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'File 5/1 VI Kuwait Oil Company' [111r] (226/620)
The record is made up of 1 file (306 folios). It was created in 2 Jan 1933-25 May 1933. 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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Telegrams- P.
From:
H.M*s Secretary of State for the Colonies,
London.
*
Tos-
Ho: -
Dated:-
Political Besident,Bushire#
2 .
4th (received 5th) February 1933#
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IMPORTANT.
From the last paragraph of my telegram No# 9fi
of 22 nd December you will have seen that we had hoped
that in the light of Petroleum Department's memorandum
and discussion with you and Dickson,Shaikh of Kuwait would
have felt able to make an<| early,if not necessarily an
immediate,decision as between the Anglo Persian Oil Company
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and the Eastern & General Syndicate on a broad view of the
financial and other major considerations involved. It
seems possible now that the decision may be unduly delayed
and the position complicated by discussion with the eom-
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petitors of the details of the draft concessions# This
be
would/likely,incidentally,to raise important points in
connection with safeguards and also with such questions
as Railways,Telegraphs,exclusion of certain areas etc.,
on which the Shaikh will require the advikce of H.M's
Government. I shall be glad,therefore,if,unless you see
any objection,you will indicate to the Shaikh the
desirability of avoiding discussion of such details until
he has decided which company to grant the concession to.
You will also no doubt ensure that the Shaikh gives
the representatives of the companies clearly to understand
that it is condition of the discussion that he may,after
he had made his decision as between the competing companies
require amendment of draft agreement on any points on
which H.M's Government advise him to insist (in this
connection please see last sentence of penultimate para
graph of my telegram No:9 of 22nd December.
This proviso in itself renders detailed discussion
of any but general and financial features of draft
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This file contains papers relating to the negotiations on oil exploration and extraction agreements between the ruler of Kuwait and the British Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait. The majority of the papers discuss the controversy surrounding the competition between the Anglo Persian Oil Company and the Eastern and General Syndicate for oil contracts in the territory of Kuwait. Arabic documents are either correspondence 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. in Kuwait and the Ruler of Kuwait or translations of agreements relating to oil concessions in Kuwait.
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- 1 file (306 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 308; 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 20-302; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/R/15/5/241
- Title
- 'File 5/1 VI Kuwait Oil Company'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 20r:43v, 47r:47v, 49r:91v, 94r:129v, 131r:132v, 135r:153v, 155r:159v, 161r:267v, 269r:272v, 274r:307v, 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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