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‘1/1 Volume IV Koweit Saudi Relations’ [27r] (62/510)
The record is made up of 1 volume (247 folios). It was created in 29 May 1935-21 Apr 1936. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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for them to have access to them whenever they wished to go
t’nere to pay Zakat. These efforts were made by the
messengers themselves by way of personal information and not
otherwise» and, had there been any intention to exercise jj
the influence of the Saudi Arab Government, they (heduin)
would have been asked to pay hakat while they were in their
(tribal) territory, and not by ©ending only four persons to
them. The British Government will therefore gather from
this, that the incident was described in a form other than
its true one, and that the treatment extended to the said
messengers had nothing of the usual courtesy between the
two countries and the two ruling families. Moreover this i®
not the first time that haste ha® occurred in the iransmissioz
of new© from Kuwait inaccurately, and if the British
Government refer to (the incidents of) Ha^ab, 1346
(December 19119) they will find that the Government of Kuwait
once pretended that a party of al Awazim had become their
subjects. The British Government then wrote a note to our
Government through the Consul at Jedda to the effect that
the Aw&aim had become subjects of the Amir of Kuwait, but
after we informed them of the true facts, they investigated
the same, and found, that there was no proof to show that
the above mentioned (Awasim) had adopted the Kuwait
nationality, and that this was obviously confirmed in the
note of the Assistant
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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
at Kuwait to K.«. the King dated 2nd hha’aban 1346
(2nd January 1930), and it then appeared that the wasira
entered Kuwait merely to rob a number of sheep there. B.M*
the King was therefore compelled to punish them, and to
recover the sheep which they had stolen, and to return them
to the Sheykh of Kuwait.
Prom this and previous instances the British Government
/will
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Correspondence and papers concerning relations between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and British officials’ efforts to negotiate the lifting of a trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the of King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). The volume is a direct chronological continuation of ‘1/1 Volume III Koweit Saudi Relations’ (IOR/R/15/5/111), and includes:
- Further diplomatic exchanges amongst British, Saudi and Kuwaiti officials, relating to the incursion into Kuwaiti territory by an armed Saudi party in May 1935.
- Saudi assertions that smuggling from Kuwait into Saudi Arabia has increased in the wake of the Kuwait-Saudi conference held in July 1935.
- The death of the Amir of Hasa [al-Aḥsā’] Abdulla al Jiluwi [‘Abdullāh bin Jilūwī Āl Sa‘ūd] in October 1935;
- Discussions regarding a proposal, put forward by Ibn Saud, for the recognition of Arafa [’arafa] law between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
- In early 1936, Saudi Government proposals for a lifting of the blockade, and reports of the Ruler of Kuwait’s agreement in principle to the proposals.
The volume’s principal correspondents are: 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson); 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle); the British Government’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Andrew Ryan); the British Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); representatives of the Government of Saudi Arabia (Fuad Bey Hamza, Yusuf Yasin, Feysal [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]); the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (247 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 249; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 4-246; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/5/112
- Title
- ‘1/1 Volume IV Koweit Saudi Relations’
- Pages
- 13r:16v, 26r:29v
- Author
- Āl Sa‘ūd, Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz (xx Al Sa'ud, Faisal bin Abdulaziz)
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