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14* The Advisor* as you know, has expressed the view
that the present agitation Is no more serious than any that
huo occurred in the past, that the young Bhl'io aro keeping
largQly aloof and that the loaders are people of much loos
repute than those who came to the fore in Shaikh Baa's time.
This is true ao far as I oan ascertain; but at the same
tine 1 think we must recognize that those wind-bag
journalists, with all their cliches, are demanding things
that a groat many of the more sober and responsible
citizens of Bahrain consider to be noooesaryi noono outside
the A1 Khalifah will publicly defend old-fashionod
absolutism, and so, for the time being, the 'national
leuders' are left with a monopoly of democratic prinoiplos*
I have the honour to be,
flir.
Your Excellency's obedient servant,

(Jfv/, Wall)

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