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Lebanon for smuggling dope while wn un official mission.
Tlio Executive Score tury of th*.« Chamber of Commerce, un Iraqi
oxilo called Izz-ud-din AJ. Rui:., seems sometimes to be in league
/1th the two, ana somewhexe behind all lurk a the Eminence Grlso
of the Kunoo family*

7. The shortcomings o un administration, however, urc x*aroly
publicised us grievance a in the Arab •.oriel. Such agitation ao
there is ixi Bahrain therefore points its finger at the Ruling
:, «r.iily, at British Imperialism, and •J.U-’GO1 a imagined iniquities,
an usual* /it the beginning of the yoer subversive uain.ihlota * •• i
wr.ll slogans from two or three different cl under, tine groups were
still appearing. One of thcoc groups, Communists with a Persian

background, wau broken up by the police in Miy; tlie.- deported
some of the culprits, un<l own L.need the- tv.'o chief offondere tc
u. term of jail, The Nasoorite 'pa'•hlet-.i, after a summer
intermission, began again with the return of the ISgy.ytian
schoolmastors from their holidays. It was hard to gauge the
extent of discontent, or belief in all those grievances, in the
'.Vbucncc of any loader on tlie island.
d. Pamphlets appear i»ig in March demanded the release of the
three Bahraini prisoncro of St. Helena. There wove hoi.ever no
Vs-.pcrcussions, an..- little interest shorn locally when II Privy
Council rejected the up peal of Abdul Rahman ai B. kir against th'
rejection of his writ for lube,as corpus, This is riot to say
however that the curly release, or alternatively, the transfer of
the thicc to a Bahruini prison, might not revive thoii’ trouble-
making capaci ties. Those arc the ul terriv.tivcs in fact which
Her Kujcoty'o Political Resident was instructed to lay before
Iiin Highness when ho revealed to the Ruler on December 113
Her Majesty's Government'a intention not to prolong their custody
on British soil, much more. Despite recommendations to commute
their contonce His Highness has asked for the prisoners to be

rctuThad to his country.
v. About midoummor the Ruler revived his old Zuburc grievance,
und puid u special call on the Political Resident for this purpose.
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