مجموعة ٣٠/ ٣٣ "الخليج الفارسي، الساحل المتصالح. سياسة حكومة بريطانيا. قائمة شيوخ الساحل المتصالح" [ظ‎‎٢‎٧‎١] (٨١٨/٥٤٢)

air routes expires in April 1932, and there is yet
nothing to show that we can hope for a renewal of
the facilities there granted us. The sooner, in these
circumstances, the general exploration and plotting out
of the alternative route proposed on the Arab littoral
can be completed, the better. At the moment we are face
with difficulties at several points. We have not yet
secured permission from Ibn Saud for landing grounds in
Kasa, and there is no immediate prospect of our doing so.
The Trucial Sheikhs, as will be seen from the papers now
submitted, are hostile and suspicious, and will grant us
facilities only under compulsion, while in Muscat,
although the Sultan and his Government are friendly and
anxious to co-operate, there is the danger of complications
with hinterland tribes if the air route follows the
course tentatively marked out for it across the base
of the Musandim Peninsula. The recent incident at
Khasab shows that even along the coast of Muscat opposition
may be anticipated, but coastal opposition can be dealt with
by the Navy without involving us in undesirable hinterlajid
commitments such as will be difficult to avoid if the
air route is to run across the base of the Musandim
Peninsula, and any question in consequence arises of the
application of pressure to the local tribes - particularly
at Baraimi. The Trucial Sheikhs are not only one of
the most important links in the chain (it is possible, at
a pinch to do without landing grounds in Hasa f if sufficiently
powerful aeroplanes are employed; Jnlt this is not so in
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the Trucial area, which cover*s ,fit much longer stretch of
country), but possibly represent also the point at which it
is easiest in the first instance to apply pressure and to
secure our demands. We may, however, expect in the future
to receive the views of the Government of India on the various
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