"ملف ٢٢\٢٣ II مؤتمر الكويت ١٩٢٤" [و‎‎٧‎٦] (٥٤٤/١٥١)

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obtain from wbih g wai Uiat would put tbit view before Hi*
Oorernmuni by telegram* It was in vy lele^ram Ko .62 dated t? *.
2 let oi beconber lt 2 b th? \. 1 liret euggeeted that tac evidence
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of i ir PiiToy Cox ae to whether it wa«> agreed, at the Ojair
f onfer ncc, ”to let oygonec be ty^onet" would perhaps settle the
dispute.
the 28tii of December Cr<.blh Beg, the Iraq anroy,
r urned to concult hie prinoip 1 and on the 3rd of **anu ry tht
• ! * h Commietioni r - aghdad in nis telegram Ho.4 ceded the point
that 1 had pressed for and g>ve the resur^nce that the Covernraent
of Ir q would ^ bide by the promise of Sir I’ercy C©i; t if such
promise was made,and arrange for th restoraion ot plunder
t ksn sfter the dati of tii© Ujsir Coaler noe f and hat claims
prior to that Conference would be c ncelled. At th j.^th
Conform nee on the 16 th of January, it was explained in op n
Conference that Iraq had agreed U^ge 3 ot appendix 2 ) to abide
oy the promise of Sir i'ircy Cox, if he Imd undert k^n that all
lunder before the Jjair agreement should b>. for ot ten. If fir
i'ercy Cox declared that he had given tuoh an undert £in*:, the
Iraq Government would respect it and would agreti to withdraw
their claim. Il no , all plunder t Juan after the acctttion of
hie Majesty - ing laisal would be brought into accctmt cstweon the
parties. Sot tfee i OOt protest MO raised by tho H*
delogttes at this Stvge oi the proceedin s. Kgr was anything
said of the i.ind at the 11 th confer nee meeting. *he first
inkling that 1 received of the new attitude t^ken up by the t-jd
deleg tion reached me on the morning of the 24t of January whtn,
after we had recorded In the st stament, prepared to acoompnny my
iirst letter to his highness the fultan of Hejd ( Appendix 7}
i nd referred to in the opening paragr ph of that letter as
st foment >•, tho measure ol agreement reached, I came to consider
the written stat mant prepared uy the ^ejd deleg tes ai my requet t
on the vital point oi which Uuy h d boon unable to secure
cc«-ptancb by tht delegation from Iraq, they had ingeniously
contrived ,o put in writing wruit prtt tm bly they had not the A