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iS/6d during the recent disturbances and buildlngu wero
systematically oot on fire,

Anonymouo not loon find lottcro have boon circulated
during rocont monthn oignod "Commandos". An uxam.ilc «.,f
thcoo lettero ic the one received by Iluj llnooan Buljiq
Exhibit . .. ••« •• f • Similar lettero wore sent to many
persons who co-oporotod with the Government by continuing
to attend coiiinittooo at a time when they were being
throatonod by tho Committor) of Nntional Union Comui ttoo in
their public noticoo, Thooo noticou doccribcd no "Ti«ul tor3"
all poroono y/ho dupportod the Government. Reforein:os to
"Traitors" aro in tho Committoo' u noticoo li0e, 59 of Jnno IBth,
1956, 61 of July 9 th, 1956, 66 of July 31 Qt, 1956 and olhero.
This doounont wno found in the poGoosslon of ono of the
loading momboro of tho "Committoc of National Union", I to
contonto wore known to Abdur All Aliwat and he had no lawful
oxcuoo fop haying it in hip popocaoion. It was found uhortly
after threatening lottoro oigned "Comnandou" .iud boon oont to
indiyidualo in Bahrain, It must be considered that Abdur Ali
Aliwat, one of tho momboro of tho Committoo of National Union
know tho conooqucnooo which would follow hio being in poGocuulon
of this document, Jt cannot bo arguod that it was a privato,
individual documonV &b it io addroosed to "Tho People of 13Qhrain",
Tho intentiono which are expreooed in the document includo
burning buildingo and mining - prouumably blowing up - foroign
buildings, Abdul Rahman BQkir in hio apcoch at Boirut which
wao reportod in tho A1 Ahad of No,
and which ho novor cpntradicted, Exhibit No,
tliraatonqd that thorp would bo burningo ajd masoacrco in Buhrain
if thp British and French landed in Ecypt. Part of thooo
throats aro contained in the rooolutioiiG roforred to in tho
document found in Abdur Ali Aliwat' a pooaeGoion,
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Tho Coiunittee, through Abdul Aziz Shomlan, Acting Secretary,
and through Abdul Rahman Bakir, while in C0iro, endeavoured to.
obtain tho oupport of a foroign powor - Egypt - in urdor to bring
about a change in tho^Govornmont of the Stato,
In a lettor from Shomlan to Colonel Anwar Saadat, a cenior
ntcraber of tho Egyptian Governmont, dutod 1,0,55, Exhibit • • • •
Bhemlan writes mentioning tho Highor Executive Co.iunittoe'c objects
oaying "in the forefront of which is tho aotting up of a Legislative
Asoojnbly to reduce tho powero of the Ruler", There is no
justification whatovor for a Committee of porson3 in Bahrain
whooo original object waa;-
aa statod in thoir first public notice No, 1 of 27.10.5h)
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not to oot up oppoaition to any party or to take action which
would affect tho authority of tho Rulor or tho intcrouto of
tho British Qovornmont which they described as a natural ally
from which Bahrain would never part, to negotiate with a foreign
power, with whom tho Government of BQhrain has no official
relations, rogarding changes wliich tho Committoe proposed to
enforce on tho intornal Government of this country,"
5. (c)

2?Vpu?Ung an to She powers of the fo5daliotic ruler".

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