'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' [‎11r] (21/50)

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the Sheikh in the seriise that we noted that his private
correspondsnc© viith llr<7i Baud had ass*jjT*cd an increasing
importance and toil h'hw iha'c that correspondence rMBt now
cease.
MRo RENDSL concurred, A straightforward control
of this nature would "be easier to maintain and wouid
prevent a repetition of such incidents as the letter in
which Ihn Saud had recently tried to detach the Sneikh of
Koweit from his connexion with Hie Majesty's Government,
SIR A. RYAN also concurred, and drew attention to
the success with which Ito Saud was spreading the idea
that he might naturally ahsoro Koweit and was hound to do
so sooner or laterHe pointed out that such an n.dea
could never have prevailed to the extent to v/hich it had.,
if His Majesty's Government had equally definitely made
known their own special position with regard to Koweitc
The meeting then discussed what point in the corres
pondence between the Sheikh and Ton Saud could most suit
ably he taken up in connexion with the reprimand which it
was proposed to address to hoth parties.
MB. LAITHWAITS suggested that if it were discovered
that the Sheikh had committed himself to Ihn Saud in
regard to the grant of an oil concession in the Koweit
Neutral Zone, this might he an excellent opportunity for
checking him. The question then arose what action could
he taken if tho United States Government, ■in dealing with
whom His Maj isty's Government had consistently emphasised
the Sheikh's independence, were to produce communications
from him regarding the grant of a concession in the Neutral
Zone, It was, however, agreed that His Majesty's Govern
ment could demonstrate from the Sheikh's treaty engagements
that he had not heen entitled to make any such grant with
out „,.