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Al'iiniles.

none of the people who had migrated from
Zubarah should return there. The reason

(I have discovered from Mr. Belgrave) for the
Shaikh's purposeful misreading of this sti­
pulation is that it now seems that none of

the people who migrated from Zubarah and whom
the Shaikh has always described as yearning
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to return there now want to go back, This ll°
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somewhat comic situation Shaikh Salman is,
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not unnaturally, not prepared to admit.
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Hence the lack of emphasis on the second s
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stipulation and concentration on the first. £

The Shaikh derided the Qatar request that
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I should confirm that the "restrictions" on
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Qatar should be removed, etc. z

23-2-50.