'File 5/1 IX Kuwait Oil Company' [‎63r] (130/406)

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Bm&i Arabia.
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iaportant enough to jnatliy m& telegram l# # gE$ of the loth
Be©emb#r# am there in no ^uiok opportunity for a gmTlu^raa*
I tort no reason to suppose that ho me isinltading iso &&&
tttnah little importauoe to the disortpaiioy between what he
about the Kuwait neutral gene and |*hllb$r*® wraion t as
reported in 0alT®rt , a letter to you of Dee ember li# Philby
wms admittedly »peakia|r from ornery* %* have had no good
opportunity of ejctraotiag imything further from him but will
soon peealble whether he o#in pro&uoe anything more*
to avoid any outward airpearanee of aheeking
^4*8 info mat iem by ref err to fhllby or vioe»»vere#*
,^ad nentiened in oomm mion with oil gem rally two
further fmlm of a lees urgent nature followsj-
f&) Be aali that he had seen hongrigg* the 'Iraq
role urn doerpany 1 ® isan* twi oe at Haifa, cmee before and
OBee after the treaty negetlatleae in derua&Xe* in July*
but it had later been decided to
postpone
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foreign Of floe.
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