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‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’ [147r] (304/608)
The record is made up of 1 volume (294 folios). It was created in 2 Mar 1929-9 Jul 1933. 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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doubt whatever that the latter's contention is correct,
and that both parties intended the agreement to cover
only the minor claims indicated in Colonel Dic&son's
letter of the 7th April 1932. The fchaiJch would never
have accepted Hi® Majesty's proposal if it had been
otherwise. Moreover, as Colonel hicicson points out in
paragraph 4 of his letter Mo. 163, dated 9th September
1932^copy forwarded to you under my printed letter Mo*
42 (Ho. 659-S to the Government of India and Jedda),
dated 13th September 1952), Ion baud could not have known
of the Shaikh's Akhwan claims in January last when he
made his proposal. In paragraph 3 of the same letter
Colonel Dickson produces some further arguments based
on the Arabic phraseology used: for instance the expres
sion "between our subjects and your subjects", no mention
being made as to the claims as between the two Government a.
This latter argument is slightly weakened by the fact that in
the above statement (forwarded to you under Sir Hugh
Bisece's despatch Ho. 11, dated X3iM May 1931 (copy to
the Government of India and Jedda under printed letter Ho.
267H3), Claim 1(a) consists almost entirely of losses by
Kuwait subjects in camels, sheep, etc. nevertheless,
taking all the circumstances into account, I am sure that
any court, having regard particularly to the intentions of
the parties concerned at the time of the claims, would
give an award in favour of the uhaikh.
6. Unfortunately we are not dealing with an
individual subject to a court of law, but with an independent
sovereign. The^faet that at the time of the agreement Ibn
Baud's intentions were the same as the bhaikh's will not
presumably prevent the former from continuing to use his
present interpretation, which has sufficient plausibility
for his purpose, as a trump card of considerable value.
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Papers concerning relations between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), and a trading blockade imposed on Kuwait by the King of Hejaz and Nejd (from September 1932, the King of the Arab Sa’udite Kingdom [Saudi Arabia]) ‘Abdul ‘Aziz bin ‘Abdur Rahman al-Faisal [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)].
The volume includes:
- Correspondence exchanged between British officials in London ( 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. , Foreign Office), 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. at Kuwait (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson) and 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 Hugh Vincent Biscoe; Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle).
- Correspondence exchanged between 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. at Kuwait and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ].
- Copies of correspondence (translated into English) exchanged between the Ruler of Kuwait and the King of Hejaz and Nejd.
- Copies of food prices lists, issued by the Arabia Saoudiyah [Saudi Arabia] Government, and published in the Um-Alkura [ Umm-al-Qura ] newspaper in May 1933 (ff 280-283).
Some of the volume’s correspondence is in Arabic, accompanied by English translations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (294 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 main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 294; 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 six leading and ending flyleaves.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 3-294; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/5/109
- Title
- ‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:9v, 11r:21v, 24r:24v, 27r:40v, 42r:43v, 52r:59v, 65r:86v, 88r:88v, 99r:157v, 161r:166v, 172r:175v, 177r:194v, 197r:206v, 211r:216v, 221r:249v, 262r:279v, 284r:294v, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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