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'Final Record of a Meeting Held at the Foreign Office on Thursday October 5th [1933] to Discuss Relations between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Sheikh of Koweit' [10r] (19/50)
The record is made up of 1 file (25 folios). It was created in 11 Oct 1933. 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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v/e should be able to tell Itm Saud openly that v;e were
responsible for defending the Sheikh's interests in any
given dispute,
MR. LAITHVAITE said that the explanation of the
system of direct correspondence betv/een the Sheikh and
Ibn Saud v/as, he thought, that it dated from a time when
the latter wae not so important a ruler as he had since
become and when we had taken the view that it was un
necessary to take too strict a view of correspondence
between Sheikh and Sheikh, That position was now
changed, and reconsideration seemed desirable. Ibn
Saud was well aware both that Kis Majesty 4 s Government
conducted the foreign relations of Koweit and that the
Sheikh had. undertaken certain obligations towards us,.
He agreed that it was now necessary to exert stricter
control over the correspondence in question and to
emphasize our own special position in Koweit vis-a-vis of
Ibn Saud more definitely than had been the case while
Iraq was still under British control. He suggested that
we might: (a) check Ibn Saud when he appeared to be
presuming too far with regard to Koweit - a policy which
we were in fact now prepared to follow in regard to the
Saudi-Koweit blockade, and (b) enforce stricter regula
tions on the Sheikh in the matter of direct correspondence.
COLONEL FOWLS agreed. Such action would show both
the Sheikh and Ibn Saud that we considered the Sheikh to
Le under our direction. If we did not take some such
step as this f we might be in danger of finding ourselves
faced with the results of a kind of conspiracy between the
Sheikh and Ibn Saud, We ought, therefore, to write to
the ...
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This is a printed memorandum containing a record of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on 5 October 1933 to discuss relations between Great Britain and the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait], Aḥmad bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, particularly in regards to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Āl Sa‘ūd]. The following were present at the meeting: Mr George William Rendel (Chair), Eastern Department of the Foreign Office; Mr K R Johnston, Foreign Office; Sir Andrew Ryan, His Majesty's Minister at Jeddah; Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle, 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 The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and Mr John Gilbert Laithwaite, 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. .
The memorandum also includes two appendices: 'Appendix A. Note by Sir Andrew Ryan. Ibn Saud's attitude towards Kowait', dated 16 August 1933 (folios 14-17); and 'Appendix B. Provisional Note. Obligations of His Majesty's Government towards the Sheikh of Koweit', 11 October 1933, by Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite (folios 18-25), which includes sections entitled 'A. Nature of the undertakings given', 'B. Constitution of the undertakings given to the Sheikh', and 'Conclusion', with references to various correspondence in the right hand margin.
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- 1r:25v
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