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*i).O.IIo*C/‘101. 89 th February 10*1*1.

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Please rol'itv to my printed loiter i!o.C/..-v'lj dated the
28th February 10vi which covered a copy of Belgrade's report
on. Viakclin' s work.
2. Delftruve neons rather to be damning by fiiint praise
which is in ray consideration unfair, and nay be a reaction
to '.Yakut!a* s pertinent remarks about village conditions in
his report.
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I lu-ivo soon somethin};: of the schools since I cane to
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Bahrain and of eakelin's work. lie is not having at all an

easy tlir,»-, quarrels among the school teachers, Mrs.Bolgrnvo
Jealously guarding the girls schools from what she calls
Interference and others would call advice, and Hutchings
brooding ov«r the inofficieneies of the Technical. School
like a gloomy mephistopholes. The reluctance of the Duhruin
Government to pay adequate salaries to teachers from overseas
a*. has not made his work any easier. I am taking this up with
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Belgrave within the next few days.
3. Vi&kolin is no genius nor does ho Impress the casual
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; obsorver with his organizing ability or erudition. He is a
solid unimaginative middle class person with a touch of the
missionary spirit and is doing u very good and sound piece
of work here in Bahrain.
lon'ble Sir Geoffrey Prior, X.C.I.E.,
Political Uosiuent In the Persian Gulf,
Bushire.