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11 Popularising radio sets: advertising for the new model of PHILCO
radio, 1937

training to Bahraini nationals. 88 Although violence was localised and
erratic, by 1956 the successful nationalist indoctrination redirected
resentment against the symbols and interests of British power and foreign
capital. Arson, the stoning of cars and attacks on government buildings
became familiar tactics on the part of bands of youngsters who disrupted
the protests and strikes organised by al-Ha’yah. As noted by a British

88
It was only in 1948 that BAPCO initiated a programme providing summer placements in
the oil company for secondary school students. Finnie, ‘Recruitment and Training of
Labor’, 138.