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Great Britain: policy 427

July 26, 19&

Greetings.
I am grateful ta Your highness. fo* ypufc Ihtlflr of
the 12th of Juliana for tho frankness With ubiqa you*,,*,,
have ©xproeood your views. I was flie^resaadlaoini.y,
that you had had: any doubt about the attitude of H«r
Majesty1 o Government toward® Ypur fllgfrneee;* Goyerament
and wish to assupo you In tho olaaro^t terms of the
groat luportanco which Her Majesty's Government attach
to their longstanding agroomonta with the Al-Khollfah,
and of their continued eupport of Tour Ilighneea whose
friendship they value highly. indeed It Is beeauoo of
thoir traditional friondshlp that Her Hajqatyfe
Government havo sought to advise Your highness about
how you might avoid tho dangora to tho poo Ition of tho
Al-Khalifah arising from oortain modern developments.
Political movomonto of tho kind now native in
Bahrain appear sooner or lator in almost all oaranunitle®.
Tho appearance of this movemont in Bahrain boars, witness
to the advances which the people of Bahrein hays ipade,
under tho guidanoe of tho Ai-Khollfob* With their wide
experience of almllar political movements elsewhere
Ilor Majesty1a Government are convinced that the boot
policy 1b to guldo tho loaders into channels of
rcaoonablouoGQ and co-oporatlon with the Oovenunont,
rather than to attempt roproaolon. Moreover Your

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Hio Highnosi)
Shaikh Oir Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifah, ,1
K.C.M.O ■K.C.I.B. '
Ruler of Bahrain
/lllghneaa'o

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