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‘1/1 Volume IV Koweit Saudi Relations’ [‎174r] (356/510)

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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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Kuwait could not do without smuggling. I demurred to this on
the ground that the main advantage which such a place derived
from being an entrepot was that its merchants handled trade. I
denied that smuggling was essential to the prosperity of Kuwait
as he had'suggested, though I admitted that the temptation
to indulge in it was great in cases such as the present when
there was so enormous a disparity between the Kuwaiti and Saudi
customs duties. (I had already tried to draw him on the
question whether the Saudi Government intended to reduce their
duties - see paragraph 12 of the Foreign Office despatch
already quoted - buthe professed complete ignorance on this
subject).
4. Fuad Bey, who was not I think very conversant with what had
passed during his absence from this country, tried to make out
that the "guarantee* demanded by the Saudi delegates at Kuwait
was not in fact a guarantee that not a single case of smuggling
should take place. I demolished this suggestion, whereupon
Fuad Bey, making no attempt to defend the guarantee, which had
been asked for, suggested that other guarantees would be i
necessary. He outlined a system of passports or identity
certificates for persons carrying goods. I said that something
might be done on those lines but I rejected a proposal of Fuad
Bey*s that I should forthwith draft a note embodying not only
the two formulae in the Kuwaiti delegates* letter of June 17th
but a system of further precautions against smuggling. I
pointed out that I could not draft anything except i n consulta
tion with the authorities concerned and that, if the Saudi
Government wished for further guarantees, it was for them to
say what they wanted. Replying to a complaint of his that the
Kuwaiti delegates had made no counter-proposals regarding
guarantees, I said that they had had no opportunity of doing so.

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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).

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1 volume (247 folios)
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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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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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