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Dated.the 25th February 1940
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Will you please refer to the correspondence forwarded
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with India Office Printed letter No. P.Z.822/1940 dated the
14th February 1940 in regard to the British Councilfs grant
towards the pay of Mr, Adrian Vallance ?
S* Although the Council ^feel confident that we may rely
upon the money being available in future years" it is a
little disconcerting at this stage to find that actual
sanction exists only for a single payment of £ 500/-. It is
true that previous correspondence from the India Office and
the Council does not in so many words promise a recurring
grant, but references to the provision of "a sum of £ 500/-
in a full year certainly do not indicate that a single
grant was contemplated. The terms of your telegram No. T/385
dated the 21st October 1939 made it sufficiently evident
that our object was to obtain Vallance for Bahrain for a
period of years and that the Bahrain Government proposed to
engage him on the understanding that the British Council
would provide a subsidy of £ 500/- per annum . Surely that
was the time to warn us that we had misunderstood the situa
tion and that the Council could only promise us a single
grant. As it is the Bahrain Government have entered into
a contract with Mr. Vallance for a period of five years
and may claim that in doing so they have been grievously
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misled by us. Of course the contract is terminable on short
notice but that does not really make our position any the
more comfortable. In view of the optimistic forecast in
The
Hontble Lieut-Colonel
C. G. Prior, C.I.E.,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
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