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'File 61/14 XIV (D 61) Relations between Najd and Iraq' [11r] (28/550)
The record is made up of 1 volume (271 folios). It was created in 19 Nov 1929-31 Dec 1929. 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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prevail it is not an easy thing to harmonize acts with
the time and that the first opportunity is usually the
one availed of for defeating the eneiay. ^e therefor#
propose the enforoement of the following:-
a. W® propose that the Government of Kuwait should
order their subjects to gather all in one certain place
and to station some forces in front of them to protect
them - all in a place away from places where it is feared
they will "be the fieli. of aotion y and then the Kuwait
Government snould inform us of this place then trits
Government should also station real forces ( and we do
not "believe that aeroplanes alone will suffice) to "be
about Kuwait and its limits to prevent any forces of the
rebels from talcing refuge within its "boundaries should
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they want to do so # and there ie/be with these two forces
officials on behalf of the British Government; and/it
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should "be possible for this force to expel^with all means
it can, to the most distant point even to within the
limits of Ne jd f in oriLer to ensure their non-entry into
the(Kuwait) boundaries; and should it so happen that
anyone of them whether an importantyor of little value /
fly from any road into the Kuwait or Iraq, territories,
should be arrested and handed over to us« In this case
there will remain no cause for our forces to enter
Kuwait borders.
b. If these are not all possible to be carried out^
we propose that Kuwait subjects should be ordered to
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remain in one certain guarteiy^known to us / and then we
should be left alone to deal with the rebelsato purste
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them/anywhere and we undertake in this case to protect
the other subjects of the neighbouring countries and
to prevent any encroachments upon them and we also
undertake that none of our soldiers should remain in
the neighbouring lands after the first hour in which
the pursuit of culprits is completed. In this way^
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The volume contains letters, memoranda, and reports concerning relations between Najd, Iraq, and Kuwait. The majority of the correspondence is between Hugh Briscoe, 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. at Bushire, Harold Dickson, 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. at Kuwait, Ibn Sa'ud, Sheikh Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah of Kuwait, Francis Humphrys, High Commissioner at Baghdad, Robert Brooke-Popham, Air Officer Commanding in Iraq, Abdul Qadir Rashid, Secretary to the Council of Ministers in Iraq, Sidney Webb, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Jeddah.
The volume covers a period after the defeat of the Ikhwan rebels by Ibn Sa‘ud and their attempts to find safety and regroup in Kuwait and Iraq. Within this broad context several subjects are contained by the documents:
- rebels, both Awazim and Ajman, seeking refuge in Kuwait and Ibn Sa‘ud's response to that;
- a short conference held in Basra attended by the 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. , the Kuwait 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. , the and the Air Officer Commanding;
- Wahhabi propaganda in Kuwait;
- Ibn Sa‘ud's complaints about King Faisal of Iraq's alleged intriguing with the Ikhwanrebels;
- reconnaissance missions in the Kuwait desert and along the frontier zone;
- the possible necessity of an airbase in Kuwait;
- the visit of rebel leader Naif al-Hathlain [al-Hithlain] to Kuwait;
- intelligence of tribal movements and whereabouts in general.
Documents of note within the volume are the following:
- Dickson's report (folios 49-55) on a reconnaissance trip between the Shaqq Depression and al-Batin, with information on wells;
- Biscoe's report (folios 120-29) on the Basra conference;
- Dickson's report (folios 165-71) on the 'Shaikh of Kuwait's point of view vis-à-vis H. M. King Bin Saud, and his fears of a coming attack on his territories by the latter.'
At the back of the volume (folios 263-265) are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (271 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. There is an alphabetical subject index to the contents, at the front of the volume (folios 3, 4). The index entries include the folio numbers of relevant documents, to help identify and locate them within the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the sequence runs from front to back, excluding covers. Numbering is written in pencil, circled, and found in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. Two Arabic letters (folios 191A-191B and 192A-192B) are folded and enclosed in envelopes which are addressed in Arabic. The back of each envelope has been attached by adhesive to a separate blank page (folios 191 and 192). There is a second, inconsistent sequence. It is written in pencil but not circled.
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- 'File 61/14 XIV (D 61) Relations between Najd and Iraq'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:4v, 5v:8r, 10r:160r, 165r:267v, back-i
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