"سلسلة ذات طابع سري، عربستان ولورستان ٨٦ ملف ٨٢/٢٧ - V نفط قطر" [و‎‎٤‎١] (٤٦٦/٩٠)

entirely snaaoth and Batisfaotory*
5* ab re^trds 1 you way iftfeno Iba 3aud that if
he will ceae« t© contest the undoubted validity Kfortfoft /
in international law of the 1913-14 line His Majesty's
Goveriuaeat will be prepa*«<it as in the earlier case of
KUwai t 9 to consider sympathetically and to authorise
you to discuss on your return any reasoliable proposal
for minor adjustments* You mi^it suggest that now
that his achievements have brought hie country into
the circle of fully independent and properly oonstit-
^uted States he cannot ? merely seek to set aside
generally accepted principles of international law
which govern relations between such States . It would
be impossible for His Majesty's Government to discuss
the boundary question on any other basis*
4*» as regards 2 you should merely indicate that |
the ha obligations of His Majesty's Government towards
the diiaikh make it impossible to consider their relations
with Ibn Saud as entirely satisfactory until some method
is found of alleviating the damaging effects of the
blockade upon the Shali&dom* should the King raise the
question of the Shaikh's claims { regarding which position
has not yet been cleared up with Shaikh ) you may say that
His Majesty's Government agree that this matter must be
settled also*
5. His Majesty's Government will be glad to ©on-
•aider any proposals on these two points which His
Majesty can communicate to them while you are on leave
in order that on your return to Jedda you may be in
possession of full instructions to enable you to discuss
settlement of both*
6. *s regards desiderata of Ibn Gaud, since tJ
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are uncertain you can only take note of them for report
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to me. But if, as seeme likely, his main desire is for
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some tl^xtenlng of ties of friendship, while you should
bear in mind the caution prescribed in my telegram Mo*. 13,
you