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'File 53/54 II (D 91) Kuwait Blockade' [43r] (92/480)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 5 Mar 1932-30 Jun 1933. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Telegram
JTrom Political H6sic*.eTit'j Buslriii g»
To Secretary of State for the Colonies, London,
Ko. 2.
Datefi 22nd April 1S32
Your telegram No 2 of 14tlx A,pril«
Kuwait Blockade*
Your presumption is not correct. StLeiku
does wish to exclude discussion of those alternatives hy
commissioners v;hen appointed. 1 have now received his
formal letter of agreement to appoint ccmmissi oners and
am sending it to you "by next air mail. In it he states
he will never agree to three alternatives.
3. Personally I do not think difficulty ought
to arise ahout thiSj if matter explained uo r-ecljazi o-ov-
-ernment. Yusaf Yasin informed me that King realised ,
that alternatives (I) and (13) were impracticable and I
informed him that Sheikh v»culd not agree to (111^ •
4^ i would emphasise that Sheikh's objection
is to fixed annual payments. This would not rule out
. _ . . .
possibility of some^ arrangements on lines outlined m
^ara 11 of lay despatcti Ho 3 of 5tb. February under which,
payment hy Kuwait to Mejd v» ould vary in c.oooi'danoe with
customs receipts. Whether such arrangement would he
feasible I can not say, hut it would prohahly he less
unpalatable to Sheikh.
Copy by air mail to government of India and
.-w . *
J edda.
- KBSIiJfciHT -
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This file contains correspondence related to a trading blockade imposed on Kuwait by Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)], the King of Hejaz and Nejd (King of Saudi Arabia after September 1932).
The correspondence is primarily between British officials attempting to mediate between the two parties but the file also contains several copies of correspondence directly between Ibn Saud and Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait. The majority of the correspondence between the two rulers in the file is translated into English and does not include the original Arabic.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (238 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: Formerly a bound correspondence volume, the file's pages have now been unbound and are now loose.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Circled index numbers in red crayon can also be found throughout the folio.
The file contains the following foliation errors: 9 and 9A; 64 and 64A; 83 and 83A; 111, 111A, 111B, 111C, 111D, 111E, 111F, 111G and 111H; 121 and 121A.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/1/515
- Title
- 'File 53/54 II (D 91) Kuwait Blockade'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:9v, 9ar:9av, 10r:28v, 29v:64v, 64ar:64av, 65r:83v, 83ar:83av, 84r:110v, 111v, 111ar:111hv, 112r:121v, 121ar:121av, 122r:130v, 133v:225v, back-i
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