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'File 53/54 II (D 91) Kuwait Blockade' [52r] (110/480)
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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A curious thing also haopened Immediately after the
Sheikhs return on 3rd April. A1 Naflsi called on me on
the 5th,(he is Bin Sauds agent as you know) He urged me
solemnly and with obvious sincerity and anxiety in his
voice, to use all my endeavours with H. 1A.G-., to end the
Blockade quickly, for Kuwait was in a very bad way indeed
just, now. He instanced the fact that the Sheikh had since
hia return called on the merchants for a 1^10000/- subscript
ion to feed the poor, and that the amount collected had
reached feSOOO/- in two days: Nafisi ended his talk by
saying that he had received a personal letter from Bin
Saud by the hand of his son who had accompanied the Sheikhs
party, to the effect that he Bin Saud sent his special
"salaams" to me, and was much pleased with all my efforts
to bring about a better understanding between Kuwait and
Nejd.
I have a sort of feeling that the Sheikhs curious desire
to keep in with Bin Saud these days is possibly due to
the Anti British propaganda which has for sometime past
been going on^in Kuwait: I have nentioned the matter to
vou before. It takes the form that ^-reat Britain is
* y* N .-v. <V^ , • ^ ... . .
loosing her grip of things in the Near East and East general
-ly, as instance the condition of Indi ., her relaxing
her hold in Iraq, and ;:er policy in P-^sia etc, etc.
Great Britii^ is pictured bela 0 all too read^ nowadays
to -doot the line of least resistance, abandon her rights,
desert her friends, and generally rely on the League of
Nations (a broken reed) to ajust her affairs for her.
Nearer home, the Sheikh has seen unaccountable delaysjas
he thinks, in the matter of his Date G-ardens, the settle
ment of the Blockade, and the Post and Telegraph question.
All this in a way conf irtis ^ he thinks^ what propagandists
are ever preaching. He of course fears Nejd and Iraq, the
latter much more than the former, ". T hat better course, he
thinks t than to be in the fashion and arrange a rapprochment
with one of his strong neighbours Bin Saud, a big personage
crrtalnly^ nd to whom he after IT i? relateti by tribal ties ,
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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.
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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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- 'File 53/54 II (D 91) Kuwait Blockade'
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- 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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