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administration,
17 We shall he involved in a greater degree
of diroot participation in the administration,
through the Judicial Adviser and the British police

pffioors, than would otherwise bo necessary or
perhaps desirable. It'is not here, as it is in
Kuwait, an object of our policy to increase the
British element in the local Government since in
normal oircumstancos the Government is itself

usually amenable to our influence, But in the
present case there is no alternative method of
reassuring the people of Bahrain that impartial
justice will in future be done and that the police
will be in a better position to maintain order
without the unwarranted use of fire-arms. As a
corollary to these steps, and in order to show that

we are not imposing moro direct rule on Bahrain for
its own sake, we shall have to take seriously in
hand the training of Bahrainis for judicial and
police posts, and it will be one of the first tasks
of the Judicial Adviser and the Assistant Commandant
of Police to prepare schemes for this purpose.
18. The intensification of Shia - Sunni

feeling during the past year must probably be
attributed in part at least to the general malalso of
the Middle East, whose influence percolates oven here
through the Egyptian press and the various Arab radio
broadcasts. It will not therefore automatically be
appeased by any measures of reform which the Bahrain
/Government

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