Internal Political Situation: Kuwait

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Possible changes in the reshuffle of positions in the Kuwait Government (15)
• Increase in membership of the Supreme Council. Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmad denies this, but admitted that non-Sheikhly people were occasionally present for consultations on particular subjects (16)
• Sheikh Abdulla Al Salem Al Sabah's denial of rumours that the Supreme Council had been enlarged, that some of the new members were not members of the Ruling Family and that the Supreme Council was making greater use of sub-committees on which individuals who were not full members of the Supreme Council were co-opted (17)
• Problems regarding the agreement between the Kuwaiti authorities and the Kuwait Oil Company that the state would bear half the cost of the security force in Ahmadi (18)
• Appointment of Abdul Aziz Ali al Mutawwa (a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood) to a post on the Higher Islamic Council (19)
• The 'Kuwait for Kuwaitis' attitude that exists amongst some in Kuwait (20)
• Present state of the Kuwait Civil Service Commission, which is responsible for putting into effect the monumental laws (21)
• Translation of an article in Il Tempo from 24 August 1960 titled 'Kuwait likes Nasser but is decidedly opposed to Qasim' (22)
• Summary of amendments to the law on posts in the Kuwait civil service (23)
• List of important Kuwait Standing Committees as at 1 September 1960 (24)