'File 22/23 II Kuwait Conference 1924' [‎75r] (149/544)

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very vaguest but some notion of their nature can be gleaned
from the paragraph 2 already cited above.
Again at the 6 th Conference Dr. Abdullah on page 1
of the minutes sets them forward more fully and it will be seen
that, on page 2 of those minutes, I summed up, the result of
the discussion in the following words " Then shall we call it
settled and agreed that an Arbitration Commitee decide claims
for the return of plunder and also fix the date from hhich sooh
auch claims may allowed ?**. *hin rera rk of mine was as e ted
i© by all present, then the minutes of the Cth Session were
read on Friday the 21st 'Hcembcr 1P23 at the 7tii feci ion of the
Conference { appendix 9 wo thia despatch} the ^ 4 .jd dalag lion
object d to the assent thus recorded an t althou h ,t is not
rtcurdad on the ? 3 ainutfcft of the proceedings, this denial of
theirs called forth the mot t itmphmxic protest from f&bih i 3 e ,
who said that it was iapoasiblits to trui l such persona who said
ont? atin f> , ont day and contradicted iv the next. Wit other
s'icBbers of the < onicrvnc , n^yaelf and iecretrry for instance,
felt considerable sympathy with the Iraq envoy's protest cut
I «fc*n ged gradually c pacify him and it was theft that the
sugg ttion was put forward by me that t)ir rercy ox’s tvirfence
should be allowed to s- ttl€ th^ faatt^r ol the date from sfaich
the account of th# plunder should be VUten. The ir» envoy
replied th i, although the ordert of the hritish Oovcrrasciit in
such a tier would undouc tedly be os eyed as f - I recollect his
saying « 4 i mey chcosc to dethrone ing sisal, no ont can
say UMptft ^ay’' positively declined willin 1 io suoecri e
vO the principle that a promise by :ir ^‘ercy ^ox could bind the
i ran Government of whioli h© was in no sense a meftber • I am
afraid that i allowed myself to animadvert ra h*r severely on
sudh un attitude by an Iraq official in regard to an eiainent
n^'liUaftM who had rendered such v&luabio eervices io th-iit
country and contrasted tik< attitude of th«? < cjd dcleg tei who
war*. r«rady to permit the ♦ vid nec oi Hr Percy Coa to sc tile tr e
qp.esii©a, wnife Iraq still bold out. the utmost tha- l could