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(s 4425/4/91)
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PERSIAN CLAIM TO BAHRAIN.
In the course of a conversation with me this
afternoon, Mr. Francis B. Loomis (see E 4784/2369/91 of
1934) again reverted to the Persian claims in the Persian
Gulf. His Company, the Standard Oil of California,
had apparently heen much worried hy Senator King’s
proposed reservation to the United States ratification of
the Arms Traffic of 1925. He gave me a pretty accurate
account of this affair, except that he claimed the credit
for killing the reservation almost entirely for his own
Company, a misconception of which I did not attempt to
disabuse him. He was however abviously worried by the
Persian activity over this reservation, and said he was
nervous lest the Persians might now press their claim to
Bahrain even more strongly, e.g. by seizing one of the
Company’s tankers.
2. I said that I thought this was in the highest
degree unlikely. The Persian claim to Bahrain was not a
reality, and the Persians had no case at all. His
Majesty’s Government would never admit the claim, and had
indeed recently been strengthening their position in
Bahrain by the transfer thither of their naval stations in
the Gulf. I told Mr. Loomis that I thought that in present
conditions he could set his mind completely at rest on
this point, and that it seemed to me in the highest degree
improbable that the Persians would ever provoke a serious
dispute on this question by such high-handed action as he had
appeared to fear.
(Sgd) G.W. RENDEL.
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FOREIGN OFFICE.
17th July, 1935.