10 the Kuwait Government wanted it that way. He added, however, that it was also partly because the non-Kuwaiti staff (as opposed to labour) had proved in practice not to be very reliable. Experience of Palestinians, both in the Training School and the Public Relations Department was very discouraging - not on account of their abilility, which surpassed that of the Kuwaitis, but on account of their unreliability. This affected in turn the policy of dispensing with British staff as the Company was holding on to British staff who were really past their prime in order to avoid having to put in their places Lebanese or Palestinians who were loyal neither to the Government nor to the Company. NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN 5. Fraser admitted that the basic difficulty was that which you had indicated: there were simply not enough qualified Kuwaitis coming forward to fill senior staff posts. There were certain fields, viz. accountancy and nursing, for which there was no prospect of Kuwaitis being available at all at any fore seeable time in the future, and here the Company was pursuing a policy of displacing non-Arabs with Arabs. In general, however, they felt that on a long term view the only policy they could profitably pursue was for the higher jobs to be filled by British, Americans and Kuwaitis, with the proportion of the last steadily increasing as they became available. 6. This clearly does not hold out any very great hopes as far as the K.0.c. is concerned /for
