"ملف ٥ /١ VI شركة نفط الكويت" [و‎‎٢‎٩‎٤] (٦٢٠/٥٩٢)

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5. * »a j or Holm as at onoe, and very angrily, denied
that he had been told anything at all about the Shaikh's
decision either by a telegram or letter or verbally:
•n obvious ’falsehood" of course, seeing that he did not
leave Batoain till the 15th ay, and even had he not re
ceived his Agents telegram it was ridiculous to suppose
that he had been in Kuwait from 17th Kay to the 32nd May
and loarnt nothing.
6. Major Holmes went on hotly to assure me "on his
plighted 1 word that he knew nothing, and had been told
nothing. He then seemed to lose his head altogether, ^
and started abusing the Shaikh, yourself, myself, the V
British Government and above all the A.P.O.C., vowing
vengeance at us all in rather scandalous manner. At any
other time I would have turned him out of my house for
saying half what he did, but as I hoped to get something
out of him, I let him be. Vust wait", he said, "and see
what the American Government, who are behind me, will do”.
He then shouted that he was not beaten yet, that he would
get his concession in spite of all the world, and that
then the American Government would enter the lists them
selves and send a representative to Kuwait to ensure that
their Oil Company got a fair do with the Ahaikh and with
His Majesty’s Government.
7* Having volunteered this rather interesting
piece of information, he suddenly calmed down, and I
was able to tell him that his news that he had not been
told anything, was doubly strange, seeing that I had an
official letter from the -Shaikh, dated the 19th May con
firming that he (the Shaikh) had informed both parties
(the A.P.O.C. and the ISastern & General Syndicate) that