Development of fresh water supplies from Iraq p.2

FO 1016/368 1954
Political Agency,

KUWAIT

tial

1421/76

August 2, 1952.

I enclose a suggested draft for a note to
the Iraqi Government for your consideration. It
is cast in the third person but it might be
preferable to put it into the first person.
Bagdad will presumably be best a ble to judge this.

2. The last paragraph is drafted in two
versions, the first is suggested if we wish to
confine negotiations to a technical level while
the Caretaker Government remains in power, the
second if we prefer to press forward with
negotiations. Again, perhaps we can leave this
to Bagdad.

3. If, as suggested in the fourth paragraph
of your telegram No.175 of 28th July, you would
like me to come to Bahrain, I shall be glad to
do so on the first available plane after hearing
from you.

N.M.P. Reilly

His Excellency
Mr. B.A.B. Burrows, C.M.G.,

British Residency, Bahrain.