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by unoducatod tribooraon any more than Uorocaun troop©
could permanently hold down tho Rhino provinooo* Bahrain •
ie q largo trading centre with a lurge foreign population.
It in not part of Nujd and would novor be happy under
Wahabi rulo‘. The real Bahraini', though an Arab, lo a Shiah
not n Uunni; and tliQsi hiotory of the lolundo shown thut for
long periodo it vma oubjoot to Persia'* Thio, although not •, •
loading to any Uooira for Peruiun rule, aunt modify .the
tribal outlook'. I *
IS. I ura in favour of an indigenous Arab govomwont. /;
ntundlng on ito own feet; but you cannot without grave
risk of bloodshod — rapidly reveroo all tliut hao been done
in the paot six years.
The Dal^tanah, for tho firot time olnco the Khalifa

ouutcd tho Persians, huve liud Boourity and juotloe and have
corao to think of their righto; Aftor taeting those 'oweete
thoy will not lightly forego thorn;
13. Tho evilo of unadulterated Arab rule and the trib­
al oyotem are exemplified by tho rooont bloodstained rocord
of Umm al Qjiwaira and Abu Dhabi or, to take bigger poo pie
from hiotoryi the Bani Rashid Bulero of Hail or tho Salyide
of Oman; To* quote from on intereotlng reviow.by Ur h; IK
Thomao appearing in the HKAB FAST and INDIA of July 10i S*Bf.
70 j

"The firot aot of young Bald bin Sultan wae to
decoy hlo regent undo and to assassinate him;
Thlo ’will to powor» was applauded by tho country#
•i It was no utrango /nouns to omploy;. Incidental ly.
Quid's BuocoDoor; Thuwuini, wuu dontined to bo
murdurod by hiu own uon, Sulim, who thereupon •*• •'.
ouoooeded. to the Hultanuto; • During the pa^V.flT®
years frutrioido, a timo-honourod institution; *or-
( • .M'
the purpose, hao on three' eovoral occaeione boon
:
rooponuible x’or a change of Rhuikhehip in the *:
powerful Omuni tribes of Buni All und Bun 1XMt"• '.v.;
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