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Mlnoreased educational facilities in reoent years have

produced a olaae of young men with a veneer of oduoatlon
who respond readily to press propaganda, listen to broad-
oaata and develop political feelings, They believe thorn-
selveo to be progroooivo and doupioo their illiterate

parente who, oinoe the youtho are earning quite good
wages, have lost all influenoo over them, They are
nationalistic, especially oinoe they see foreigners
earning more monoy than they themselves do. They know

that they are better educated than the ruling family
and are inclined therefore to despise them. They come
mainly from Manamah and Muharraq, and moat of them work

with the Oil Company, in Government offices and with
firms in Manamah**
This 1b precisely the class which has given so much trouble
in India, Egypt and elsewhere* It is not a olaoe which by
any means io bad in itself! it is formed by the force of

olrcumotanceo.
(c) The administration of Bahrain has beoomo increasingly
oanplioated, and it is very difficult for the Shaikh to carry

on the simple patriarohal Justioe of the old days. I am sure
that he, the Shaikh, and the members of the family, as well as
Belgrave himself, give a sympathetic hearing to any grievances
which are brought to them. It is not a case, however, so much

of remedying individual grievances as of having sane duly
constituted body, through wfyioh oan be ventilated general
grievances, whether real or imaglnery, a sort of Bafety valve
in faot. At present no suoh valve exists, and it is difficult

for those'who are discontented to oall attention to their
grievances exoept by the unconstitutional means of rowdy

/ agitation