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Effect of Zubara/i dispute on relations, 1949 427

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I saw the Shaikh of Bahrain yesterday

and showed him the letter dated the 15th of
February, 1950, from the Shaikh of Qatar.
As I expected, he objected to (1) the leaving
of the two watchmen in the fort and (2) the

condition made hat "none of the members of the
few tribes who migrated from Qatar in an un­
go seemly manner shall infiltrate" amongst the
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people to be sent from Bahrain to the Zubarah
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area.
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him to leave the fort empty, He did not strange-

ly enough ask me to write to the Shaikh regarding
the condition about the "non-infiltration" of
Qatar tribes who had migrated from Qatar etc.
Actually he talked about this condition as if

it meant that no tribesmen actually residing
in Qatar now should mix with his people going
from Bahrain to Zubarah. What the Arabic
does mean is as stated in the translation, i.e.