'File 35/86 I A 32 Muscat Commercial Treaty, 1891: revision of 1905' [‎84r] (171/480)

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August 1911.
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n & the Liu scat Treaty
b + ineVitab1 ^ a t9di0 - ta ai to get things into ahapa,
ut it has to be done now as the Secretary of otate i „
) j u i otcite is pressing
. and you Mil realise that government cannot be expected,
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utter I think you must have recorded without looking
at the Arabic of the existing treaty on which the Suite's
wording was based, and you have con.e.uently been beset in see
oases with unneceaaary doubts aa to the .oti.es underlying his
amendments.
My experience of .is Highness and ihdeed of hoc genus oane,
and yours too 1 expect, is that the .ore-cut and dried the fom
m which they see things the easier they are to deal with. You
doubtless have an Arabic copy of the existing treaty - or, if not
can borrow hie hlghness's, and if you put up article by article '
to him in the form I auggeat, I do not see how he can well re
fuse to do the neceaaary. It was never my intention to suggest
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\ Major S.G.ivnox, G.I.E.,
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. ,
Muscat.