"15/7 جزر حوار" [و‎‎٤‎٧] (٥٤٠/٩٨)

Extract from letter dated the 16th Rabi al Than! 1357 CISth
June 1938) from Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani,
Ruler of Qatar 9 to the Political Agent, Bahrain*
After Compliments.
I wish to express my pleasure in seeing you on the
evening of 30th May 1938 when I was honoured by your visit
to Doha. I am sorry that as the visit was so short I could
not enjoy full happiness by meeting you but I hope that I
will have more pleasure when I meet you on another occasion.
I trust that you were happy and successful in your visit t o
the Oman Coast. I wish you good luck and success in all your
affairs. I also hope that you returned to Bahrain in good
health and full comfort. At the same time, I beg to refer
to the conversation which took place betv/een us on the eve-
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ning of 30th May 1938 on your Visit to Doha and wish to write
and cofirm it so that you may have a thorough knowledge of
it. You discussed with me the question of Hawar. I thanked
you for informing me that you were going to investigate the
matter very thoroughly so that the facts may become clear,
and His Majesty’s Government may be able to decide the matter
in the light of justice and equity. You asked me whether I
had anything further to say about Hawar other than what I
had written in my letter which you had with you. I replied
that what I had written was limited to the present situation
and in view of what you had written on V \he subject to me.
The letter to which you referred did not restrict all the
evidence that I may have relating to this matter, but dis
cussions take a different form at certain stages according
to the development of the situation. Something has to be
said for every situation. I do not understand, until the
present moment, the grounds on which the Bahrain Government
base their aggression on Hawar. Perhaps, if I hear the state
ment which they consider it to be the ground on which they
base/-