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Dear Mr, Gibson,
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I should like, for your information and that of
Mr. Walton, to acquaint you with the developments in our Trucial
Coast negotiations up to date. i
There is no change on the Abu Dhabi front since the
visit there of Sir Trenchard Fowle, who found the Shaikh quite
intractable. He continues to ask parrot-like, for T, the same terms
as Ibn Saud", which terms - presumably those of our Hejaz Concession
of 1956 - there is no possibility of his obtaining. We offered
him terms similar to those successfully negotiated at Sharjah and
Dubai, but with considerably increased money payments in view of
his larger area. In view of the complete lack of progress at
Abu Dhabi after three months patient negotiation, we see no alterna
tive to abandoning the attempt for the present. Do you agree?
At Ras al Khaimah, after numerous absurd demands
h?,d been gradually given up by the Shaikh, it seemed likely, from
late December 1957> that the Shaikh would accept Dubai-Sharjah
terms if a rather greater ^unofficial payment” was added. The
Company concluded that the light moment to make such a final offer
had come about a month ago, in view of a possible beneficial effect
at Abu Dhabi and of the rather more promising nature of the
Ras al Khaimah territory. A fortnight ago, the Shaikh verbally
accepted Mr. Lermitte f s offer of Dubai terms plus an extra Rs.55*000,
provided that there was nothing in the Exchange of Letters to scare
him off. A few days later, however, he reverted to a demand for
payments on the Qatar scale, and also wished to negotiate with the
Political Agent over the Exchange of Letters, instead of merely
accepting it. For these reasons Mr. Weightman did not proceed
to Ras al Khaimah as he had intended to do, and Lermitte found that
the hoped-for signature of the Concession could not be achieved.
Lermitte f s latest reports indicate his conviction
that the Trucial Shaikhs have now persuaded themselves and each