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& lately they have been getting rather swollen headed and thin they do not have sufficient say in the
Government. They are about 2/3 of the population but they are poor and the big merchants are arabs not
Baharna, the Baharna are Shia & the arabs are Sunni. Drove to Rafaa hill in the evening. Got several reports
in the evening about the Baharna business, there are possibilities of this being rather a sticky affair. Four
men in Manama are the leaders and they have stirred up all the people into demanding all sorts of things
which they really don't understand or want. Two of the four men are notorious agitators, the other two are
genuine but rather misguided. Bridge at Davies in the evening, before going round I went over to see Loch
for a few minutes.

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