1 1 for /the policy you suggested. Fraser said, however, that he would be coming to Kuwait during October, either before or after the Beirut oil conference, and that he would discuss these matters with you. You may then be able to persuade him that "Arabisation now" is in the Company's interests. I cannot say I am convinced as yet. 7. It seems to me that there may be some thing of a vicious circle in all this: because the non-Kuwaiti Arabs know that they cannot hague w sense y security & become Kuwaiti citizens, th y feel no loyalty towards the State of Kuwait and, by extension, the Company, and therefore are unreliable employees from the Company's point of view. since they have no sense of security". I cannot help thinking, however, that, at any rate as regards the first generation of NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN non-Kuwaiti Arabs, they are probably more like the French who venture abroad, than like the British in that, having made a nice little nest-egg in Kuwait, they intend to spend their declining years in their country of origin or somewhere more salubrious than Kuwait, and even if they had acquired Kuwaiti nationality they would probably here dropped it unless it paid them to be a foreigner in the place to which they retire. In addition Fraser pointed out that all the expatriates living ñ Kuwait (and he calculated these as being about 100,000 as against 150,000 Kuwaiti-born) a large proportion, perhaps 80%, constituted the labour force required in Kuwait during the period of expansion, but likely to go home when verron expansion ceased, inorder to make their well d make there gotten gains go further among their own kith
