Meetings with Sultan

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Invite to a supper party hosted by RAF Salalah for the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur (1)
• Meeting between W H T Luce and the Sultan. Topics of discussion include: Buraimi and the de Ribbing Mission; and the Sultan's proposed summer visit to England (2-3)
• HMG's relations with the Sultan and an account of a conversation with Commander Thomas Fox-Pitt of the Anti-Slavery Society about the Sultan. Fox-Pitt wanted advice to assist an MP in framing a parliamentary question about HMG's responsibility for affairs in the Sultanate. Fox-Pitt mentioned in passing that he is a regular reader of Faris Glubb (5)
• Letter informing the Sultan of A R Walmsley's departure for a posting as counsellor to Khartoum (6)
• Meeting between J S R Duncan and the Sultan at Salalah. Topics of discussion include: postponement of the subsidy review; the Aden-Dhofar boundary dispute; the John Profumo affair; the Dhofar Force; education; people living in Trucial States having date gardens on the Batinah coast and being refused entry if not in possession of a visa; increases in labour force at Masirah Island; the appointment of a doctor at Muscat Charitable Hospital; passport delays for Muscatis in the Kuwait Oil Company; the sale of Land Rovers to persons with a Sultan's Armed Force's permit; and locust flights and surveys. The Sultan was concerned that spies might infiltrate the locust survey planes (7)
• Query by Jan Van Wijk about whether the agreement with the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, dated 20 March 1891, regarding the cession of territory is still valid. The Sultan was released from this obligation in 1958 (8)
• Proposed subjects to discuss with the Sultan during his visit to London. This includes: Buraimi and relations with Prince Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia; and the size of the Sultan's additional contribution to defence and civil development (9)
• Record of the conversation between the Lord Privy Seal and the Sultan of Muscat. Topics of discussion include: The de Ribbing Report and the issue of Oman and Buraimi at the United Nations; and the Imam of Oman, Ghalib Bin Ali Bin Hilal Al Hina'i and the Omani rebels (10)
• Agenda and brief for the Lord Privy Seal for his conversations with the Sultan of Muscat. It includes the following topics: Herbert de Ribbing's visit to London; the level of defence and development expenditure; and the expanded military and civil development programme (11)
• J S R Duncan's conversation with the Sultan about the future of his son Sayyed Qaboos Bin Saeed Al Said. They also discussed education and the possibility of a trade school (12)