مجموعة ٢/٢٩(٢) "نقل المقيمية البريطانية في بوشهر إلى البحرين: اختيار الموقع وإنشاء المباني" [و‎‎١‎٧] (٨١٣/٣٥)

FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1
16th December, 1946
/^E 11504/11219/91)
I am sorry we have been so long in answering your
letter of 23rd November about taking over the
administrative and political control of relations with
the Arab States of the Persian Gulf,
2. We feel strongly that both these functions should
pass as soon as possible to the Foreign Office, and in
this letter we assume that such a decision is reached.
3* Turning from principle to practice, as you know
we are unable at present to undertake the control of
the Gulf posts and we are grateful to the India Office
for expressing willingness to assume that responsibility
for the time being. We are sure that the transitional
stage of control by the India Office will be of
advantage, not only to the officers and subordinate
staffs of the Gulf posts, but also be of value in
assuring efficiency there in future. If the people
now in the Gulf were to come immediately under direct
Foreign Office control it is possible that their claims
to compensation for premature termination of services
may be prejudiced. Some of them might not be prepared
to take that risk, and so ask for transfers elsewhere,
creating vacancies.difficult to fill. On the other
hand, if the administration is left in the hands of the
India Office, time is afforded to the staff concerned
for them to ascertain their compensation terms and
consider their future in the light of that knowledge.
Such a plan would also enable the Foreign Office to
enlarge its field of choice to include officers with
experience of the Persian Gulf now serving in India,
/who
Sir William Croft, K.B.E
India Office.
C • I * E • , C.V.O. ,