"ملف 53/32 V (D 128) مسائل متنوعة خاصة بالكويت" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٤] (٤٧٤/٢٨٧)

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the article, or, if illiterate, may Hear about it, or even by
the Shaikh, of Kuwait himself. vVhen the * Iraqi Press talk about
the Annexing* of Kuwait, though naturally this is annoying to
the Shaikh, the latter must know (at least I presume he does)
that if the 1 Iraqi Grovernment were ever so stupid as to attempt
annexation this would be an act of war which we would deal with
speedily and effectively. But this talk about Bin Baud going
back on the 1 Oqair Treaty, and Cox knowing about Bin Saud 1 s
real intentions at the time he made the Treaty, seems to me a
good deal more harmful® The Chaikh has always felt very sore
over this Treaty which he feels (vide Dickson's demi-official
letter of 2nd October 1934 to the India Office, vide India
/p-IWo V>
Office Printed Letter No,P•Z,6160/34 of 19th October 1934) gave
away tribes and territory to Bin Saud which rightly belonged to
Kuwait. The Feutral Zone especially he looivS on as belonging
by right to him (vide Dickson's letter quoted above) and not
as joint property between himself and Bin Saud as it was made
by the Treaty.
4. I am sure he will not suspect Cox, who was a friend of
his, of bad faith, but the whole trend of the article may well
leave an uneasy feeling in his mind with regard to the Keutral
Zone. I shall do my best to disabuse him of this feeling by
telling him that the article is of course - ^as he knows" -
rubbish from beginning to end.
5. With regard to Dickson 's Express Letter I think it
unlikely that the article was inspired, from Riath, and agree
with the suggestion imde in his paragraph 3 that its motive
is probably pecuniary.
♦
I am sending copies of this letter to Metcalfe, Walton
and Dickson. v ,
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♦sent under d.o.P.L.No.39-S of 10/1/36.