مجموعة ٣٠/ ٣٣ "الخليج الفارسي، الساحل المتصالح. سياسة حكومة بريطانيا. قائمة شيوخ الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎٢‎٥‎٣] (٨١٨/٥٠٥)

Arabs of an extremely primitive type and but little removed
from savages, ^hey have already heard of the projected air
route and during the recent difficulties at Has-el-Khaima I
was given to understand by the leading inhabitants of that
place that while they had no objection to visits by military
aircraft they would oppose by every means in their power the
establishment of a civil air route, and from their own point
of view, which comprises the maintenance of their own
independence, they would be right. A military air route
requires comparatively few facilities and these Arabs knowx
it. A civil air route on the other bend requires a muc’
elaborate ground organisation. It involves rest-houses
mechanics, hangers, etc., and these in turn involve, t
the circumstances at present prevailing, guards for prou
7. Our policy has hitherto been, except in such
places as Bahrain and Uusoat, to refrain from all *
interference in the internal affairs of the Trucial Shaikl
and others along the Arab littoral provided they maintaihv
the maritime truce* The organization of a military air
1 ?cute would not involve, in my opinion, an' serious ^
departure from this policy, in fact once these Arabs were
satisfied that the military air route was not the forerunner
of the civil air route I thirik they would place little
difficulties in its way. A regular civil air route however
would, I think, involve a much largermaamire of interference
and a definite departure from the policy up to the present.
If we establish this route ourselves it Wtould, 1 imarina,
be difficult to de*$r permission to the French, ftitch and
other oompanies that wish to fly along it, and their
intrusion into this sphere, where foreigners have not
hitherto