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12. Ibid.
*3- PG22, 31 Oct 1928. Available in L/P&S/10, P4535/1928(8).
14. L/P&S/18, B419, ‘Future Policy on the Trucial Coast’ (P3840/29,
Political Resident to Government of India, 23 Apr 1929).
13. L/P&S/12/3747, P/1724/39, Political Agent Bahrain to*Political Resident,
5 Feb 1939. Enclosed in Political Resident to Government of India,
21 Feb 1939.
iG. Busch, Britain and the Persian GulJ\ 1894-1914, P- 386.
17. The Political Agency in Muscat was initially established in 1800.
18. From 1900 to 1904, an Assistant Political Agent was posted to Bahrain.
In 190,1 the position became that of Political Agent.
19. 'Flic first Political Agent to Kuwait was sent in 1904.
20. For details of the setting up of the Committee, see B. C. Busch,
Britain, India and the Arabs, 1914-1921 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.,
1971) PP- -156-63.
21. CAB 23/24, 7(21)2, 14 Feb 1921.
22. Established in 1902, the GID was until 1939 the principal advisory
and consultative body on all matters concerned with home and overseas
defence.
23. CID no. 174-D, PG (sub) 18.
24. This recommendation was approved by the Cabinet on 30 July 1930
(CAB 23/24, 46(30)8, 30 July 1930).
25. O11 these points, the Secretary of State for India reported, ‘The appoint­
ment is already sufficiently attractive from the aspect of prestige and
remuneration . . . and [I doubt] whether it is necessary to associate
the Imperial Government, who have already in practice an opportunity
of expressing their views before an Officer is posted to Bushirc, more
closely with the appointments’ (ibid.).
26. CAB 23/76, 48(33)6, 26 July 1933.
27. Texts available in Aitchison, A Collection of Treaties, vol. xi, pp. 256-7.
28. Ibid, vol. xi, 238.
29. For details of the events leading to this, see Busch, Britain and the
Persian Gulf, 1894-1914, pp. 94-113.
30. Sec Aitchison, A Collection of Treaties, vol. xi, p. 262, for text.
31. Ibid., vol. xi, pp. 262-3.
32. Ibid., vol. xi, p. 263.
33. Ibid., vol. xi, pp. 265-6.
34. Ibid., vol. xi, 258-61.
35. Ibid., vol. xi, p. 257.
36. Ibid., vol. XI p. 263.
I 37. Ibid., vol. xi, pp. 264-5.
38. Ibid., vol. xi, p. 239.
39. ‘Let it not be hidden from you that we agree, if oil is expected
to be found in our territory, not to grant any concession in this
connection to any one except to the person appointed by the High
British Government’ (Undertaking by the ruler of Dubai, signed on
2 May 1922, ibid., vol. xi, 261).
For a description of the varied duties ol the Political Resident, see
40.
the account given by a former Resident, Sir Rupert Hay, The Persian
Gulf States (Washington DC, 1959) pp. >9 -7-

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