مجموعة ٢/٥٤ "لجنة الشرق الأوسط (الرسمية): مجموعة العمل" [و‎‎٢‎٦‎٦] (٦٤٢/٥٣١)

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it may become more bemwolant ,..vu ae clrcuor^tarice^
cl 0 ve 1 1 : p an d t h s r oy a X11 <■ s i n c r o a $ e..,
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7o One other general fitter, A- CcL. Iji.ckron, a form^r
Political, agent at .Kuweit, acts as liaison betiveeh .tUe
Sheikh e:ad the Oil Company - by »vho!i‘; he is pa:l£ s* salaryo
A three hours talk ■•’i'/r: him ga^e r;it- ta in:: re^aion that he.
consIrlere.d himself to be' the only person through whom the
affairs of the Company should be disc ussy3 with the Shaikh e
He convinced me of his very, keen interns I in the wellbeing
of •tie Arabs but I could not holy feel in/ that scae of hi:,
■outbursts of criticism.against the Company v?ere' anw-ise ond
in my judgement illccnceivad 0 It oaeni red to - me that if:
r;hat he os id to me was used in .discussions .with the She ikh
.and his chief officials - for example« .he mentioned .a rather
us conversation he had with the Chief of Police of
Kuweit ~ the Sheikh’s attitude to the Company’s affairs, and
particularly their scores of difficulties during the
expansion period may bs adversely affected» His Influence
of course may not be so great as he led mo tc believe. He
is elderly and verbose and his very many years' in Kuweit
may have encouraged him to exaggerate the place he. ought to
occupy in the determination and application of the Company’s
policyc For exempl'3 f he told* me he '^commanded” the “Sheikh’ .-3
Ouarda" at the Company’s developing sre-a at Ahmadi* They
were armed with t, carbibes n and he was responsible for their
“duties' 1 and-the “guard posts”.they should occupy. Yet, the
Company hud started its o;:n. p/.-licq - security fcrce> Lr the
same area* ’’This was the creation of a Slate .within a 8tete ,?
and he ‘had told the Police Co^Lu^n-janf tc : lor
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not be risht for me to do more, then record xv
in this report; I did not mention the matter
Company 9 s re prefer: tntive. T1: f course-
pro v i d o a s o: n 11 en o
If would
impre s oions
to any
of events may
KUWEIT OIL COMPANY«
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be obvious from the foregoing
paragraphs X propose tc limit in this report the detailed
information I usually give after a first visit to an area
So much of what X collected during my stay at K.uveit will
soon be out of dote. It will be sufficient if I furnish
comments on particular features as a guide to the general
posLticr 0
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