مجموعة ٤٥/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. مفاوضات حول إبرام معاهدة أنجلو-فارسية؛ إلغاء المعاهدات الحالية." [و‎‎٨] (١٥٤/١٥)

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claim to Bahrein which we are anxious to secure in the
Treaty, for sweetening the pill if we can. Further, if
Article I and the Notes appended thereto are, as we
understand, sufficient to establish beyond question the
recognition by Persia of the independence etc. of the
other Arab sheikhdoms on the Persian Coast, it is arguable
that that ought to be adequate in the case of Bahrein.
On the other hana, as you point out, the abandonment of
Article VII would mean that we should lose the provision
regarding most favoured nation treatment, which, having
regard to the ill-treatment of Bahreinis in Persia in
recent years, it may be of considerable importance to
retain. Moreover, it seems on the whole desirable, since
so much has been made of the Persian claim to Bahrein, to
have it expressly and specifically disposed of in a
separate article of the treaty. Accordingly after
balancing tne considerations carefully we should prefer
to retain Article VII.
(h) Article VIII . It is, I think, common ground
between us that it would be necessary to exempt the
lighthouse staff at Tamb from Persian customs dues, and
visas in the event of tne island being leased to Persia,
and the draft of 30th November covers the point. We
note the views on the question of the lease expressed
in paragraph 9 of your letter of EBthnQctober.
As regards the point in connection with this
Article raised in paragraph 10 of your letter of 28th
October, we attach great importance to establishing
positively Trucial sovereignty over Tamb and Abu Musa
and therefore certainly could not agree to cutting
out this provision in order to save the Persian face.
We also think that it should be retained in the
position it occupies, i.e. in the second sentence of
the/