I write to thank you for your important Registry No. BA 1017/26 despatch No.42 (10112/60) of August 14, which has been read with interest by Ministers and Top-Seeret. Seeret. Confidential. Restrieted. Open which has been printed and given FOWH distribution under the title - "Kuwait for Draft. the Kuwaitis". Letter to: 2. We share your concern at the restrictive nature of the revised Kuwaiti nationality law J.C.B.Richmond, Esq.,C.M.G. Kuwait. From: Mr Beaumont. NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN. with its inherent danger that there will şyers menu come into existence a generation/born in Kuwait of foreign fathers but not enjoying Kuwaiti nationality who will clearly resent an under-privileged existence in what is and has always been their home. On the face of it, if I read this Law aright, even an Arab born in Kuwait of non-Kuwaiti parents can only apply for Kuwaiti nationality after ten years (on the assumption that a minor can be Copy to M.C.G.Man, Bahrain. HQ.BFAP assumed to have been "legally resident in Kuwait") and is then restricted to the 50 vacancies allotted each year for naturalisation. This means that the danger will be a very real one and a very great one. 3. We agree that we should do what we can to modify the Kuwaiti attitude on this DIVISION 2 SEP 1960 question since it is likely to serve only to build up trouble for Kuwait in the long-run. altogether We do not, however,/ share your views that neither H.M.G. nor the Political Agency should take any direction action in this but that the K.O.C., by a policy of Arabisation, shoulder In the first place it seems to us entirely wrong to make an oil company the spearhead (76252) Hw.
