"ملف ٥/٢ VI المنطقة المُحايدة في الكويت" [و‎‎٣‎٨] (٧٠٢/٧٥)

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D.O.No. C'//9^
THE POLITICAL AGENCY.
KUWAIT.
The 8th February, T 49.
jear >3ir ^uperu,
Will you please refer to correspondence
ending with my telegram No.J/24 dated 23rd November,
1948?
2. I shall be grateful to Know if any advance
has been made in the appointment of the Chief Local
Representative for Aminco. fhe SheiAh’s Representative
of the Company writes on Kuwait Government not e-pa oer
asKing for visas for Kuwait for employees of the
Company. This shows that they are still sending out
employees from the 3tates to Kuwait, and does not
presage any immediate departure from Kuwait in spite
of the fact that the Company have no territory in
which to operate. Also there is a considerable amount
of talK about the oheiKh’s having granted them a
piece of land on which to build offices and staff
quarters on the spare land outside the boundary fence
of Dasman. The dheiKh informs me that he has agreed
to no such site, though I cannot be certain that this
is a fully accurate statement.
3. I venture to proohesy, on the basis of
the SheiKh’s present attitude towards co-operation
between the Kuwait Oil Company and the Agency, that
after the appointment of a Chief Local Representative
we should find it hard indeed to make the Company
conform to the Agreement. Whether or not we should
endeavour to is not of immediate importance, what I
require is an officially appointed person with whom
I can deal in case of need and who by Agreement is
bound to wotk through me in certain matters.
Yours sincerely,
H.E. Sir Rupert Hay, KCIE.,C3I.,
Political Resident,
Persian Gulf Residency,
BAHRAIN.
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