'File 4/13 IV Zubara' [‎6r] (16/412)

ote on an interview with Shaikh Sir Salman bin Hamad
al Khalfah, Holer of Bahrain, on the 9th i ecember 194^>«
went out to sec his Ui^,t*nces ohaikh -alnian at
Hifa’a n tne ai tenioon oi the 9tn heceuiber. 1 had intenoed
to raib with nici the question of tne decay of the kariaina
Balac iyaii. and aiao the absence, alter so cany years, ol any
pro perl trainee juu fc :es in the Bahrain Courts, as a corrective
to thc!ulot;ies I had pronounced in my speech at hie inves.
titore.
2. !he conversation, however, took an entirely elite rent
turn. After an exchange oi compliments His hi tunes© took
charge >1 it, ana cescribed hie grea t anxiety regarding
eyipplia ano the v^y in which his personal honour as Holer
was afDoted by it. (Hao he knowri that the Bahrain supplies
were eXiausted by the first of Heccnber owin fc to the stupicity
of the lidcle i^-ot Supply Centre unc the U.if.C.C., ano tnat
we had leen livir*g ior tne past ter days by broaching supplies
intende< ior hauai Arabia which v,e had been expressly for
bidden b use his aiixiet> woulc have been greater still >.
he tiien »liucec to conditions on the Irucial Coast anc in
)atar am the iact tkiat the> have been able to no in tain
their re-export trade while Bahrain*# hac been greatly re
duced. t e hue apparently recently had a visit from a well
informed atari who hac teen describing conditions there
anc ment ionec that they were somehow able to export cereals
anu 8U (j jai on a coucicerabie scale* he askec me why it was
that Bahiain's quotas, kiac been fixed so low ano tiiuse ior
the Tracial Coast so high, a f»ct wi.ich i^c caused him
great loss. 1 replica that 1 could not say, as 1 had not
been present at the time, whereupon he arked with considerable
venemence why oi fleers were sent to these parts wao did not
know the country auu who hue to sp;eak through a torjun.cn •