2. Fox to Secretary of State, June 24, 1933, 890F.6363/Standard Oil Co./17, RG 59, NA («mischief»). Meeting Relating to Oil in the Persian Gulf, April 26, 1933, paragraph 16, POWE 33/241/114869 («rover»); Interview Regarding Kuwait Oil Concession, January 4, 1934, P.Z. 145/1934; p. 4, POWE 33/242/114864 (not ... «particularly satisfactory»), PRO. Longrigg, Oil In the Middle East,
pp. 42, 98–99; Chisholm, Kuwait Oil Concession, p. 161 («Father of oil»); Ward, Negotiations, pp. 23–26.3. Randolph to Secretary of State, May 19, 1924, 741.90G/30; August 15, 1924, 890G.6363/T84/164; November 26, 1924, 890G.6363/T84/189, RG 59, NA. Chisholm, Kuwait Oil Concession,
pp. 127 («little room»), 162; Ferrier, British Petroleum p. 555 («devoid»).4. Ballantyne to Gibson, December 16, 1938, P.Z. 8299/38, POWE 33/195/114869, PRO; Chisholm, Kuwait Oil Concession,
pp. 106–9, («not ... any ... promise» and «pure gamble»), p. 13; Jerome Beatty, «Is John Bull's Face Red,» American Magazine, January 1939 («worst nuisance»).5. P. T. Cox and R. 0. Rhoades, A Report on the Geology and Oil Prospects of Kuwait Territory, June 11, 1935, 638-107-393, Gulf archives; Standard Oil of California, «Report on Bahrein and Saudi Concessions,» December 5, 1940, 3465, DeGolyer papers; Ward, Negotiations,
pp. 80–81 («New York Sheikhs»); Chisholm, Kuwait Oil Concession, pp. 13–14 («greasy substance»); Frederick Lee Moore, Jr., «Origin of American Oil Concessions in Bahrein, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia» (Senior Thesis, Princeton University, 1951), pp. 22–34; Irvine H. Anderson, Aramco, the United States, and Saudi Arabia, 1933–1950 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), pp. 22–23.6. Stone and Wellman to Piesse, October 5, 1928, Brown to Piesse, November 12, 1928, 5-5-35 file. Case 6, Oil Companies papers; Longrigg, Oil In the Middle East, pp.
26–27 («clause» and «interests»).7. Bahrein Oil Concession and U.S. Interests, Rendel Memo, May 30, 1929, E 2521/281/91, FO 371/13730/115395, PRO; Standard Oil of California, «Report on Bahrein and Saudi Concessions,» December 5, 1940, pp. 7–9, 21–22, 3465, DeGolyer papers.
8. Dickson to Political Resident, April 27, 1933, POWE 33/241/114869, PRO («astute Bin Saud»); H. St. J. B. Philby, Arabian Jubilee
(London: Robert Hale, 1952), p. 49; Elizabeth Burgoyne, ed., Gertrude Bell: From Her Personal Papers, 1914–1926 (London: Ernest Benn, 1961), p. 50 («well-bred Arab»).9. Philby, Arabian Jubilee,
pp. 5, 75; Karl S. Twitchell, Saudi Arabia: With an Account of the Development of Its Natural Resources, 3d ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958), pp. 144–54; Jacob Goldberg, The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia: The Formative Years (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), chap. 2 (Mubarak), p. 136 («our advantage»); H. St. J. B. Philby, Saudi Arabia (London: Ernest Benn, 1955), pp. 261–68 («thirty thousand»), 280–92; Christine Moss Helms, The Cohesion of Saudi Arabia: Evolution of Political Identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981), p. 211 («neutral zones»); David Holden and Richard Johns, The House of Saud (London: Pan Books, 1982), pp. 51, 80.10. Clive Leatherdale, Britain and Saudi Arabia, 1925–1939:
The Imperial Oasis (London: Frank Cass, 1983), pp. 114–20.11. Mohammed Almana, Arabia Unified: A Portrait of Ibn Saud
(London: Hutchinson Benham, 1980), p. 90.12. Kim Philby to Monroe, October 27, 1960, file 3, box 23, Philby papers; Philby, Arabian Jubilee,
p. 54; Kim Philby, My Secret War (MacGibbon & Kee, 1968), p. 99; Almana, Arabia Unified, pp. 153 («true replica»), 151; Elizabeth Monroe, Philby of Arabia (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), pp. 158–62 («how nice»); Philby, Oil Ventures, p. 126 («traditional western dominance»); H. St. J. B. Philby, Arabian Days: An Autobiography (London: Robert Hale, 1948), pp. 282–283, 253 («I was surely»); Memo to S. Wilson, Offices of the Cabinet, August 13, 1929, CO 732/41/3 («Since he retired»), PRO; Leatherdale, Britain and Saudi Arabia, p. 194 («humbug»).