'File 12/10 Tours of the Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf' [‎68r] (135/480)

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Office of the i-olitical Resident
in the Persian Cull f
L.T.hearchus, At Sea.
Dated the 24th April, 1942.
From •» The Ron’ble Lieut. — Colonel .R.Hey, ^liii# f
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Fereian Gulf,
To • The Secretary to the uovemment of India,
External Affairs Department,
1 ew Delhi.
Sir,
1 have the honour to forward herewith a copy of a note
on a tour i have recently completed on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
2. The Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. has not as yet felt the pinch of the
war. The Shaikhs, thanks to Fetroleum Concessions Limited, the
British Overseas Airways Corporation, etc. are drawing what are
for them fat incomes, business is flourishing and the people
are making an easy living out of their legitimate pursuits
combined with a certain amount of smuggling into Persia. They
have now however heard that supplies from India are to be curtails
ed and this combined with Royal Air Force activities is c&us-*
ing them much anxiety, "fchen will there be peace ?* asked the
Shaikh of Has al Khaim&h and this indicates the attitude of
the public at large. Unite whole tney are very friendly to us
and would like us to win, but whatever happens they want the
war to end before it engulfs them. So far as local politics
are concerned the atmosphere is extraoreinarily peaceful. There
are a few intriguers about but generally speaking the Shaikhs
are all firmly established and exercise undisputed authority.
Their anxieties are of an economic nature and nearly every one
of them had two requests to make, viz. (a) that an adequate
fooc supply should he ensured for his Sh&i^hcom and (b) tuat
he shoulo he jproviced with spare parts etc. ior his car.
3. A large scale immigration is at present in progress from
Persia to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , and i am told that some times more
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