'الملف 8/11 صحف محظورة ومقالات صحفية تحريضية' [و‎‎٩‎٥] (٢٦٠/١٨٩)

Confidential.
D.O.No.562-3 of 1950.
/ N^"
British. Residency,
Bushire, the 13th October 1930.
/■Caw m^rr
P
Please refer to n^'- demi-official letter No.533-S,
dated 3rd October 1930, regarding the transfer of the
Residency.
Since I wrote that, further changes have occurred
at Teheran and negotiations are apparently now being
definitely broken off. The question of the transfer of the
Residency is therefore again in abeyance. I am however
getting somewhat wearied of being a pawn in the prolonged
and futile negotiations. I have therefore sent a wire
today asking whether His Majesty's Government propose to
transfer the Residency or not, and pointing out that as the
matter had been reopened it was highly probable that the
Persians would redouble their pinpricks and try and make
the Resident's position impossible. I therefore urged that
His Majesty's Government should either show the Persians
that we are not wholly devoid of means of retaliation or
that they should agree to the transfer of the Residency
without any quid pro quo, but should stipulate for the
maintenance of the status quo until it goes. What the reply
will be I do not know but I still think it wo ul jbe as well
if you spoke to Shaikh Hamad in the sense that I indicated
in my previous letter on this subject and told him that the
matter ..
Gapt. C.G.Prior,1 # A.,
Political Agent,
Bahrain.