Coll 29/2 'Bushire Residency: question of transfer to Bahrain' [‎97r] (198/902)

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THE CEAIHEEN said that as politically departments
were in agree,,lent * it appeared desirable to record a con
clusion to the effect th t the early move of the political
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. from jbusnire to iiahrein was aesiiaole*
Tnis was agreed to«
A.s regards the other aspect of the proposed move*
‘ r R. ’RjATEeL recalled th- t some years ago the move n&.d been
agreed on in principle by the tarren hisner Committee.
The roblem now narrowed itself down to whether the move
was so desirable on politic:! grounds thr.t it ought to oe
carried out as rapidly as possible, or whether it should be
regarded merely as & distant objective at whicri our policy
should sim, without involving any immediate modification of
the present position in the culf. The Foreign Office, for
their part, regarded the move as urgently necessary for
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political reasons. In t^e first pic-o wiujf
sooner the 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. could be established on the Arab side
of the liulf > the better. The situation on the Arab coast
was developing rapidly. Oil concessions had already been
granted, ana others were in -recess of being ac,paired.
There were a number of international questions of growing
importance, including that of air communications. it was
possible th-t the French and uutch might wish to ostcbl
regular air services along the Arab coast m the near future.
Moreover there was the important question ox the south
eastern frontiers of tsudi Arabia which might at any moment
n ,. r—-nticularly at the base of the '^atar
lead to difficulties* particulars
x-, + of the Trucial coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . It
peninsula* and in the hinterland oi .
, n-r.-Hle th t tne 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. should be
would be irfinitely preferable tx..
qide . of the uulf nov; * before any
established on the Arab siae oi
11 rate than that we should
^ hecame really ^cube* biiaix
of these questions o^ecxh-
i-oa npporae a matter of immediate
wait until the move nad become a m~
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