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Dear Lepper,
yould y u please refer tu your letter of 21 st
February regarding the drafting of Article 1 of
you. proposed' Ml Jcaee sion Agreement v/ith the Sheikh
of o\ 7 e:lt covering hi rights in the Neutral £cne*
I understood you to „ay that the remaining
Articles of the draft a reeaent followed the lines
of the o.veit Oil Cvinpany's Oduuoereial Agreeiaent of
23 rd December, 1 934. 'i'he ternki will clearly affect
Ion Saud and the Caltex C and we should, therefore,
have ex acted (th* ugh are not entirely clear on this
point J that the Agreement will have to be cle red with
Ibn >aud nd Caltex before it may be finalised. In this
case iu will piesu.^obly be impo ssible for an agreement
ot the t pe c nten?)la^ed to be finalised during
ibrahaa* s pro jnt vi: it to Kowoit. e should, therefore,
in the cii'cunistaiioes like to hav? the opportunity of
considGrini: further with the ministry of Fuel said Power
and Foreign Office the precise drafting of this Article
before givin, you a definite opinion.
Subject to there reservations it may be of assistance
to you now to have the opinion of our Legal 'dvie or who
lias noted as follows.
G.
" iven ii it were possible - and I thirtc it would be
somewhat difficult - wQ to frame an article as to safeguard
the po it ion of the B.O.C. in the particular manner
suggested/
Lepper, Esq.,
Burmah Oil Com ary,
Britannic House, ,
Fi nsbury Circus, E.C.2.