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something in this direction. Simultaneously we should try
to encourage the Company to institute generous concessions
in the way of leave, Provident Fund and improved living

conditions, which though far beyond anything that Bahrain
has experienced in the past should serve to improve the
standard of living, and in a measure to ensure that large
sections of the people realise that they benefit directly
from the increased prosperity resulting from the discovery

of oil here.
5. In regard to the Bahrain Government representative
with the Company, I am seeing His Highness on Monday and
hope that the matter will be f inally settled then. It is
intended also to call together a number of representative
persons to whom a general ecplanation can be given of the

Company's treatment of its Bahraini employees, in a further
effort to dissipate ignorance and misunderstanding.

Yours sincerely,