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confidential.
The Reoldenoy,
Buahlre, the 17th November, 1938,

p. 0. No* 597»^S.
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Oould you pleaao refer to my telegram No.308 of the
16th November on the aubjeot of Bahrain Agitation,
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2. I agree that there are oome argumento in favour 61 f the
notice ouggeated in paragraph 6 of your letter No.c/691-1.b/5,
dated tho 12th November 1938, but from the point of view of
public opinion thia notioo would have undoubtedly been oonotrued

&3 a sign that we were coming out definitely on tho aide of tho
Shaikh and againot tho popular party. If thiu lrapreooion wore
to become prevalent in public opinion then t
(a) any conoeaaion whioh the popular party got now or later
from the Bahrain Government would be rogarded aa a win not only
i over tho Bahrain Government but over uo, and

(b) we should be regarded aa enemies by the popular party
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instead of ae friendo to whom thoy could turn for advice, while
it lo from being regarded aa frlendu that wo can beBt keep them
' undor control. Thia ia in fact the satisfactory result, at all

eVents at present, of the policy I have adopted in more or lesB
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i similar ciroumatanoes in Kuwait, and whioh I hope will have a
similar result in Bahrain.

' 3.
Bahrain Government representative with Bahrain Petroleum
Company. Thia wao dealt with in paragraph 2 of my telegram

Woted above.

4. /
Nightman
Esquire, I.C.S •»
Political Agent,
Bahrain.