مجموعة ٣٠/ ٣٣ "الخليج الفارسي، الساحل المتصالح. سياسة حكومة بريطانيا. قائمة شيوخ الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎١‎١‎٣] (٨١٨/٢٢٥)

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retain their freedom of action ae long as possible and no saw
at present no reason wh^ they shooId sacrifice it. A
guarantee of protection in inter-Trucial disputes seemed to
him to have little object and no thougot it a questionable
policy to give the oheihhs a guarantee against Ibn laud before
theie was any oil in their Sheikhdoms which His Majesty’s
Government wished to protect.
He would ? however 5 on the general question, li«e to
make a purely personal suggestion which was, cast His Majesty’s
Government snouid again consider wh-echer there would not be
considerable advantage in replacing the native agent ot Sharjah
v;ho 3 he understood, had recently died, by an j)nglishnan. He
thought it could no longer be maintained that Sha.jah was too
dangerous for this purpose, and he hoped that this idea might
be examined.
THE AIR MINISTRY EEPRSSDHTATIVES intimated that, if
the proposal were put forward officially, they would strongly
support it.
MR. GLAUSOH said that the India Office were in general
agreement with the views of the Government of India and of
oolonel 1‘owle. Referring to Mr. Mendel’s suggestion that, in
tneir relations with the frucial Coast, His lajesty’s G-cvernment
must now either go backwards or forwards, he indicated that the
India Oifice were ready to advance when i/nd as necessary, but
that they saw no adequate reason why His Majesty’s Government
should not continue to pursue their present policy. If an
oil concession were granted on tne Truciai Coast, for example,
at Kas-ai-Rheima, the India Oifice would not oppose the
necessary guarantees of protection being given.
As regards foreign penetration of tne Truciai Coast in
general, Mr. Clauson observed that while the political control
which His Majesty’s Government at present exercised was still
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