ملف ١٩٢٨/٥٧، الجزء ١٤ "نجد-الكويت: اقتراحات لتسوية شاملة بين ابن سعود وشيخ الكويت." [و‎‎٣‎٩‎٣] (٨١٠/٧٩٦)

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being specifically raised in connection with thf^r™ ^ Uestl0 f °f statl | s
Order in Council, the Foreign Office in Tnlv ^ ®P aratl0n of a Ivoweit Letter from fxi. to i.o.,
+ r • &11 wnice 111 1931 expressed the view July25 1921 , p. 3495 .
that, from the legal standpoint and on the understanding that there was
m “ D f °. f , l nclud ! n g Koweit within the boundaries of Mesopotamia,
the status of this territory would appear to be governed by Article 132 of
the 1 reaty of Sevres. It was subsequently agreed that a final decision
on . , th r p q^stion of status must await the signature of the Treaty of Peace
ino‘> am * 116 1 Lreat y ()f ^ ausanne having been signed in the autumn
m steps \vere taken to introduce an Order in Council providing for
British jurisdiction within the territory of the Sheikh. That territorv, as
stated in para. 2 above, may now be regarded as an independent Arab State
under British protection, but not a British protectorate.
23. The questions of most importance which have arisen in Koweit since
the conclusion of the War are the following:—
O
A. Internal: —
(1) Koweit Order in Council providing for British jurisdiction within
the Principality.
(2) Termination of the lease of Bunder Shweikh.
B. External :—
(1) Relations ivith Ibn Saud —
(a) Koweit-Nejd-Iraq boundary question ;
(b) Koweit-Nejd Customs question ;
(c) The Akhwan menace.
(2) Relations with Iraq —
(a) Exemption from taxation of date gardens in Iraq of the Sheikh of
Koweit;
(b) Position of Koweit vis-a-vis Iraq.
(3) Relations with Persia.
Internal Questions, 1919-28.
(a) The Koweit Order in Council. .
24. Idle question of extending the scope of the “Persian Coast and
Islands Order in Council, 1907,” had been under consideration before the
War, but no decision had been reached upon it, the difficulty in icspect o
Koweit having principally been the undesirability of taking action before a
settlement should have been arrived at with Turkey in regard to the Arab
Littoral In December 1919 the Civil Commissioner at agna^ a_,am * Letter from c.c. to g. of
raised* the Question of passing a jurisdictional Order in Council for Koweit. l, Dec. 22 , 1919 , P. 697 / 20 .
?he India Offi^ 1 expressed the opinion, however, t that, although the Order tmie^o., June s
was desirable in itself and though there would be ^vantage m .ssmng it at
an earlv date, it was desirable to postpone ac 1 ® n ^ 11 \ 1 r , • Mandate
taken on the machinery for the administration of ‘fe^Stv “Govmrnment
and the effect of the \tv r w:r"ce te bf he krSu e 3ffi3 I w u, w u
with contiguous countries, lins \ie\\ was accepmu j 0 1920, p. 4660/20.
•and the matter was allowed to rest for a yeai.
05 The Question was again raised in the summer of 1921 by the ig 1
^ 0 . ine question waa 5 ^ vipw in which the Government
Commissioner in Iraq, who recomn Order in Council need not § Tei. from viceroy t.
f 1 r that the nromulgation of an Order m uounon n^u iiuu ^ ofS forl 241 S . >F
•of India concurred)^ tiiat t 1 » recognised as having lost suzerainty 1921 , p. 1173 / 21 .
be further delayed now that 1 urkey '™ s 1 ^‘ 5 d e< ; o ‘the Colonial Office who,
over the Principality, flit in. terton .s ffl itli Committee, had become
under the recommendations ot t T t ‘ , e .1 p ers i an Gulf. On reference
responsible for policy on the Aia 3 a 0 < ^ . point of view
to the Foreign Office they were mformed thaUrom^^ Kowe it
and on the supposition that there Ay statns 0 f that territory would
within the boundaries of Mesopotam^, th^ Treaty of S - Vres un< ] er which
seem to be governed b} Arti
to
'eb. 22.