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6.

is that the island’s system has so for foiled to
produce a Bahraini with professional qualifications.
The report speaks against sending Bahrainis abroad
to complete their education. While the arguments
stated in the report on this point may be sound, it.

is permissible to wonder, now, whether it. may not be
the cose that the standard of secondary education in
Bahrain is not high enough to enable a young man or
woman profitably to continue higher studies .abroad
and whether Bahrain's social conscience may not have
been allowed to remain at such a low level that when
a young man returns from abroad with a western-

education he finds himself a-misfit. As regards
health, the report says that an organised health
service was then only a year old while the provision-
for medical attention for women is mentioned as
being insufficient.

9. While it is, of course, easy to criticise,
particularly after the event, I consider it
Justifiable to offer the opiniqn that Bahrain, as
evidenced by this report, has run along its little
railway line at a steady though not rapid pace for
so long that signs of possible impending trouble
tended to be overlooked or ignored. When the upset
finally came, in 1954, the strength of popular
feeling was found to be unexpectedly strong and to

include a surprisingly large number of the population,
both Sunni and Shi a. The main target for public
/criticism ..