"ملف(19/191 III (C 56 المطالبة الإيرانية بالبحرين" [و‎‎١‎٧‎٧] (٣٩٦/٣٧٢)

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enjoys cara^lete imlerjendercr ^ith no Kn^llfih Influence whatever.
^rc-onrntlor nof the Brltinh in the Cm If.
These sre the real causes, in the eye the wjority of +he peo«
tile, rhtch have lee' • o the dirturher and dlmuiet in thr
Persian (fulf, the ^hf tt ul Ar«b and on + he Iraq-Persian borders,
■'"hese O'we heir origin such activities ab flwt herin# to^ether
the Brit Ph flret in •'•hr Gulf, Its movencrtr to and fro andits
arrival at Baerah; stet ioninp of en in "antry hri^de by ^he Kn-
glish in Bahrain; ^he fortification of Muscat; -^hc estebllshwent
o a centre for co^l in Bahrain itself and the recent complaint
Irao to + h® League o" Wat ions about the- er cron chraent of her
neighbour ersla and her l^clc of obx~ pcatior to the ^overnroen*
nactp an a^reeraentn.
'fhat does Ira a exBect"?
aw*
And the Iraqlp ex^c 4 -, when + he esse har b^en before the Lea
of TT a ^ i onand "ersl^ in a neuiber of it and bo+h the dirties are
bound J "o how to Itaarbltratlon an bindinp- uuon + h^nrselves that
"ti e d may be put to ^ 1b bta ^e of affairs and the "'erpifn?? v
deslPt fron + heir encroachrrrt upon +helr frontiers and the fron
tier zones and agree to contract agreexne ntp do ind^epp nseble for
setting noli-'"leal relations in order in the y adopted by the
powers in -'■heir intercourse, '"hr f?8y that they always entertain
towards their neighbours the wos + sincere sentirapntp o' friendship
a*e alwaye ke^n on strengthening what rele ""lonp of tine rhonoured
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bro+h^rhood exist there and realise that x hey will not be affected
in unv way bv this Incident as it is one of those every day diffe
rences which crop uu between brothers. The 1 ^ also say ■ f hat their '
renuest to the League of Hatiors, knocking at its door ^nd desi- *
^in^- i + <* arbitration all rji-ove their s 'ncerltv of nu^-nose and that
the^r d'■ not like to onnose its action in any war; and what +hey
^ant it that their care raay be settled with "^ersi" in such a way
as would nlease bo + h of •'"hen and ham neither narty because no-
"'"binj? is better + h !, n arbitration so lonpr as the^r are nembers of
4 he s^Tie League which w«s decisively neont for r-MtreMng in
such circunstances.