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.|i. L/P&S/12/3747, P6406/29, Political Resident to Government ol India,
1 Sep 19*29.
(|j. Ibid., P2870/30, Political Resident to Government of India, 9 Apr
1930.
43. Ibid., PZ2870/30, Political Resident to Government of India, 14 Mar
1930.
44. It is interesting to note that in 1926 the Government of India proposed
that the post be reduced from a first-class to a second-class appointment.
However, in view of the responsibilities of the office, the difficulty
of the duties, and the unhealthy climate of the Gulf, it also recommended
that the Resident be given a special payment. (L/P&S/10, P5184/1913,
Viceroy to Secretary of State for India, 20 Sep 1926 (telegram).)
These proposals were dropped, and the Resident continued to hold
a first-class appointment; in 1927 the appointment of a personal assistant
to the Resident was sanctioned by India.
45. L/P&S/12/3747, minute by Laithwaitc (India Office), 11 Nov 1929.
46. Quoted ibid.
47. L/P&S/18, B419, ‘Future Policy on the Trucial Coast’ (P3840/29,
Political Resident to Government of India, 23 Apr 1929).
48. Ibid. (P6406/29, Political Resident to Government of India, 5 Sep
1929)-
49. L/P&S/12/3747, P2870/30, Political Resident to Government of India,
14 Mar 1930.
50. L/P&S/12/1965, Political Resident to Residency Agent, 11 Dee 1932.
51. Except in Kuwait, where the expenses were shared equally with the
Foreign Office.
52. L/P&S/12/3645, PZ7531/33, Political Resident to Government of India,
30 Oct 1933.
53. For an account of the life and work of one of these missionaries,
sec the autobiography of Paul W. Harrison, Doctor in Arabia (London,
>943).
54. This fact particularly shocked Amccn Rihani when he visited the Coast.
See Amccn Rihani, Around the Coasts of Arabia (London, 1930) p.
I 262.
55. Olaf Caroe, Wells of Power (London, 1951) p. 110. Sir Olaf Caroe
was an Officer of the Indian Political Service and in 1937 he was
Officiating Political Resident in Bushire. He later became Secretary
of the External Affairs Department and Governor of the North-West
Frontier Province in India.
56. L/P&S/12/3867, PZ833/36, Political Agent Bahrain to Political Resident,.
21 Feb 1935.
57. Donald Hawley, The Trucial States (London, 1970) p. 226.
58. See J. F. Standish, ‘British Maritime Policy in the Persian Gulf’,
Middle East Studies, 111, no. 4 (1967).
59. Captain R. St P. Parry, ‘The Navy in the Persian Gulf’, Journal
of the Royal United Service Institution, lxxv (May, 1930).
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1. Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 11, p. 1933.
2. Ibid., vol. 11, p. 1547.