‘1/1 Volume V Koweit Saudi Relations’ [177r] (362/648)
The record is made up of 1 volume (320 folios). It was created in 17 Apr 1936-20 Oct 1938. 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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Telegrem
From
To
Repeated
No,
Dated the
XX(S),(p re; Q Code).
His Majesty’s Secretary
of State for
Indi a,London,
Governiaent of India, Simla,
(?Bushire) , Kuwait, Jedda,
1758.
28th June 1937.
Please refer to Jeddah despa tch 77 dated April
25th 1937, and connected correspondence enclosed with
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.
weekly Air Mail letter No.24 of June 16th
1937, regarding the Saudi Kuwait Blockade.
The revised draft regulations proposed by Saudi
Arabia Government have been examined in collaboration
with Political, Kuwait. His Majesty’s Government’s
provisional view (?is that) Saudi Draft goes a long way
towards meeting Shaikh of Kuwait’s point of view and may
well prove acceptable to him particularly if presented in
form of suggested draft which forms an enclosure to
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.
letter F.0.No.P.2.3458/37, dated the 2nd
June 193 7.
It will be understood that no attempt ba s been
made to make Regulations word perfect. Subject therefore
to any observations which you and
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.
may have to offer we
should now take action on the following* lines. The
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.
, Kuwait diould be instructed to take an
early opportunity of the revised version to ohaikh
explaining that though it differ slightly of form, but
not in substance from version put forward by the oaudi
Arabia Governnent. “is Majesty’s Government see no reason
to anticipate that will raise any objectio to its ?
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- Content
Correspondence and papers concerning negotiations over the drafting of trade, Bon Voisinage An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders. and extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in an effort to lift the trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the 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 IV Koweit Saudi Relations’ (IOR/R/15/5/112), and includes:
- Multiple drafts in both Arabic and English of a ‘Regulation for the Control of Caravans and Traders between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia’.
- A copy of Al-Waqayah [Iraq Government Gazette] dated 1936 (ff 191-200), and a printed copy of the extradition agreement between Saudi Arabia and the Government of Iraq (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), dated 1931 (ff 201-207).
- Multiple drafts in both Arabic and English of Bon Voisinage An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders. and extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
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. (Captain Gerald Simpson DeGaury); 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; Reader William Bullard); the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ); Foreign and 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. representatives in London.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (320 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 foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 318; 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 first and last leading and ending flyleaves.
Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 4-315, and ff 28-315; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- ‘1/1 Volume V Koweit Saudi Relations’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:7v, 13r:16v, 23r:23v, 29r:69v, 73r:83v, 89r:114v, 116r:116v, 118r:157v, 164r:165v, 169r:185v, 190r:190v, 208r:212v, 226r:246v, 248r:254v, 256r:274v, 284r:285v, 290r:291v, 297r:314v, 316r:318v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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