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18119/33 [No. 58].
No. 242.
SIR SAMUEL WILSON (Colonial Office)
to
MR. A. C. HEARN (Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited).
[Answered by No. 244.]
(Personal and Confidential.)
Dear Mr. Hearn , Downing Street, S.W.I, 15th March, 1933.
As you are no doubt aware, I recently had some discussion and correspondence
with Cadman about the Kuwait Oil Concession.
In the course of the discussion Cadman referred to certain political difficulties
between the Shaikh and His Majesty's Government and inquired whether there was
any prospect of the early removal of these difficulties. Unfortunately there is no such
prospect, though we are of course concerned to dispose of them as rapidly as may be;
and since we are committed to a policy of not influencing the Shaikh, the question
is one essentially to be dealt with on a commercial basis. My object in writing to you
now is to say that so far as we can judge, the Shaikh is not likely to be much moved
by the difficulties in question if the Anglo-Persian Oil Company put up an offer
which, viewed commercially, is definitely very much better than that put up by the
Eastern and General Syndicate, and in these circumstances it seems to us to be for
the Company to consider what steps should be taken to counter the activities or offers
of their competitors in Kuwait.
Yours, &c.,
S. H. WILSON.
18119/33 [No. 631.
No. 243.
MR. A. C. C. PARKINSON (Colonial Office)
to
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL T. C. FOWLE ( 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. ).
(Confidential.)
My dear Fowle , Downing Street, 16th March, 1933.
In continuation of my Confidential letter of the 2nd March* about the Kuwait
Oil Concessions, I enclose a copy of a letter sent by Sir Samuel Wilson on the 15th
Marchf to Mr. Hearn of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
^ This is the letter referred to towards the end of paragraph 1 of the Secretary
of State's private and personal telegram sent to you on the 14th March4
Yours, &c.,
A. C, C. PARKINSON.
18119/33 [No. 72].
No. 244.
MR. A. C. HEARN (Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited,)
to
SIR SAMUEL WILSON (Colonial Office).
Britannic House, Finsbury Circus,
Dear Sib Samuel Wilson , London. E.G. 2, 17th March 1933
„ , 1 have to thank you for your letter of the 15th Mareht on the subject of the
Kuwait Oil Concession. I am writing to-day to Sir John Cadman on this and other
subjects and my letter should arrive at Abadan on the 23rd of this month which is
the probable date of his own arrival there from Bombay.
* No. 237. f No. 242.
t No. 241.