may be obtained from assistance from our Navy and the trainino- of
hei people and it would be better that such training should be given from
India and not from Iraq. Koweit should be trained to look to His Majesty's
Government and India alone and not to a country under our Mandate."
• T ^ e Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. had earlier in 1928 urged the undesirability
tel. from viceroy to s. of s. ; ' 10ni the point ot view alike of the immediate situation and of our future
f? 1 ; 1 ;. ... policy of linking Iraq and Koweit in the mind ot Ibn Sand by establishina
aj 1 . air base against Akhwan raiders in Koweit territory. He reiterated his
p. 4627. objections in connection with the proposals dealt with in paras. 40 and 41
abcne. On both occasions the Government of India expressed their general
agreement in the view taken by him.
(3) Relations with Persia,
48. No question affecting the relations between Koweit and Persia
appears to have arisen in the period now under consideration, and it would
be unnecessary to refer to the relationship between the two countries were
it not for the information which has recently been received that a Persian
instruction has been issued to the local Persian officials in the Gulf that the
I ersian Government can recognise no Arab rulers on the Arab coast of the
tu J ], and that all persons belonging to and arriving from Koweit (as from
Muscat, Lahreip and the Trucial Sheikhdoms) are to be considered Persian
subjects, and Persian passports to be issued to them.
49. It js impossible at the present stage to estimate the importance to be
a ac lec to the information quoted above. It may, however, be placed on
record that no evidence has been traced of effective exercise in the past of
ersian authority m Koweit. The two incidents on which a Persian claim
might possibly be based are—first, that Koweit was regarded in 1775 as a
dependency of Basra and that a claim might therefore be put forward in
view ot the fact that Persia had occupied that town from 1775 to 1779, even
t ough I ersian authority does not appear in the same period to have extended
to xvoweit. I he second and more important incident is that of 1899. In
Lor. i, 146, 1002.
Lor. i, 1025.

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The volume is entitled Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1907-1928 (printed by the Committee of Imperial Defence, October 1928).

Includes sections on The Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia (Nejd [Najd]), Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Muscat, and Bahrein [Bahrain].

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1 volume (90 folios)
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There is a table of contents at the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 90 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff. 1, 1A; ff. 86, 86A. Two folios, f. 3 and f. 4 have been reattached in the wrong order, so that f. 4 precedes f. 3. The following map folios need to be folded out to be examined: f. 87, f. 88.

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