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no. R/15/3/3/2 and R/15/3/3/3 in which the role of Dr. Thon3
in Mu3cat ia diacuosed.

^Reverend W.I. Chonherlain, "A Tour In the Persian Gulf,"
in Neglected Arabia, no. 100, January-March, 1917, pp. 3-11,
and C.3.G. Mylrea'.Kuwait before Oil (unpublished manuscript
in the RCA Archives, New Brunswick), pp. 80-82..
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Protestant missionaries in Arabia differed markedly
'• from the 13th. Century Protestant missionaries in the Eastern
Mediterranean in this respect. While the latter freely availed
themselves of military and diplomatic pressure from home when
i needed to further their cause in the field, the Arabian Mission,
from the beginning, determined to stand or fall on its own
merits and did not try to influence TJ.S. .foreign policy. Al­
though British and American warships were occasionally used
in the Giilf to deliver supplies or mail, this was the extent
of their contribution. In the Mediterranean, on the other
hand, the United States maintained a six-ship squadron of
frigates in the early 19th„ Century, based at Port Mahon on
Minorca, for the express purpose of supporting missionaries,
protecting U.S. trading interests and encouraging diplomatic
exchanges. See James A. Pield, on. cit., pp. 176-215, and
Joseph 1. Grabill, Protestant Diplomacy and the Near East.
Missionary Influence on American Policy. 1810-1927. (Minnie -
apolis, 1971)•

•^Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Barrett, K.C.B., Comman­
der of the British Expeditionary Eorce, reportedly gave 40,000
rupees to the Lansing Memorial Hospital at Basrah in 1916,
in gratitude for medical services rendered to the British
# troops. Chamberlain, lac.cit.. p. 11.

^Mrs. C. Stanley G. My lrea, "A Visit to Basrah," in
Neglected Arabia, no. 107, October-Deceraber, 1918, pp. 9-12,

37s.j. Thoms, "The Hospital at Bahrein," in Neglected
Arabia, no. 44, October-December, 1902, pp. 12-16.

^%la3on and Barny, op. cit f pp. 147-148.

39ibid PP, 153-154.
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4°Ibid pp. 194-195. .. •
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41Paul W. Harrison, "The Doctor’s Greatest Opportunity,"
in Neglected Arabia, no. 99, October-December, 1916, p. 12. .

cit., p. 55 and Eleanor Calverley, "A
42Mylrea,op. cit
Letter from Kuwait, V“Tn Neglected Arabia, no. 102, July-
September, 1917, p.-13.

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4'’Mason and Barny, op. cit •» Chapter IX.

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