'File 12/2 Treatment of Baharna in Persia' [‎187r] (373/440)

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P.Z.3431/35
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WHITEHALL, S.W.1
12th August, 1935.
My dear Baggallay,
Would you kindly refer to Foreign Office letter of tie
ay, 1934, No .JS. 2633/1561/91 and correspondence regarding
the ill-treatment of Bahreinis in Persia. We have never
ar.swered this letter officially, though we have been on the
point of doing so several times and we have had a good deal
of inconclusive correspondence with India and the Gulf on
It now seemsthat the problem has receded into the background,
but it may be well if I summarise the position as it appears
to us at present.
be done on behalf of Bahreinis who have acquired Persian
nationality by virtue of the Persian Nationality Law, but
there is still a category, probably a small one, of
a reinis who do not fail within the scope of the Persian
Nationality Law (viz. presumably, Bahreinis born in Bahrein
who possess no land in Persia). In regard to these the
India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. "view still is that it is desirable to protest
in cases of ill-treatment if only to avoid the appearance of
themselves, are lively to be unavailing) by retaliatory
action has been considered at some length with the
Government of India and the Resident and no very satisfactory
suggestions have emerged. The only two suggestions which
the subject with copies of which 1 need not trouble you.
We are all now agreed that nothing effective can
acquiescing in the Persian claim to Bahrein.
The question of backing such protests (which, by
still/
H. L. Baggallay, jgsq.,
Foreign Office,
S.W.l.
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