File 18/9 ‘Buildings:- Proposal re: Conversion of Sepoy livg’ [?] at Bahrain into I.A.’s Court Room etc.’ [‎24r] (47/108)

with the Shaikh and his Iteailj, they wer-e much
against it on the gn)unds tiiat it was not
app^p^iato politically that an Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Oou^t
should he held outside the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. limits, and
that it was not suitable that the OouH should
be held in a building which fas nmted and was
oi so pooan ap^euTunce# J?he ijhaikh, however,
in spite oi the strongieeling expressed by his
Family, agreed to allow the GouH to be held
in this way as a temporary measure, as we we-^e in
difficulties ove**” accommodation.
4. I am aware that the Shaikh and his Family
and his entourage have commented somewhat bitterly,
when passing the building, on the time which has
elapsed without any steps having been taken to
move the CouH; back to the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. a-nja. It is
most undesirable that we should give cause lor _
a feeling Ol ill-usage to enter the minds oi ou^
friends, on v/hom our policy in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
so much depends, o^ that we should place in the
hands of ou*^ ehemies the weapon oi pointing eut, as
they neglect no opportunity ox doing, the danger
of allowing the British to establish themselves
anywhere as they at once take advantage ox it.
5. In shoH, I beg that this matter may be
t-^ated not as a iiuestion of whetke-r there a-re
fimds av^iilabie in the estimates fo^ public wo^ks,
but rather as an obligation of honour to a friendly
Tfcder, who has of his couHesy allowed us a privilege
against the wishes of his Family arid at the