Visits by MPs from UK to states in Persian Gulf

FO 371/126922 1957
Description

This file contains correspondence relating to:

  • Visit of the three MPs D Marshall, W G Glenvil Hall and Roderic Bowen to Kuwait as guests of the Kuwait Oil Company (1)
  • Commander D Marshall's planned visit to Kuwait (2)
  • Planned visit of A P L Barber MP to oil countries, including the Gulf, under the sponsorship of the Iraq Petroleum Company (3)
  • The Sultan of Muscat and Oman's refusal to meet visiting MPs (4)
  • Reports of the meetings between the three MPs J Peyton, W Ross and J T Price, B A B Burrows and the Ruler of Qatar about the situation in the Middle East. The Arab-Israeli conflict and relations with Russia were dominant themes of conversation (5)
  • Report of the meeting between the four MPs Barber, Price, Peyton and Ross and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (6) MP Frederick Gough's planned visit to Kuwait and Qatar about the possibility of extending a pension scheme to state employees in those two Sheikhdoms (7)
  • Visit to Kuwait of Hugh Fraser MP and his wife as guests of the Kuwait Oil Company (8)