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Embassy in Washington by the state Department than by a
Vice consul from the Political Agent in Bahrain. Later
Mr. Hart evinced a desire to visit the Trucial Coast and
the territory of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat,and after
an exchange of telegrams with His Majesty's Government at
^7 suggestion he accompanied me on a tour of the Trucial coast.
The somewhat blunt and undiplomatic method of approach
which Mr* Hart and his assistant adopt when dealing with
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political am other matters I confess I had_first found dis
tinctly irritating, but now on better acquaintance with the
gentlemen concerned I realize that it is not intentional lack
of manners but a combination of a national characteristic and
lack of experience.
3. Commercial
I have already written to you on the subject of American
commercial advertising and there is little which I need add to
the information contained in that letter. Consistently since
the beginning of the war, and even before, American periodicals
containing advertisements for all kinds of goods have been
coming onto the Persian Gulf. Recently, owing to the inability
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of the United Kingdom and India to supply our commercial needs,
we have been forced to turn to the United States of America
for essential supplies. Attractive offers have been received
by local business houses,and trade journals are sent gratis even
to not very important merchants in Dubai with a view to keeping
American goods and produce continually before the public eye.
In this they are successful and there is little doubt that
unless we can increase our endeavours to advertise our wares
iind supply them the United States of America will obtain a
footing in the markets of the Persian Gulf from which it will
be very difficult indeed to eject her..