"ملف ٢٢\٢٣ II مؤتمر الكويت ١٩٢٤" [و‎‎٧‎٤] (٥٤٤/١٤٧)

it will not pocfcit e to despatch theism letter* until
the mail which leavet Kuwait aoout iht . 1 * i of v . nuar < y and
they will not reach - *hr. in until about th bth i'efcru ry but
they should reach His, Hi^hm/fes'L hands at th^ latest before
the 10 th of February and ii is unlikely that in the jneantiaM*
th* envoys of Hodjas and irans Jordania will be able to reach
Kuwait much before; that date.
in thobc 1 *ti«,rt, with the exc ption of onn difficulty to
which i will allude iur^-after, 1 have done my bast to place
before hie li^hn^sa Uit tultt.n the exact position of affaire.
1 <.o not think I e&n usefully add more here in regard to the
difficulties the onferenc ha* disclosed.
It a^y however be as well to close this letter with a
rei renc* to the very sharp differ nee oi opinion th t has
arisen between myself and the $ajd envoy* in the matter of the
evidence of ‘ ir l ercy Cox.
ihe f irst reference to the difficulty between jd and -‘raq
in re ard, to the promise made at ^jair will b found in the
minetoo of the 4at Session of th« Conference held at 4:30 P.i .
on Monday the 27tii Ptcemoer 1023 when Abdullah fl^ndi,
r presentative of & jd # recaarked * It was agreed at -juir that
i%ll past incident* be forgot tan** • ihis was imnediati ly denied
by the ^resident of the Iraq JCele^ «tion. Abdulla fiendi euid
ih*t he Cvuld produce dociiment ry proofs but these proof* have
never been furnished. I rther references to the question will
be found in the Kejd tic lion'* commtnts on the ±raq le at ’i
reply at the ^th Css*ion, p^rr^r ph 2 . hie ; ar graph is
interesting because of the new position now taken up by the Sejd
dtlsgi tes according to which they stats th t, whether it
ir -ntpires that ^ ir i'trcy Cox did or did not give a promise to
His Highness the ‘ ultan of kejd th«t losses prior to the Ujair
onftrviice eheuid be -vipfeui ofi thfe »1 tc, they nont 'he less
have other arguments wnich mutt ie considered, before they
consent to abandon t % ir cl im. fjissc arguments are of the