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41. Ibid.
42. Ibid., PZ3902/36, India Office to Political Resident (draft telegram,
sent on 19 June 1936).
43. Ibid., PZ4385/3G, Political Resident to India Office, 22 June 1936
(telegram), first of two parts.
44. Ibid., second of two parts.
45. Ibid. Signed by Hickinhotham and Sa‘id bin Hamad. Enclosed in
PZ7109/36, Officiating Political Resident to India Office, 21 Sep 1936.
The agreement was to last twelve years.
46. Enclosed ibid., PZ7109/36.
47. Fowlc could see ‘no reason we should do something for nothing for
the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi' (L/P&S/12/3835, PZ5260/34, Political Resi­
dent to Political Agent Bahrain, 9 Aug 1934).
48. L/P&S/12/1963, PZ7109/36, Officiating Political Resident to India Office,
21 Sep 1936.
49. Copy available in L/P&S/12/1990, PZ1471/35. Enclosed in Political
Agent Bahrain to Political Resident, 17 Feb 1935.
50. L/P&S/12/3767, PZ3612/35, ‘Bahrain Intelligence Summary’, no. 9
of 1935, 1—15 May '935-
51. Ibid.
52. L/P&S/12/1990, PZ3525/35, Political Resident to India Office, 15 May
>935-
53. Ibid., PZ4076/35, Political Resident to India Office, 12 June 1935
(telegram), first of two parts.
54. Ibid., second of two parts.
55. Ibid., PZ4405/35, Political Resident to India Office, 26 June 1935
(telegram).
56. L/P&S/12/1978, PZ5866/36, Political Resident to India Office, 13 Aug
1936 (telegram).
57. Ibid., PZ3181/37, Political Resident to India Office, 2 May 1937.
58. Ibid., PZ3752/37, Political Resident to India Office, 8 June 1937 (tele­
gram).
59. Ibid., PZ5576/36, enclosed in Political Resident to India Office, 5
Aug 1937.
60. See below, Ch. 10.
61. L/P&S/12/1978, PZ4168/38, Political Resident to India Office, 10 June
1938. The agreement was to take effect on 22 July 1938.
62. L/P&S/12/3747, PZ410/39, Political Resident to Political Agent Bahrain,
5 Jan 1939.
CHAPTER 7
1. ‘We arc not going to throw this century of costly and triumphant
enterprise; we shall not wipe out the most unselfish page in history’
(extract from Lord Curzon’s speech at the 1903 Sharjah durbar).
2. A comprehensive account of the early history of oil in Saudi Arabia,
from the early, abortive efforts to secure concessions (in the 1920s)
to the signing of the concession with the Standard Oil Company
of California in 1933, is given in H. St J. B. Philbv, Arabian Oil
Ventures (Washington DC, 1964). The 1933 concession not only renewed
interest in the hinterland of the Trucial shaykhdoms (as discussed