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former Palestinian Police Forces, that he would welcome any
advice or information against suspedted Communists, and that he
would act on it to the extent of expelling any one that His
Majesty’s Political authorities might consider undesirable.
Mr. Burrows thanked His Highness for this and continued that,
efficacious as action on these lines was, it was not in itself
enough. Mr. Burrows then reverted to the subject of improve
ments in the Administration designed to to raise the standards
of living of the workers and suggested to His Highness that,
while it was clear that large sums of money were being expended,
it was not certain that His highness was getting results commen
surate with the expenditure involved. He continued that it was
the feeling in the Foreign Office that expenditure of capital
and income should be planned over a number of years and reserves
accumulated in such a way that, if the price of oil were to fall
or any other circumstance arise to limit His Highness’ income,
the standards of administration at that time attained could be
maintained out of income from reserve funds.
At this sta e His ^ighness intervened to ask
whether we were discussing Communism or money. Mr. Burrows
indicated that Communism and improvements in standards of admin
istration were, in H.M.G’s experience, parts of the same problem.
His Highness replied that all his life he had de
voted his energies to improving the lot of his people, and, when
one considered how small Kuwait was, how it lacked many material
resources, and yet how prosperous it was, he thought that we
should