"ملف ٥ /١ VI شركة نفط الكويت" [و‎‎٢‎٤‎٦] (٦٢٠/٤٩٦)

SECRET
No. 87.
POLI 'IT CAL AGENCY,
KUWAIT.
Dated the 3rd May 1933.
From
Lt.-Colonel H.R.P.Dickson, C.I.E., I.A.,
Political Agent, Kwait;
To
The Hon’hie the Political Resident
in the Persian Gulf,
BUSHI R E ,
Sir,
As ordered in your telegram No.346, dated 2nd
May 1933, I have the honour to forward, herewith, a copy of
my telegram No.84 of 30th April, duly paraphrased.
2. Regarding the last paragraph of this telegram -
Holmes now tells me that he cannot get accommodation/on the
west-hound plane leaving Kuwait on the 4th May, so will
have to go on that leaving on the 11th May. Should however,
he fail to get/seats then, he will go overland via Mosul
and Istamhoul.
This information, I think, should he telegraphed
to London, provided you see no objection.
3. The latest Oil developments, as reported in my
telegram No.84, are interesting and I think clearly show
that the Shaikh, hy having been given the very free hand he
has, is going further and further away from the direction
in which His Majesty’s Government would like him to go, for
the simple reason that he interprets ’enforced neutrality’
on my part as weakness on the part of His Majesty’s govern
ment, with the natural result that he tends daily to get
more and more under the control ol i.olmes and farther and
farther/