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Notes to Chapter Nine
evacuate; only some very hastily selected documents could be trans-
ported to the British Embassy in Amman.
132 It comprised a total distance of 125 kilometres (75 kilometres from
Khaur Kalba to Dibah and 50 kilometres through the mountains from
Fujairah via Masafi and Sfji to Daid).
133 Appendix to Newsletter of the Trucial States Council, 1 September to 15
September 1970. p. 4.
134 The initiative for building a trade school in Dubai in addition to the one
which had been in existence in Sharjah since 1958 came from the Ruler
of Dubai. He provided £17,500 for it; a contribution of £14,000 was
received from the British Government and a further sum of £4,500 was
granted by the Ruler for housing teachers. The school was the result of
much enthusiastic effort on all sides, and part of the carpentry and other
work was carried out by students of the Sharjah Trade School; see
Trucial States Council Report 1969, p. 7.
135 For details regarding scholarships and levels of training received
abroad see Trucial States Council Report, 1969, p. 10.
136 This does not mean that there were not also some people who pleaded
for spending the available funds on institution building and training of
cadres rather than on immediately visible social services. The Five Year
Plan of 1955 demonstrated this division.

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1 See the summary of the White Paper in Keesing’s, vol. XVI (1967-8), p.
21954-9 and 22256-61; quotation from p. 21956.
2 See Harold Wilson, The Labour Government 1964-70, A Personal
Record, 2nd edn, 1974, pp. 482ff.
3 Wilson, pp. 502 and 507f.
4 Keesing’s, vol. XVI (1967-8), p. 22490.
5 See for text and interpretation of the agreement, Albaharna, Husain M.,
The Arabian Gulf Slates. Their Legal and Political Status and Their
International Problems, 2nd revised edn, Beirut, 1975, pp. 40ff and pp.
330f. In July 1816 the British Political Resident in Bushire concluded the
first draft treaty of friendship with the Shaikhs of Bahrain.
6 The United Kingdom was bound by treaties dating back to 1861 to be
responsible for Bahrain’s defence and external affairs.
7 The UN Secretary-General, U Thant, announced on 28 March 1970 that
he had agreed “to exercise his good offices in a matter concerning the
status of Bahrain at the request of the Government of Persia, concurred
by the Government of the United Kingdom”, Keesing’s, vol. XVI
(1967-8), p. 23998 A.

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