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'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous' [133r] (285/474)
The record is made up of 1 volume (235 folios). It was created in 29 May 1934-5 May 1937. 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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Confidential•
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The
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
,
D .0. K o «38- S of 19S6. Bunhire, 10th Januery, 1936.
t l c
,z: . d
Many thenks for your deepatchea of 19th and 30tn
December 1935 on the subject of attacks on Kuvvait by the
'Iraqi Presa. I propose informing the Shaikh (of Kuwait)
of the result of your interriew with Kuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
(giTen in
the latter of the t vo despatches quoted above), and I have
no doubt thit this will have the effect of easing his mind
With regard to annexation, .
y*
2. TTnfortunately . have just ^tceived a further * Iraqi
Press attack on Kuwait which ^ enclose ( jickson* a iilxpress
Letter of 2nd January 1936, Fo.C-l, with a translation of
the frticle in question). The "An Kafj" article seems to be
a particularly pernicious production. Briefly it states
that when the Treaty of *Oqair whs made Bin Saud's concurr
ence was only temporary, that he merely pretended to concur
to please an old friend - Sir Percy Cox, that he declared
openly that he would not be bound by its terms, and that
Cox knew this perfectly well. The article then goes on
to mention the detaching" of the Neutral Zone by the Saudi
Government from ICuwait by which the latter would lose
possible valuable oilfields.
5. N &turally we know thut this article is a farrago of
nonsense, but this is by no means the opinion that will be
taken by the average 'Iraqi, JKejdi, or Kumiti, who may read
the /
Archiba ld Clark Kerr ,K.C.M.O.,
His r -ajesty's Ambassador,
Bagdad•
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- Content
This file contains correspondence related to a number of different topics (all of which concern Kuwait).
The majority of the correspondence in the file discusses anti-Kuwaiti newspaper articles printed in the Iraqi press. A number of examples of these articles are contained in the file including some original cuttings (ff. 112a-112d).
The following topics of particular interest are also discussed in the file:
- The possibility of the Ottoman Bank or the Imperial Bank of Persia establishing a branch in Kuwait (f. 22, 26, 55, 60, 61, 97-99).
- The right of British subjects to trade in Kuwait (ff. 156-159, f. 164, f.168, f.171, f.181, f.187).
- A complaint made by the Government of Iraq concerning an incursion into Iraqi territory by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ and an armed escort (ff. 201-206).
- The education of Kuwaiti students in Iraq (ff. 122-23, f. 127).
- A proposed hunting trip by Shaikh Aḥmad to Amara in Iraq (ff. 188-189, ff. 192-193, ff. 197-200).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (235 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of the topics discussed in the file is included on folio 1B.
Serial numbers refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file: red for incoming, blue for outgoing correspondence.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound correspondence volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the first folio 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.
The file contains the following foliation errors: 1, 1A, 1B and 1C; 112, 112A, 112B, 112C and 112D; 121 and 121A and the following omissions: 65; 179-181
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- IOR/R/15/1/506
- Title
- 'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1cv, 2r:3v, 4v:44v, 45v, 48v:57v, 58v:64v, 66r:70v, 72v, 73v, 76v:81v, 85v, 89v:93v, 96v:104v, 105v, 108v, 111v:115v, 117v:119v, 122r:124v, 126v:131v, 132v:137v, 138v:147v, 151v:155v, 157v:158r, 158r:159r, 159r:160v, 163v:178v, 182r:194v, 195v:215r, 215r:228v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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