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EXTERNAL RELATIONS
7.20 Great Britain: policy 417
Commitment to defend Bahrain against external aggression:
secret, Ruler to Resident, 2 June 1951; reply from Resident
to Ruler, 9 July 1951; W. R. Hay to Secretary of State,
secret, 10 July 1951, forwarding copy of letter of 9 July 1951
to Ruler, and Ruler to Resident of 9 July 1951
acknowledging [FO 1016/49]
Letter (translation), Ruler to Rt Hon Selwyn Lloyd, Secretary
of State, protesting at British interference in Bahrain internal
government, 13 July 1956; reply from Secretary of State to
Ruler, 26 July 1956; despatch no. 97, Resident to Secretary
of State, 20 August 1956 [FO 371/120548]
British policy respecting Bahrain, 1960: Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan’s personal minute, 4 June 1960; Selwyn
Lloyd to Macmillan, 14 June 1960 [FO 371/148909]\ draft
despatch to Political Resident, Bahrain from Secretary of
State, n.d., ca. May 1960; note by Alec Douglas-Home,
14 November 1960 [FO 371/148941]

7.21 Great Britain: military defence of Bahrain 443
Extract from Chiefs of Staff 28th meeting of 26 February 1953
as to defence of Bahrain oilfields in isolation [FO 371/104404]\
Bahrain internal security scheme, Military Co-ordination
Committee (PG) (59) (1), 15 April 1959 [FO 371/140182/;
Resident to R. Beaumont, FO, 22 May 1959, regarding the
size of British military establishment in Bahrain [FO
371/140178/; Residency to Beaumont, FO, 8 August 1960,
with statistics of military forces in Bahrain [FO 371/149044]

7.22 Iranian Claims to Bahrain 461
Savingram, Tehran to FO, 21 August 1954 [FO 1016/44]\
FO to Sir Roger Stevens, British Embassy, Tehran,
19 November 1954 [FO 371/109852]\ FO minute, 17 January
1955 [FO 1016/44/; FO minute, 24 February 1956, outlining
history of claim; Roger Stevens, British Embassy, Tehran to
D. M. Riches, FO, 10 April 1956 [FO 371/120595/; British
Embassy, Tehran to FO, 22 June 1957 as to Tehran press
coverage; telegram no. 1885, FO to Bahrain, 13 November
1957, regarding Iranian intentions; telegram no. 1397,
Baghdad to FO, 15 November 1957, reporting that Iraq does
not recognise Iran’s claim [FO 371/126930]

7.23 Reported proposal for federation of Bahrain with Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait, 1958 477
Telex, Bombay, 28 February 1958(?), claiming plans for
federation of Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia [FO 371/132763]
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TERRITORIAL RELATIONS
7.24 Saudi Arabia-Bahrain seabed boundary, 1951-1958 483
Markers at Bainah Islands: C. J. Pelly, HM Political Agency
to C. D. Bclgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain,
6 January 1951; Bclgrave to Pelly, 20 January 1951; FO to
Pelly, secret, 28 August 1951 [FO 1016/71]