Coll 30/172 'Attitude of Ibn Saud (Saudi Arabia) towards Arab rulers in Persian Gulf and P. Gulf affairs.' [‎30r] (60/66)

;o~p»ny, la at prwaant in adds m5goti«r ing for per-
Iftslon to eatabllah an office at <aa Tanura# considers
that the andl hopes baaed on km Tenure have b«? n for
higher than the Ircu atonies cnrer wairanted. He believes
that hey have evon at times envisaged Has Tenure as an
enormoue entrepot eerving as a port of traneit for Bahrain
and thus reversing the present position so galling to Ibn
&aud; whereas in hie opinion there is no need to have wharvet
and warehouses at iise ' onura or indeed to land cargo there
at all: it can best be used* he maintains, «e a deep-water
anchorage where tankers can take Ad oil from the ttaea oil
field, and cargo for ^audi Arable can be transhipped Into
bargee for despatch under tow to A1 Khubar and elsewhere,
for the oil field, and to Wqair, fo** hofuf and Kiyadh*
t 1® interesting in this connection to ^uote Fuad Bey
Hamse, who returned from Iraq, via Kuwait, while I was at
Riyadh. He spoke of the nearness of Kuweit to Riyadh by
car, and pointed out that for a person ravelling from
Klyadh by car, it took no longer to reach Basra, with its
air-lines connecting with urope and the set, than Hofuf#
This is true, and the traveller at Hofuf la atill a diffi
cult day's journey by car from Has Tanura. It may be,
tnen, that the Saudi authorities recognise that even if
Haa Tamra can be made iato a good port, it la not very
convenient cm to situation.
4» Ibn i>aud la also worried about Iraqi designs on
Kuwait - another o bjcct which he brought up during my
visit. I p ve reasons for believing that Kuwait would not
easily be swallowed up by Iraq, but the ling may think that i
the position of Kuwait would be s ronger if he had signed
the proposed agreement, which would tend to show that
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