'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [‎184r] (382/651)

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Your telegram No 47. -
i^ou v/ill remember that I had "been persuading Shaik
Kamad^to visit Muhammareh-& I hoped to succeed.I think
it might influence him & should make him feel under some
sort of obligation,, I advised Mackie to repeat the in
vitation without appearing too obviously pressing & to
leave it to me to follow it up« He agreed that this was
the best course^ However^since he has left here I learn
that he fired in a long draft concession^or something of
the kind f to Shaik Hamad while out at Sukhair. Mackie
kept me entirely in the dark as regards this move & made
absoHlutely no mention of it.I had 4 thereforen no opportun
-ity to express an opinion. I think personally that it
was a mistake,inasmuch as he had only a few days before -
had a mild refusal from Hamad^who was otherwise cordial
to him.Even Hamad^is not so obtuse as to fail to see
an invitaion proffered
through with one hand,while a
draft concession is handed him with the other. The
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business part should obviously^been produced after an
impression had been made by the Muhammerah visit.
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I now that Hamad is quite off going there & is obviously
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evasive.
From what I know of Hamad,! very much doubt
the
story he told Mackie( which he has often dished upxi for
me too) about his reverence for his father's wishes ^ has
much to do with his own refusal-though it serves him as a
convenient excuse.
Perhaps if Muscat came to teamis it might influence
him to some extent,but unfortunately they think much more
of Bin Saud whose star is in the ascendant-