Abstract: This file concerns clearance ('No Objection') for Saudi Arabian aircraft to land at Bahrain and the issuing of visas. The correspondence within the file is between His Majesty's Minister at Jedda; Alan Trott, His Majesty's Ambassador at Jedda; the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Acting Adviser to the Bahrain Government; the Political Agent at Kuwait; and the Government of Pakistan, Karachi.The correspondence of 1945 (ff 2-5) concerns permission for an aeroplane to visit Bahrain to collect Seifal Islam Abdullah (Sayf al-Islām ‘Abdullāh) who was due to arrive from Iraq on 4 December 1945, and the cancellation of this arrangement due to him proceeding from Damascus instead. The correspondence of 1947 (f 6) concerns the issuing of visas to Aramco Americans and the decision to give blanket clearance to Aramco planes registered in Ethiopia so as to obtain the benefits of the Chicago Convention (but not to Saudi Arabian planes, unless Saudi Arabia is prepared to give reciprocal rights to Kuwaiti and British aircraft). The correspondence for 1948 (ff 7-11) concerns the issuing of a visa and clearance for the Amir of Hasa (al-Aḥsā’), Saud bin Jiluwi [Sa‘ūd bin Jalawī], to travel to Pakistan and India for urgent medical treatment.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence and papers concerning relations between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and British officials’ efforts to negotiate the lifting of a trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the of King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). The volume is a direct chronological continuation of ‘1/1 Volume III Koweit Saudi Relations’ (IOR/R/15/5/111), and includes:Further diplomatic exchanges amongst British, Saudi and Kuwaiti officials, relating to the incursion into Kuwaiti territory by an armed Saudi party in May 1935.Saudi assertions that smuggling from Kuwait into Saudi Arabia has increased in the wake of the Kuwait-Saudi conference held in July 1935.The death of the Amir of Hasa [al-Aḥsā’] Abdulla al Jiluwi [‘Abdullāh bin Jilūwī Āl Sa‘ūd] in October 1935;Discussions regarding a proposal, put forward by Ibn Saud, for the recognition of Arafa [’arafa] law between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.In early 1936, Saudi Government proposals for a lifting of the blockade, and reports of the Ruler of Kuwait’s agreement in principle to the proposals.The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Kuwait Political Agent (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle); the British Government’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Andrew Ryan); the British Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); representatives of the Government of Saudi Arabia (Fuad Bey Hamza, Yusuf Yasin, Feysal [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]); the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 249; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves.Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 4-246; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.