"ملف ١/أ/٥ III الإدارة. شؤون قطر." [و‎‎١‎٨‎٠] (٤٤٠/٣٦٤)

and which would satii'y Your Honour -- an arrangement by which the
quota would be divided fairly but the despatch of a representative
for it would mean to the world that there is some doubt of my
one which impures my prestige and. it is this which has led me to
oppose you in this premature matter. Your comparison of Persia,
Iraq and dgypt is not applicable to us because the position there
is very different from ours. The position in Kuwait, Bahrain and
Kuscat is also ve y different from ours. And ej£g» were my position
the same as theirs then the matter would levzt be as you describe it.
But Your Honour knows that it is not so and if a representative
was sent to me in the last few days of the war it would imply
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that I have been remiss and misappropriated the quota. This is the
reason and cause of my opposition. ‘ I have already explained to Your
Honour the postition from this aspect. I still believe that Your
Honour will appreciate my position rightly and excuse me for keeping
an eye on my position and guarding my honesty as a true friend of
the British Government and of Your Honour especially. Your Honour
asked me when I told you about the non-arrival of the quota sugar
and tea for several months how was Abdulla Darwish was able to
export 192 bags of tea. I am aware that Your Honour Is not Inf or me <
of the true facts of the case because the things referred to did
not belong to Qatar and that the Kuwaiti merchants imported in a
Kuwait ship whose nakhuda was Ghuloom Husain in the lirst half of
Muharram 1364. There .was no manifest with the goods to show the
'destination and the owner 'deposited them in the harbour godowns in
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charge of Abdulla Darwish. He then received instructions irom one
owner to export it in the boom "Motairan" whose nakhuda was
to this end in the last stages of the present condition which call
honesty. And Your Honour knows that I prefer any. arrangement to
Mohammed bin Jasim Bushmais so its import to Qatar and expoit ix