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Coll 30/21(2) 'Persian Gulf: Koweit - Blockade by Ibn Saud' [‎151r] (312/1010)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (501 folios). It was created in 14 May 1935-27 Sep 1937. It was written in English. 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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Minute Paper,
P.Z.4191/36
Department
Please see the Secretary of State*s telegram at
P.Z.2576/36. We have now received a copy of the draft
regulations which have been drawn up by the Sheikh of Koweit
in conjunction with Captain de Gaury (see P.Z.3968/36).
They have received the general approval of Colonel Powle
and they seem to cover as far as possible the points raised
by Fuad in his discussions with Sir Andrew Byan (see Jedda
despatch No. 352).
These regulations, if eventually accepted by the
! Saudi Government, will presumably have to be embodied into
some kind of formal agreement. The form that this agreement
should take will require consideration. Probably an
exchange of notes between the Saudi Government and His
Majesty*s Government will be the most suitable instrument
on the analogy of the Bahrein Transit Dues Agreement,
| although our control over the external relations of Koweit
is not exactly on a par with our control over Bahrein.
We shall have to thrash this matter out with the Foreign
Office, who, I gather from informal discussion, are
reluctant to take a definite line until Mr. Rendel returns
from Montreux in about ten days* time. I do not think
it is necessary to have reached a decision on this question
before communicating the Sheikh*s draft regulations to the
Saudi Government. We might therefore suggest to the
Foreign Office that Mr. Calvert, who is at present in charge
at Jedda, should be instructed to hand a copy of the
regulations to the Saudi Government and ask for their
I observations.
2956 6000 7/34

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This volume contains correspondence related to a trade blockade that was imposed on Kuwait by the Ruler of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and more generally concerning relations between Britain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The correspondence in the volume consists of internal correspondence between British officials (including at the Foreign Office, 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. , the British Legation in Jeddah and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait) as well as correspondence between British officials and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah and officials from the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The file also contains English language translations of letters that were passed between the Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian delegations at negotiations mediated by Britain in June 1935.

In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following:

The volume includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (501 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 497; 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 leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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