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'File 5/1 IV Kuwait Oil Company' [116r] (236/604)
The record is made up of 1 file (298 Folios). It was created in 2 Jun 1931-7 Aug 1932. 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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Telegram XX., No. 62^, dated 25th February 1932.
From . .
Viceroy CF. & P. Deptt.), New Delhi.
T° • • • ^ ' ■ Secretary of State for India, London.
(Copy (2) to
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.
, Bushire, by Air Mail).
lour telegram dated 3rd February No. 384 and connected
correspondence. Koweit oil.
2. Policy of His Majesty’s Government in Gulf region
was authoritatively defined by Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs speaking in House of Lords on 5th May 1903. Ex
tract will be found in Lorimer’s Gazetteer Volume I Part I
page 369. It will be noticed that even then suggestion
that our efforts should be directed towards exclusion of
legitimate trade of other Powers was emphatically repudia
ted. If we attempt to define what constitutes legitimate
trade we can find no more satisfactory criterion than that
which is genuinely beneficial to interests of principalities
in Gulf region.
ceding on this line, although we must admit force
of many/arguments and anticipations to which Biscoe has given
expression in his telegram of 7th February No. 93, and are .
under no illusion that if concession were granted it would
prove unmixed blessing either for Koweit or for His Majesty’s.
Government and ourselves, yet drawbacks which he pictures
are likely to arise in matters incidental. Moreover some
of them at least could be avoided by maintenance of good
relations with foreign Government concerned. If attention
is confined to essentials, we incline to opinion that, suoject
to certain reservations, balance of advantage lies in admiss
ion of American interests. For if project does not develop,
no harm will have ensued. If it does, engagement o.f American
capital on considerable scale in Gulf will make for stabil
ity and world peace, which we regard as His Majesty’s Govern-
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This file contains correspondence relating to the initiation of oil exploration operations in Kuwait. Its papers detail the initial stages of geological prospecting and the agreements drawn between British authorities, the ruler of Kuwait, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Of note are papers that discuss the role of Major Frank Holmes in initiating the operations of the Eastern and General Syndicate in the Gulf. Arabic correspondence consists primarily of letters between the ruler of Kuwait and 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.
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- 1 file (298 Folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 300; 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 3-295; 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/15/5/239
- Title
- 'File 5/1 IV Kuwait Oil Company'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:6v, 8r:10v, 12r:30v, 33r:49v, 51r:84v, 86r:99v, 101r:118v, 120r:126v, 128r:134v, 136r:161v, 164r:186v, 188r:188v, 190r:190v, 193r:198r, 199v, 201r:201v, 223r:224v, 226r:241v, 243r:249v, 251r:291v, 295r:299v, 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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