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Enclosure to Bahrain Printed Letter No.
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C/1023 dated 2nd. July 1944
Note by Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain,; dated
2nd July, 1944, on Dates fron Saudi Arabia.*
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Shaikh Abdullah al Fadhel the Saudi Arabian
Representative here called to see me this morning
(2nd July 1944) and explained that owing to a number
of reasons the Saudi Arabian Government found themselves
with a surplus of dates and hoped that Bahrain would
be agreeable to accepting a certain quantity in exchange
for un specifi ed goods•
2. I told Shaikh Abdullah that I thought it
highly improbable that any such arrangement could be
made as the Bahrain Government themselves were in a
precisely similar predicament. I discussed the
question with the Adviser to the Bahrain Government
later in the morning and finding him in complete a
agreement with my own viev/s I informed Shaikh Abdullah
in writing that J it was much regretted that the
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CONFIDENTIAL , .
No. C/67
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Office of the Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
Camp, Shiraz,
22nd July 1944.
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Copy forwarded with compliments to:
H.M< 3 Secretary of State for India,
London.
Secretary to the Government of India in the
External Affairs Department,
New Delhi.
with reference to Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. telegram No. 1369, dated
11th June 1944.
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