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guards Co protect its pipo lino a and installations and
it hug the fullest co-oporatlon from the Govorrunont in

all Its oporationu. Tho familios and the chlldron of tho
workoro, moat of wliom are omployed in tho refinery, aro
Given froo oducation and froo modicul troatmont by tho
Govorrunont and they onjoy tho bonofita and amonities and
aocial oervicog which tho Government provides, and pays

for, such as roudg which aro mudo und maintained by the
Government, wator 3uppllo3, lighting and protection and
thoy buy much of their food from tho Government at oub-
sidisod prices. Comparisons aro invidious but it should
be remomborod that in Gaudi Arabia tho* Company is compelled

to build and maintain schools, hospitals and roads bocauso
tho local govox'runont contributes nothing towards thorn,
Nogin othor States aro ti:o Governments friendly and co-
oporativo to the oil companies which work in tlioir countries.
In Bahrain the Company has unrestricted and froo uso of
natural products, sand, .'Lime, gypsum, stono suit and water,

products which olsowhoro are froquontly claimed as Gtate
or private monopolies, The Company too has tho right
freely to acquire land for its oporaCions and Clio value
of land in Bahrain has risen steeply during the last decade.
The Bahrain Government does not make demands on tho Company

for loans, it docs not ask it to pay for students studying
ubroad nor does it roquiro the Company to provide vehicles,
machinery ole. us Is done olsowhoro, Tho Government con­
siders that tho J/O-I/O urranjfomuiYt, which applies to crude
oil only, should bo supplemented by provisions to compensato

tho Government for the privd.Logcs and facilities which it
provides and which contribute to tho Company's profits
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