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Qotor Jurisdiction. We may well have to insist that he

does so in the future, hut the position I anticipate will
be too critical in the first stage of this experiment to
end the dispute,for us to do this now. You should point
out that it is not Intended to traverse the provisions of
the Qatar Order in Council, but that in such a critical
matter it is better to refer disputes to us for political
rather than Judicial settlement.
3. I hope to get further details from Bahrain regarding
the people the Shaikh wishes to send to the Zubarah area,
and after getting a favourable reply from your Shaikh then

to give the green light to the people here, I would then
ask you to visit the area when the first hunch of Bahrain
bodies put foot on the hallowed shore, You may think it
udvlsable to bring Cochrane with you.

t/Vu'

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