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Coll 30/21(2) 'Persian Gulf: Koweit - Blockade by Ibn Saud' [‎354r] (718/1010)

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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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( 3 ) S audi Blockade of Kowei t._
THE SHEIKH said that in IS29 he had received a
letter from H.M.G. concerning his trade with Eejd,
promising that if His Excellency would prevent help being
given to Faisal al Duwish, H.M.G. would endeavour to
reach a solution of his trade difficulties with King Abdul
Aziz. His Excellency had carried out his part and had
even fought with Al Duwish’s people, but H.M.G. , for their
part, had as yet failed to make any progress towards a
solution of the blockade. A Saudi deputation of 83
persons hah recently visited Koweit, but His Excellency
thought that no good had come of the conference which had
taken place.
MR.LAITHWAJTE said that for some time H.M.G. had
been trying hard to reach a solution of the Dlocxade
question with King Abdul Aziz, and that, as the Sheikn
would remember the proposal for a conference re 0 axd-..*. 0 i ,
which had now materialised, had originated with the late
Sir Hugh Eiscoe. He reminded the Sheikh that matters
had been held up for more than a year owing to a
misunderstanding about certain correspondence between
His Excellency and the King of Saudi Arabia. after
briefly recalling the proceedings at the recent Conference
at Koweit, he said that H.M.G. regarded it as satisfactory
that the Saudi delegation had gone so far as agreeing
even on the principle of a system of manifests and
Customs posts. H.M.G. entirely agreed that Hie Saadi
demand for a guarantee as a condition of agreement on this
basis, that not a single Koweit smuggler would cross the
frontier was quite unreasonable. The India Oflice and
Foreign/

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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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Coll 30/21(2) 'Persian Gulf: Koweit - Blockade by Ibn Saud' [‎354r] (718/1010), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3733, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100044851363.0x000077> [accessed 24 April 2024]

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