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'File 2/1 II IRAQ PROPAGANDA. (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq). Relations etc.' [40r] (79/312)
The record is made up of 1 volume (154 folios). It was created in 20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948. It was written in English, Arabic and French. 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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country and to convince Hie Highness that tho King of
Iraq*s sole idea was to render assistance in bringing
that backward territory up to date. The &ing then
alleged that the Shaikh employed Persians as police and
im
encouraged Persian/migration in order to enable him to con4
trol his own people. I denied this and, when the Prime
Minister went on to say how pleased His Majesty would be
to send Iraqi police at any time to help the Shaikh to
keep order, I observed that I should have thought Koweit’s
recent experience of Iraqi police would have been enough.
3. Nothing I could say would shake the King and the
Prime Minister from their idea of sending an envoy and
later of inviting the Shaikh to Bagdad to be flattered
and decorated. They again begged me to seek your approval
for the project. But I hope that the Shaikh will be
discouraged from responding, at any rate, until he has
received an apology for these three latest violations of
his territory. If and when an apology has been received
and the Iraqi Sovemment have given proof of good faith
by genuine cessation of propaganda, it will be for consider
ation whether it might not be impolitic to continue to
discourage the despatch of King (xhazi’s messenger of
friendship. Possibly if as one hopes his relations with
Ifen Saud are shortly to be put on a more regular footing,
the Shaikh would be in a stronger position than he would
seem to be today to resist Iraqi blandishments.
4. The impression left on me by the proceedings at the
Palace was that the Iraqis are aiming effectively to take
over the protection of Koweit while nominally leaving the
Shaikh and His Majesty’s Government in their present
position.
5. Protests from this Embassy regarding propaganda hav«
hitherto had little effect. I spoke to the Prime Ministej
on March 22nd about the broadcast referred to in your tele
gram
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The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, and confidential papers sent between British officials in the Gulf regarding Iraqi propaganda against Kuwait. Communications were made with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. al-Said and the Ruler of Kuwait, in this regard. The correspondence also contains reports about members of Al-Naqib family from Basra who were appointed as envoys from Baghdad with instructions to offer official advice to the Ruler of Kuwait. A particular name that appears in the volume is Sayid Hamid Bey Al-Naqib, Basra Deputy to the Ruler of Kuwait.
The correspondence also discusses the following: the refusal by Ibn Saud of any form of unity between Iraq and Kuwait, the issue of encouraging Persian immigration to Kuwait, and the petitions raised by members of the Legislative Council in Kuwait, to 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, to assist in releasing political prisoners in Kuwait.
The correspondence also contains letters and newspaper extracts regarding Khalid Sulaiman al-‘Adsani, Secretary of the dissolved Legislative Council in Kuwait, and about the Arab Youth movement called al-Ansar, which calls for Arab unity. Most of the correspondence in the volume (ff 2-136) is dated 1939.
The main correspondence is between the British Embassy, Baghdad, the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Kuwait, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Bushire, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London, and the British Embassy, Jeddah.
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- 1 volume (154 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 156; 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.
An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-154; these numbers are also written in pencil, but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- IOR/R/15/5/127
- Title
- 'File 2/1 II IRAQ PROPAGANDA. (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq). Relations etc.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:49v, 51r:52v, 54r:54v, 56r:67v, 69r:119v, 121r:130v, 134r:136v, 139r:139v, 141r:141v, 143r:146v, 149r:149v, 151r:155v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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