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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' [14r] (27/50)
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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14.
Note b y S ir .uidrew Ryan *
Ibn Saud's attitude tov/ards Kowait o
I have been turning over in my mind for some time the
possibility that it may be a definite object of Ibn Saud's
policy to reduce Kowait to a position of dependence on him
somewhat similar to that of Asir from 1926 to 1930. This is in
the nature of a pure speculation but it is a speculation so
interesting that I think it worth while to collect the
principal data bearing on it. It must be admitted at the
outset that, if Ibn Saud had such an idea in his head, he
would realise the need for great caution lest he should indispose
His Majesty's Government. His only formal obligation towards
the latter is that contained in j-irticlo 6 of the Treaty of Jedda
but he understands very well the implications of the words
therein "who are in special treaty relations with His Britannic
Majesty's Government", On the other hand he has seen His
Majesty's Government tolerate direct correspondence on business
subjects between him and the Sheikh of Koweit. He might think
that they would not react over strongly if he and the Sheikh
confronted them with the fait accompli of a political deal.
2 0 Apart from the correspondence, of which we have knowledge,
there has been other intercourse between the rulers, notably the
Sheikh's visit to Pdadh in 1932, the secret messages brought by
Ibn Saud's comidential messenger to the Sheikh early this year
and the Sheikh's mysterious dashes into Nejd last February,
when Colonel Dickson surmised that he had gone to meet some high
Saudi personage, possibly Ibn Saud himself.
3. I may interpolate, as a minor indication of Ibn Saud's
attitude, a reference to two occasions on which it has been
suggested or hinted by his Ministry of Foreign Affairs that His
Majesty's
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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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