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Tho Ronldonoy,
DuohJ.ro, 30th June 19£3«

Uy dear Bray,
VoiTy w:\ny thunkc for your private letter of th©
I3tli Juno and for your kind congratulations on my handling
of tlio Bahrain tangi o. I only hopo you will bo able to

ropoat then niton Uio full toxt of all that I did nt Bahrain
and particularly r.y spooch at tho ■v.ajiios* lo boforo
At tinoe I folt that I wao calling vory noar tho wind
night bo troading on othor pooplo*o toon and porh&ps
oocaoionally going a llttlo boyond ny Instmiotiona whan.I
bogan to not forth what shaikh Uanad, Daly and I proposed
to do in Bahrain*

2* I an afraid I must agroo with you that tho offIqIaI
answer to ny tologrnn No* 482 of tho 29th Uay io Tory txn-
oatlofying, but I will prooood to consider your three
points seriatim*
Ao to (l) I can clour tho ground at onoo by* saying
that I do not oxpoct you tr> boar ono ponny of tho oost* X
roalioea at tho outuot that that would bo hopoloss in
thoso days and I saw no roaoon why India should boar .the

coat* Daly and I by a two-lino ordor to the Dirootor ot
Customs, Bahru in« havo otoppod a drain of RJ 1,000/- a day#
half of which, I* 600/-, was, oo tho logond goos, to all
intents, buriod. Just try to real too what that moanel All
this wealth cornon from tho thflux of forolgnors who have

boon oncouragod to cono thorn by tho groator aoourity
affordod to thorn by Britinh protection, and surely wo are,
f
on gonoral principle.* niono, Justified in lnsiating that*

do 3* Bray, Ktiqr«, 0*81*1 • > C.i .K.,0.!**K • >
Foreign Socrotary to tho oovoniKont of India
porolgu iukI Political Dopartment,
in tho
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