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SECRET

FROM BAHRAIN TO FORKION OFFICE

FOREIGN OFFICE SECRET AND
Cypher/OTP WHITEHALL SECRET DISTRIBUTION

Sly B, BurroYfs
No. 177 D. 6.35 a.in, March 5, 1956
March If, 1956 R. 7.15 a.m, March 5, 1956

IMMEDIATE
SECRET

Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 177 of March 4,
Repeated for information to: P.O.M.E.F, C-in-C East Indies
A.O.C. Aden

My telegram No, 172: Bahrain Internal Situation.

The High Executive Committee,

The committee issued a circular on March 3 deploring the
demonatrations on March 2 which they say might havo
"untoward consequences* which will no doubt hold back
the country's movement, (i.e, in their progress) a [gp. undeo.]
years". They "repudiated any groups which allow themselves to
adopt such disgraceful measures."

2. The Ruler called to see me on March 4 to express
his own very deep regrot for what had happened and to say
that the whole of his family, who had come to him in his
Palaoe, shared this feeling and were pressing him to take
immediate action. He developed their proposal to [gp. undec.]
against the High. Executive Committee, not on the grounds that
they could bo proved to have causedthis particular incident,
but beoause, had it not been for their activities over the past
two years, the inoident would never have happened. He ;
recited a number of ways in which they had stirred up
opposition to the Government, made collections of funds without
permission, held secret meetings, issued circulars and put
pressure on individuals to support them etc.
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