"ملف ٥ /١ VI شركة نفط الكويت" [و‎‎١‎٠‎١] (٦٢٠/٢٠٦)

Confidential.
P«0»Ho«34
Political Agency, Kuwait.
Bated the 1st February 1933.
I have recently and once again been going through
the enclosures which you forwarded to me under your confidential
No*C.l£ dated the 14th January 1933.
3. I have been particularly impressed with the several
references made by the Air Ministry and War Office to Admiralty’s
letter No.M*02977/38 dated the 18th November 1932 to the Colonial
Office.
3* I have a rather uncacrfertuble feeling that if things
go wrong and the shaikh gives the Oil Concession to Major Holmes,
I shall be told that X ought to had the ^sense^ to make known
somehow to the Shaikh, tue Admiralty, Air Force and Array points
of views in the mat er, even though officially 1 was forbidden
to advise or guide the Jhaikh in the way he should go.
4. In order to cover myself somewhat, therefore, would
it be possible for you, do you think, to forward privately to
say v/alton or Laithwnite, a copy of my confidential D.O.No.818
dated the 26th December 1932. This will show them that I also
in December last felt considerable doubts on the wisdom of
letting the Shaikh decide things for himself, without our giving
him advice or guidance.
a shall be grateful tar a line in reply to this.
Hon'ble Lieutenant-Colonel T.C.W.Fowle,
Political Kesident in the Persian Gulf,
Bush ire.