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Notes to Chapter Nine

85 See memorandum by the Government of Qatar to the Saudi-Kuwaiti
delegation dated 27 January 1971 in Resolutions.
86 See letter from the Foreign Minister of Kuwait to the Ruler of Qatar
dated 14 April 1971, dealing with the seven proposals.
87 In March a Kuwaiti delegation had already sounded out the chances of
reaching agreement; see ARR, issue 6, 16-31 March 1971.
88 In doing so Qatar wanted to eliminate the reasons for Abu Dhabi’s
objection to the stipulation which would have made it obligatory for
that state to pay more because of its very large income and small
population.
89 See ARR, issue 8, 15-21 April 1971.
90 See below, pages 36 7f.
91 The Times of 3 March 1971; see also an interview published by the Daily
Telegraph on 29 March 1971.
92 The Iranian Foreign Minister celebrated the Conservative confirmation
of Britain's withdrawal as a diplomatic victory for Iran.
93 On 12 May Shaikh Zayid’s close adviser, Ahmad Khallfah al Suwaidi,
visited Bahrain; Sir William Luce returned from the Arab shore to
Teheran on 22 May and went via Cairo back to London on 30 May. King
Faisal of Saudi Arabia visited the Shah on 16 May; a Saudi Minister of
State for Foreign Affairs visited Kuwait on 26 May, and the Ruler of
Kuwait had talks with the Egyptian Foreign Minister on 31 May. King
Faisal and President Sadat of Egypt discussed the Gulf on 21 June;
Shaikh Zayid had a meeting with the British Foreign Secretary on 16
June, and the Iranian Ambassador to Britain visited the Foreign
Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, on 21 June 1971.
94 According to the daily Beirut of 27 June, these were: 1. that Iran would
lease the military base which was to be vacated by Britain, 2. that
Bahrain should not follow Kuwait's invitation to form a federation of
these two states if the bigger federation failed, 3. that Bahrain should
not interfere with Iran’s claim to the islands, and 4. that Iran should
have favoured nation status in Bahrain. See ARR, issue 12, 16-31 June
1971.
95 See Heard-Bey, Frauke, ‘‘Katar’’ in Handbuch der Dritten Welt. Bd. 4,
Hamburg, 1978, pp. 329-35.
96 The majority of the sixteen ministers were members of the ruling family
who had already been in charge of departments in the previous
government organisation.
97 Other such duties were: exchange controls, responsibility for civil
aviation, control of the importation of weapons and ammunition and the
licensing of alcohol for the consumption by non-Muslims. A detailed
accou nt of such responsibilities is given in the weekly Abu Dhabi News
of Thursday, 15 July 1971.
98 See above, pages 319ff.

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