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Your minute M. 196/60 of Juno 4 about Sir ; V
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0. ;.li6dlotonva despatch (BA 101C/2) on Bahrain...
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v/o mentioned this briefly on Juno 11. Sir 0.
Middloton ic now back in thU country for
consultations, and I will bo uiecusuing hio despatch
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with him. I v/o.ild r>.Kc U go into tho mutter rather
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moro thoroughly v/i h him b( X'or-o taking it to any • •«
committee. It la not only tho Question of Bahrain
itnolf, but thoro xro important implications for..tho
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root of tho Gull* t >o. Past oxpcricnco in Bahrain
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and clsovhoro lv.s shown ho.' very difficult, it ipj in
practico to rotain tho confidence of, and influence
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over, tho Puling f uni lieu, and at the earoo timb to
increase contacts with tho reformist elements. There-
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is always tho danger that :,n trying to run with tho
luxre and hunt with houndn, ono goto tho worat of i
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