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              to achieve his oh joe t. From what I gathered during my
              subsequent stay at Dhahran it sooms likely that there
              are two schools of thought in that Company. Ono is
              that thoy havo plenty to keop thorn busy on land and do
              not want to get involved in a sea-bed operation and
              that thereforo it doos not much matter to them where this

              lino is drawn. The other is that in tho interests of
              their long-torm association with Saudi Arabia they aro
              bound to give tho King tho best possible advice in his
              favour. I expect that tho latter will prevail. But it is
              possible that thoro will emorgo from Aramco a suggestion
              for some kind of sharing of any oil that may bo found in
              this area. This.might, as has boon agreed in previous
              correspondence, bo in tho last resort accoptablo to. us if
              nothing better can bo obtained. Shaikh Yusuf's mind seemed

              to bo running more on the idea that Kashi bu Saafa itsolf
              might bo divided as a separate entity but that the
              gonoral boundary should remain more or less as drav/n by
              both tho British and Saudi dologations at the 19131 talks,
               o.g. by splitting tho comparatively small difference
              between tho two lines produced on that occasion. I refer
              below to the gonoral question of how far v/o could or ought
              to be prepared to bargain concessions over other matters
              in return for Saudi acceptance of our proposals in this
               question.
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