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opend th?w over boforo, oo the effooto of our penetration may !
not appear ua unpalatable no wo think.
24. I tnko it that Government’s fear Smkx. our notion in Buh-

roin will have unfavourable reporauooiono on omallor Arab ruloro
io dirooted at the 'fruoial Coaot and Qatar. Both of thaoo un­
doubtedly liayo loanlngo ( apart from religious rcaono ) towards
Bin Saud for hlo agon to aro with them tho whole time, whoareas
thoir only oxporionoa of uo io oonfined to occasional monaoing
appoaranoeu oonnoctod with the arma traffic or olavory or faoi-
litioo for aircraft • If wo wioh to have any theoe
people, whooo mental proooeooo aro little removed fromAa tribeo-

znan of the dayo of Abraham, wo muot bo able to of for them some­
thing in return for their friendship other than demands or
threats.
25. It is a matter of oommon knowledge that sinoo tho loss
of tho * Lawronac * tho Politioal Deportment hno been immobiliaod
in the Gulf, and the Truoiul Coast has been run largely by a ser-
loo of oloop oomraandoro, or rather their interpreters. On nly
rooent visit to Abu Dhabi I found that no one there knew the name
of a oinglo Politioal Offioer exoept Sir Poroy Cox, for whom

they appeared to have the greatest veneration. Tho brother of
the Shaikh of Dobai oaid to mo whon he was hero u Ya ballus,
trade
CokkuB was our father* " We cannot Kxxxyxjut indefinitely on Sir
Peroy*o reputation, and I only quote thio to prove what I have ;
alwayo understood, that Arabs, though hostile to foreign penetra-;
tion, are susceptible to. personal friendships with British offi­
cers, oven against their better Judgment* It io by this moans,
and by a more constant contact by properly qualifiod people,
that we shall rocovor loot ground on tho Truoial Coaot, and not
by throwing overboard officials in Bahrein Just as oYoryone is

convinoed the reign of Saturn .to about to roturn.
In thio connection , if Major Trevor oould say in ICI2 that " It’
is to be regrotted in oorae wuye that the pfigoocupations of tho

Political Agent in Bahrein and tho largoly Judicial pooltion he
holds make it difficult for him to go out of hlo way to cultl**