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C. 98026/32 [No. 164],
No. 191.
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. to COLONIAL OFFICE.
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. , Whitehall,
Sir, London, S .W.I, 14th December, 1932.
In reply to your letter of the 10th December,* I am directed by the Secretary
of State for India to say that he concurs in the draft telegrams proposed to be sent to
the Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. on the subject of the applications of the Anglo-Persian
Oil Company and the Eastern and General Syndicate for an oil concession in Kuwait.
2. Copies of this letter are being sent to the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry,
Foreign Office, and Petroleum Department.
I am, &c.,
J. C. WALTON.
C. 98026/32 [No. 165],
No 192.
AIR MINISTRY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Sir, Air Ministry, London, W .C .2, 14th December, 1932.
I am commanded by the Air Council to refer to Colonial Office letter of 10th
December,! transmitting drafts of two telegrams which it is proposed to address to the
Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. on the subject of applications for an oil concession in
Kuwait, and in reply to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, that in so far as they are aware, the only correspondence in the possession
of the Resident, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , likely to explain the views of the Service Departments
on the strategic issues involved is Admiralty letter dated 18th November, 19324 In
order, therefore, to conform with the terms of conclusion 2 (h) of the Middle East (O)
21st meeting held on 2nd December, the Council consider that some reference should
be made in the personaLtelegram to Lieutenant-Colonel Fowle to indicate that the Air
Ministrv hold views similar to those expressed in paragraphs 2 and 3 of the above-
quoted Admiralty letter.
Subject to an amendment on the foregoing lines to the personal telegram to
Lieutenant-Colonel Fowle, the Council have no further comments to raise on either of
the two draft telegrams.
Copies of this letter have been sent to the Foreign Office, 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. , Admiralty,
War Office, Treasury and Petroleum Department.
I am, &c.,
C. L l. BULLOCK.
C. 98026/32 [No. 166].
No. 193.
MR. J. G. LAITHWAITE ( 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. )
to
MR. J. E. W. FLOOD (Colonial Office).
My dear Flood, 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. , Whitehall, S.W.I, 15th December, 1932.
I write with reference to our telephone conversation this morning to say that
copies of the War Office letter of 13th December § about the oil concession will go to
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. by this week's air mail, and should reach him (even assuming
that we get off the official and personal telegrams to him by the beginning of next
week) well before arrangements can be made for Dickson to come from Kuwait to
Bushire to look at the correspondence generally. In these circumstances perhaps the
private telegram 1 could stand in its present form? The views of the Army Council
* No. 184.
f No. 185.
X No. 180.
§ No. 188.