مجموعة ٣٥/١٥ "الخليج الفارسي: البحرين؛ مسألة طوابع البريد" [و‎‎١‎٠‎٩] (٣٧٩/٢١٦)

Minute Paper.
poli t i cal Departm ent.
It, will he remembered that the Sheikh of
ago
Bahrein seme time/asked that the Indian postage stamps
at present used in his state (which is served "by an
Indian post office under the control of the Government
of India) should (as is at present the practice in
Koweit) be surcharged ' , Bahrein ,, . It was agreed that
this proposal should be approved and the Universal
Postal Union were notified of the forthcoming issue
of surcharged stamps towards the end of last year.
The Persian Government, on receiving a
circular notification from the Universal Postal Union
on the subject, protested to the minister, who
recommended unostentatious delay in their issue to
avoid an acrimonious discussion". He was apprehensive
that the Persians might regard the issue of the
stamps as an infringement of the status quo
arrangement in the Gulf.
3* totters rested at this point until the early
part of this year, when, consequent on a formal
protest by the Persian Government to the Universal
Postal Union, which was circulated by the Union to
all States members, ano in the course of which they
reiterated their claim to Bahrein, it was agreed that_
a reply on the lines approved in our letter to the
Foreign Office of 23rd February, on P.Z.777/33 flagged,
should be sent. Sir H. Hoare subsequently
recommended (P.Z.2021/33) that the stamps should be
issued without further regard for Persian
susceptibilities. This proposal was accepted by
H.lt.G. and the Government of India, and the Minister
authorised to proceed accordingly.
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