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with Ballnntync at the India Office, 6 Oct 1937.)
50. Roughly translated, ‘hot air’. (Ibid., PZ1624/38, Political Resident
to India Office, 3 Mar 1938).
51. The demands included a 20 per cent interest in the company, 1000
rifles, the establishment of a school, the appointment of his representative
at a salary of £500 in gold, and the right to try all foreigners in
local courts (ibid., PZ6722/37, Political Agent Bahrain to Political
Resident, 10 Sep 1937 (extract)).
52. L/P&S/12/3886, PZ4370/37, Political Resident to India Office, 4 July
1937 (telegram).
53. Ibid., PZ4578/37, Political Resident to India Office, 12 July 1937
(telegram).
54. Ibid., PZi24i/38, Political Resident to India Office, 16 Feb 1938.
55. Ibid., PZ2253/38, Officiating Political Resident to India Office, 27
Mar 1938. See also L/P&S/18, B467, ‘Sharjah Oil Concession’.
56. L/P&S/12/3836, PZ2689/38, Officiating Political Resident to India Office,
11 Apr 1938.
57. Ibid., PZ2420/38, Longrigg to India Office, 5 Apr 1938.
58. Ibid., PZ4942/38, Fowlc to Peel (India Office), 6 July 1938.
59. The question of inland exploration is discussed separately later.
60. L/P&S/12/3836, PZ217/39, Political Agent Bahrain to Political Resident,
13 Dee 1938.
61. Ibid., PZ8362/38, enclosed in Levvisohn (Petroleum Concessions) to
India Office, 19 Dee 1938.
62. Ibid., Ext. 4844/46, encloscd^in Longrigg to India Office, 16 July
>945-
63. L/P&S/12/3901, PZ6232/38, India Office to Longrigg, 28 Sep 1938
(draft).
64. Reported by Ballantyne to Gibson on a visit to the India Office.
L/P&S/12/3836, PZ3881/38, note by Gibson, 1 June 1938.
65. Ibid., PZ1009/38, meeting recorded in a note by A. Simon, India
Office, 1 Feb 1938.
66. Ibid., PZ1237/38, Political Resident to India Office, 15 Feb 1938.
67. Ibid.
68. For a reference to Basil Lermitte as a ‘sort of Lawrence of Arabia
of the Trucial Coast’, sec Richard H. Sanger, The Arabian Peninsula
(Ithaca, NY, 1954) pp. 148-50.
69. ‘Abd al-Razzaq was in many ways different from his predecessor,
who had been the third member of his family to be the Residency
Agent at Sharjah. ‘Abd al-Razzaq was educated in India, where he
took a degree in law. He then entered the Indian Civil Service,
and in 1922 he was munshi of the Political Resident in Bushire. He
was a rich man, and ‘invariably took the side of the poor man
and fought strenuously against the tyranny of the shaikhs and the
attempts of the rich merchants to victimise the peasantry’ (Raymond
O’Shea, Sand Kings oj Oman (London, 1947, p. 71).
70. L/P&S/12/4099,'PZ2456/38, Political Resident to Political Agent Bahrain,
4 Mar 1938.
71. L/P&S/12/3767, PZ3545/38, ‘Bahrain Intelligence Summary’, no. 8
of 1938, 16-30 Apr 1938.