'File 53/89 I (D 154) Kuwait Education' [‎167r] (354/470)

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Translation of a leading article published in
the vernacular paper "INHAS" No»913 dated August 15th, 1940,
Basrah, under the heading:
THE PRINCIPALITIES OF THE ARABIM GULF AND ARE TEST
INDEPfflBSNT OR COLONIZED?
Arab problems have become complicated inspite of the
awakening of the nation^
No sooner has one Arab problem been solved in Syria
or Palestine than another requiring treatment arises and it is
not pleasant to see such a state of affairs which disappoints
every Arab and Moslem# We say this in order to draw our reader^
attention to the abbreviated news which we published in the
local news column regarding a problem which concerned the
sending of Kuwaiti students to Iraq. We and every Arab residing
in the Gulf, or in any other country know that the Arab Princi
palities in the Gulf have internal independence and that the
treaties which were made between the English and the Chiefs of
the Gulf Principalities do not refer to any interference in
internal administration by the former<, What the treaties do
clearly express does not go beyond the enjoyment of some
substantial and military benefits, and some other affairs
relating to foreign policy. But with regard to the internal
administration it has been left to the sons of the countries
concerned particularly in the treaty between the British and
Kuwaiti If this is a fact, then how did the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. ,
Kuwait, interfere in a matter which does not concern him, but
which concerns the local people themselves? The Kuwait Govern
ment had decided to send some students to Iraq to be educated
at the expense of the Iraq Government. Iraq had welcomed them
in the same way as it did all the others, having done this
through the impulse of its national duty but the Political
Agent/