'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [‎56r] (126/651)

to this Governmenl to deal impartially witli .ilrafe matters,
that thsy cannot ho^e for Go varment to do. so wlw the
inttreata of the Anglo-• !; er^ian Cll Company come up against --ten
thwe of Ut© Aral?©# haae mischiof-maker® liave been
aasiB ed by firstly a considerable number of
-officer® and ^-Mesop©lamian political officers having
been imported into ihss ^nglo-Persian Oil Company, mux
B®mndly hy all the talk there hm been in tJm nglish pres®
• which haa been copiM ai^ greatly enlarged on by tlxe
.Egyptian and 'he Arabic newspaper© - about the desire of the
British 0oveniMent to sell their eharee in the i/ersian
Oil CoRi^.-any t and the controversy on thin subject and the
final decision of the present Government not to eell the
shares* But it ie alee evident from a recent petition
usade %0 Hie feeellency the Vimrt*# by . haiish lea irtgar^ing
hie supereeeeiow an haikh, that mieohief-makere - taking
-heir cue m doubt from the ignorant stuff written in a
portion of the Englieh preaa about Oil ane Iraq - have been
making that the deeire of Government (in the guise of
ihe Ajnglo--?ereian Cil Coispany) to obtain the oil at Bahrain
bas been at the be item of the removal of -haikh lea. But
#iatever the cause # • halkh Jlamaii haa made up hie miim not to
give any conceesion to the Anglo-Peraiaa Oil ^omu&ny, unleee
he is forced to do eo, and I do not think he will cliange it
for some tee •
-hile at Bahrain 1 mde eome enquiriee about
iatar # and found that the hai ^ch of thut place nae very keen
(on financial grounds) to give a eoneeeeien # on not to the
/unglo- ersian Oil Compimy for similar reason® to those
actuating Shaikh Major Holme&s told me that he
had reoeived several overtures froia haikh Abdulla with a
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