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Confidential
Df)/PCN.5/G939 7th January, 1950.

Dear

I enclose herewith a copy of a letter I have this afternoon
rocoivod fro:n Belgrove.
The postponement of the embargo is most unsatisfactory in os
much as 1UH. confirms that ho still intends that this Company will be
embarrassed in order to force a solution of the Zubara affair which,
as you know, was a major point of dispute between Bahrain and Qatar
years before A.I.O.C. obtained the oil concession in Qatar. I dp not
see what I can say to H.H. should ho coll on me to discuss the matter
as Delgrave suggests in hie letter. Tho Zubara affair has nothing to
do with the Company and on evory occasion that this subject has bocn
raised by H.H. no opinions or suggestions have been given and the only
reply that has been made was to the offeot that this was a question
solely for H.M.Q. and that tho Company had no right to interest itself
in a privato dispute between the Hulors of Bahrain and Qatar.
If no solution can be made to tho present un]iappy state of affairs,
I propose to refer Hie mutter to your arbitration under clause 9 of the
lease agreement entered into by this Company with the Government of
Bahrain, but boforo doing so I would prefer to discuss this matter with
you in case thore may be other aspects which are unknown to me.
I understand from Jackson that you informed hint that all cor­
respondence on this subject should now be exchanged with the Political
and that no direct approach should bo made with the Bahrain Government.

Yours sincerely,

G. J.Pelly, Esq., O.B.E.,
The Agency,
Bahrain.

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