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Shaikh Muhammad al Jabir Port Direotor,
Shaikh Hamocd al Jabir President of the
fuunicipality.
(b) Shaikh Abdulla As Salim, C.T.H •» paid a short
visit to Syria from 18th July to 15th August.
(o) Shaikh Ali al Khalifah left for r*yria on the 25th

August for sanatorium treatment. He returned on the 15th
December.
III. THE POLITIC Al AGHHT' - KSLATTCTn TITH 7H3 SHAIKH.

The Political Agent's relations with the Shaikh have
remained cordial. His Highness places the .var needs of
C-rent Britain before everything elsa and has always shown

his willingness to cooperate,
iv. loom rmuzsis.

Kuwait politics have teen remarkably quiet in spite of

the disturbances which took place i:. Iraq, in the early summer
The war has brought prosperity to the Kuwait, merchants and
they have become more and more concerned vith their own
affairs and have taken less and less interested in the

domestic politics of the house of 9ubah. This does not mean
that the anti-Shaikh elements have been entirely idie, far

from it, but it does .mean that they have been unable to
obtain any of the influential support so necessary to a
sucoessful opposition.
UjccruMi*
The Hay in Iraq caused mild excitement in

Kuwait and the anti-Shaikh, and therefore anti-British,
party gained the, as it turned out, temporary allegiance
of a number of waverers and His Highness appeared pre­

occupied in public, but it was a very minor affair and whan
Rashid Ali retired into Iran the pro-Nazis resumed their
occupation of listening to Yunls Bnhri in the seclusion of

their private houses. The Shaikh atvL his followers were
triumphant and Shaikh Abdullah laliua, the heir presumptive,

retired to his estates on Palaioha Island, The Iraqi
refugees, of whom there were a considerable number,
regretted that they had ohanged their dinars into rupees at