"ملف رقم ٠٦٢٩ مراسلات تتعلق بالأرض الواقعة تحت مياه البحر خارج المياه الإقليمية" [و‎‎٤‎٥] (٩٤/٨٩)

October 15, 1949.
I send herewith a copy in Arabic and English of
letter No.C/S-114 of September 7 that I addressed to the
Ruler of Abu Dhabi about the proposed arbitration on the
question of sea-bed rights to which I have received no reply.
I now notice that the expression King’s Counsel
has been mistranslated as ” . In English
of course it means a barrister who is so eminent that he is
given the honorific title of King's Counsel for which he has
I believe the privilege of performing legal services to
His Majesty free of charge'. The point to make is that when
acting for any one except His Britannic Majesty his charges are
extremely heavy. vVe have now changed the translation to
II l_£ ^->*0 I dJU I dj (^>1^ ,Jw3 UJ i J ^ U->J ^ CrS* 1 JL>- I " •
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The translation of eminence in paragraph 4 as
"2 ; »' is again not too happy and we have changed
this to " a j —&—
Finally I see that the real meaning of however in
paragraph 5 was missed and this passage has now been changed
to '' Iq1*«J 1 j I «JLU 1.- 11 .
I think you had better substitute the present
translation for he earlier one explaining the position to
the Shaikh where necessary and, above all, getting a written
reply out of him.
P.D. Stobart, Esq.,
Political Officer,
Trucial Coast,
Sharjah.
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