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announoo tho proposed rofonno at oaao offloial aooomnjy
a twill oh X should bo proaont, and that I ohould announoo
tliat tlio reforms woro Tory ©xoollont and that Government
approvod and that as long as tho ahangoa woro lntroduood
Justly, and tho reforms oarrlod out oquitably^ Government
would support tho Shollih*
Thlo propoaal was put before tho aovemraont of India
and tho tologram No#549-3 datod 2nd May 1082 is tholr
reply*

Thlo did not carry tho quootlon much further boenuoo
In oirouiriBtanooa liko tho00 plough moral support. would
in all human probability bo aufflolont, ono ooifLd not
guarantor that somo foroo or show of foroo, might at any
timo boi'fOr.10 noooascvry#
Howovor by tho tlrao tho oovommont of India roply wao
rooolvod tho Shaikhs zeal for roforas, ao otatod In my
lottor
llo«4fl6^2 datod 85th Juno 1982 had oomowaht
abated, and now linvlng hoard that Din Baud had nado a ono
promiaoa to tho DawaslB tho Bhoikho aro too norvouo to do

anything of tholr own volition#
Ao rogardo tho DawaoiB, vhon Bin 3aud oano to Jlaosa
tho Uholkli of Qatar wont to 000 him and loto of other
pooplo from tho Truoi’al poaat and other plaoos* I bolievo
ho nado them all prison ora, and it lo,I think, roally
tho pullllanlnlty of tho Shoikh which prevonte him starting
roformo rathor than any actual ohanoe of Bin Baud intorferij

Ao you know tho Bahrain Bholkho woro always rathor afraid
of tho Dawaoir whon thoro waa no quostion of Bin Balid
baoking thorn*
I will lot youijbcnow if I hoar anything dofinAta about
Dawaslr relations with Bin Baud,and lot you know how matten
progroos*
I luivo tho honour to bo,
Bir,
Your moat obodiont oorvant,

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Political Hooidont in tho Poraian oulf*