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political AOKifcnr,
BAHRAIN.
12th February 1945.
(My dear Sir Geoffrey)
A deal 1* heard these days about how
necessary it is for the export trade of the United Kiugdom
to be increased on the termination of the present war but
little appears to be being dona, anyway through official
channels, to brinf about this desirable state of affairs,
v/hile 3nr manufacturers are silent and, as I was given to
understand vhen in Cairo in October of last year, the
Board of Trade do not welcome even semi-official support
for British business advertising, our American friends
are losing no time in endeavouring to acquire markets left
vacant by the Germans and the Japanese. American
advertising literature not only in the form of the
periodical T, Life H but also as special sales catalogues is
arriving in Bahrain anr' o'\ th^ frucisu* coasts, but I have
yet to see any individual or collective attempt by British
business t# draw tue attention of Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. merchajits
to British products.
£, It is now that our mnufacturers should be working
to acquire control of the per&iAr GvJLf market and should be
doing all in their grower be secure the whole or at least a
part of tha trade which was in the of Japan and
Germany uu till Defore thl" war. Why endeavours are not
/being
The Hon^le Sir Geoffrey prior, K.C.I.iT.»
The Hon’ble the 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 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
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