مجموعة ٣٠/ ٢٠٣ "الخليج الفارسي. قطر - اقتراح توظيف الشيخ لـ"مستشار متخصص في الشؤون الأجنبية." [و‎‎١‎٣] (٢٩/٢٧)

Confidential•
D.C.No.C/338.
My dear Peel,
Office of the Political Resident
in the Persian Cult,
1^.,, Shiraz.
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rfete^the 12th September, 1940.
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There have recently been indications tnat ^naihh
Abdullah bin Casim al Thani of ^atar is trying to obtain
an Iraqi to be his adviser on foreign affairs. Past April,
Ibrahim Helmi al Omar, Press ’Director, Bagdad, v/as oftered
employment as »0il Specialist” in ^atar, but was unable
to accept, and his request for further details, with a
view to finding some one else, was apparently not answered.
At the end of August, however, the Shaikh’s son Hamad
asked Howes in Bahrain to arrange for him to go to Iraq
in his own launch. The reason given v/as that he needed
medical treatment, but it is probable that this is merely
an excuse to coixtinue the search for an Iraqi adviser.
2 . It is clearly most undesirable that an Iraqi smould
hold this position in qatar, but I do not think tnat the
Treaty position entitles us to forbid it. ,/e are, however,
obstructing the Shaikh as much as possible, and are relay in
Hamad’s trip to Iraq by pointing out the difficulties of
entering the Shatt-al-Arab under war conditions, and by
suggesting a visit to India instead. Unfortunately Hamad
now seems very keen to visit Iraq, and it will scarcely be
possible to refuse him a visa if he should persist.
3 . I am sending a copy of this letter to Caroe.
Yours sincerely,
B.T.Peel Esquire, C.B.E.,M.C.,
The India Office,
. London.
IKE#. HJL DCPt.
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INDIA OFFICE
♦sent under Printed letter ho.0/339 of
12th September 1940*