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CONFIDENTIAL

Bahrain telegram No, 716 to Foreign Offloo
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4, It' would bo unwise to be over optlmlatlo na yet,
because, while I corridor the Ruler's deololon neceasary and at
thlo juncture wiso, application of it has many difficulties. Both
British and Arab heads may have to face, e.g, present head of the
Medical Department whom I consider misfit, and conflict will arise
with adviser ovor expenditure. There will be the difficulty of
resisting the desire to attack individuals rather than improve the
administrative machine. These are, however, problems which either
already exist or would have come up in one fona or another anyhow.
The great point is that the Ruler has reaohed this decision without
our pushing him along which oan, when neoesaary, be explained to
other Rulers in the Gulf;/ More ovor, by agreeing [grp, undeo.] to
elect the committees the demand for legislative Council has been
aide-tracked, at least for some little time.
Foreign Office pass B,M,K,0. as my telegram ho, 60.
[Repeated to B,M,E,0.].

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