مجموعة ٢٧/٩ "جوازات السفر. الأشخاص تحت الحماية البريطانية. وثائق سفر الأشخاص المسافرين، والمواطنين المنسوبين، إلى بعض المحميات البريطانية والبلاد العربية." [و‎‎١‎٩‎٠] (١٢٤٤/٣٨٤)

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Could you please refer to your letter No*P.Z<>176/35
of the 9th January 1935 on the subject of visas for the Trueial
Coast*
2* The position is that before the issue of Foreign Office
Circular NooT 2117/593/378 of 10th March 1932, nobody, whether
British or Foreign, could visit the Trucial Coast without
special permission from the Resident* By this Circular,
however, we have put the Shaikhdoms of the Trucial Coast on
the same terms as the other Shaikhdoms: Muscat, Bahrain and
Kuwait, for which foreigners cannot obtain visas without
\ reference to us, but for which British subjects can get visas,
(which cannot well be refused them by the Consular authority
concerned as long as they are respectable individuals) without
any such reference. In other words the Foreign Office Circular
in question, in the paradoxical way in which things happen in
the Gulf, while intended to strengthen our hands, and actually
doing so as regards foreigners in general visiting the Arab
Coast as a whole, has weakened it with regard to the Trucial
Coast*
3. Neither the Trucial Coast towns,(we do not allow
imperial Airways passengers to enter Sharjah town), still le^
the interior, are really fit places for casual foreigners or
British subjects, to visit or reside or travel in, unless in
special circumstances. We cannot from the practical point
of view adopt the "at your own risk" attitude, since in ^e
case /
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The India Office,
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