Page 5 - Records of Bahrain (7) (i)_Neat

Contents

INTERNAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS

7.01 Bahrain Government Annual Report, 1952-1953 3 I
Bahrain Agency Despatch no. 1 to B. A. B. Burrows, Political
Resident, Bahrain, 6 January 1955, summarising the Bahrain
Government Report for the period October 1952 to September
1953 [FO 1016/386]

7.02 * Disturbances and strikes, 1953-1954 13
Disturbances between Shiahs and Sunnis, 20 September 1953:
telegram, Bahrain to Foreign Office, 22 September 1953;
despatch no. 99, British Resident, Bahrain to Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, 13 October 1953, enclosing further despatch
by Political Agent, J. W. Wall of 5 October 1953 [FO
371/104263]
Sunni-Shiah conflicts, strikes and demands for constitutional
reforms, 1954: Political Resident, Bahrain to Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, despatch no. 63 of 23 June 1954; telegram
No. 417, Bahrain to FO, 30 June 1954; telegram no. 420,
Bahrain to FO, 1 July 1954; telegram no. 432, 5 July 1954;
telegram no. 442, Bahrain to FO of 10 July 1954, reporting end
of strike [FO 371/109813]
Aftermath of unrest and detailed accounts of events: Resident
to Secretary of State, despatch no. 75, 20 July 1954,
summarising riots and strikes and enclosing copy of report by
Commission of Enquiry of 10 July 1954 [FO 371/109813]
7.03 Agitation for representational government, 1954 65
Letter from ‘The Bahrain Nation’ to HBM’s Political Agent,
Bahrain, 3 July 1954, enclosing demands sent to Ruler by
same, n.d., English and Arabic [FO 1016/333]) Agency to
Resident, despatch no. 5 of 25 October 1954 as to public
sentiment for representational government [FO 371/109813]
Strike actions: minute by J. W. Wall of 3 October 1954 re taxi
drivers’ strike [FO 371/109945]\ petition (English translation)
from the higher executive committee to HH Shaikh Salman bin
Hamad al Khalifah, 28 October 1954; telegram, Bahrain to
FO, 17 November 1954 [FO 371/109813]
Role of HMG: Bahrain to Ruler, 1 December 1954, reply from
Ruler (translation), 11 December 1954 [FO 371/11458]\