مجموعة ٣٠/ ٣٣ "الخليج الفارسي، الساحل المتصالح. سياسة حكومة بريطانيا. قائمة شيوخ الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎٢‎٥‎٠] (٨١٨/٤٩٩)

difficult i «8 cannot be wholly incuperablc# 2 he contrast
between the lot of the traveller who has first to face
the 225 miles of sea in the teeth of the monsoon and
then fly along one of the most inhospitable ooaste in the
world* and spend the ni^ht in the hot weather in auoh
places as Muscat, Bahrain and Basrah or Baghdad, and the
lot of the traveller who is transported as rapidly as
possible to the coolness of the Persian plateau and
then along it to Beirut, oan readily be realised.
11 . To sum up:-
There are in my humble opinion very serious
objections to a civil air route along the Arab littoral,
both from the political point of view and from the point
of view of the ordinary travelling publio who, after all,
must support the service if it is to be maintained.
The Persian coast route is certainly the beat route if
the requisite permission oan be obtained, and I would
suggest for consideration that if the Persian Covernment
were approached by all the air companies who intend to
use this route and by ary international association that
has been established for the furtherance of oivil aviation,
they would find it more difficult to refuse them if approached
by the Imperial Airways alone. Finally 1 would venture to
enquire whether, if the Persian Government are still
adamant, the Central Persian route is quite out of the
question, having regard to its manifest advantages over
the Arab route from the point of view of the ordin r*y travel!*
12 . I am sending copies of this despatch to the
Government of India and His Majesty's bperetary o~ ->tate
for India.
I have, etc.
(Sd.) H.V.Bisooe,Lt.Colonel
Political Beaident in the Persian Gulf and
H.B.M's Consul-General for Pars, Khuristan,etc