مجموعة ٣٠/ ٢٢٤ "ترتيبات العملة في المشيخات العربية في الخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٥‎٥] (١٥٧/١١٧)

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Reference No. 405
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OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER
FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM
CHAMBFR OF COMMFRCt BUILDING
WOOD STREET
KARACHI
28th December 1948
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currency in the Persian Gulf.
refer tD ^° ur telegram 1752 dated 25th
October about
.. telegram and I now e^se^^urt^r'cMc^V 011 \ h l lines indioated “ y°ur
(No.'d. 2937-Asia(A)/48 dated *1°^ ° n this .f b ^ t
to the terms in which I should reply. ' ld b gl d of your S^dance as
'' f jcovered already,^rf^t^f^To^mo^eTh the SrOUn i h - be ^ fairly well
that the banks reached their decision independently Governi[ne ^ t
of pronipting or permitting them to give preference^ Tn** at there was no < l ues tion
by the political authorities could have been considered onS if^th^hlnt
had been manifestly unreasonable and in v-i^w n-p +u ^ ^ bbe balllcs decision
and the difficulty^ malntZ^ Z acco^ts^tha P ^ 6 °f ^
satisfied that this was not the case 0 nne h^° ’ tbe /°l ltlc al Resident is
w if n iiut, one case. unce having accepted the banks* decision
H.M.G. s offices, for reasons already explained, had no option but to follow suit.
whatever materiaft^lft ?^^ 3 f IkraElullah ^ letter, I should welcome
whatever material the Political Resident considers would best serve to refute these
Sitish'omcerf at this stage is in regard to the charges a^Lns^
tish officers. I find it difficult to believe that Ikramullah has repeat"-, the
^red^i? a^l'T ^ conviction, and I suggest t^t^t ^ulfbe
answered, if at all, in the briefest and most temperate temns.
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. 6 , +* -r i • -,"^ b would be interesting to know the source of Ikramullah 1 s infn-rmtw—
publication by "Dawn” ^- filbs °“- l{0 ' d ^ ted 22nd September, Burnett mentioned the
inter alia jTh ^ if a letter attributed to three Arab merchants, which dealt
35^1^ * the , al i e 8 ed Preponderance of non^uslims in the administration of
Bahrain. The merchants asserted that out of the eight or nine senior officers
adninia^ ^ ? ° 1;it:L ° al A e ent onl y one w as a Muslim, and that in the entire
-'orei^n Affa^’ I - Usl ; ras f ° rmed P er haps less than 1 per cent". The Ministry of
.fT ? V6 b6en lnfl “ e «ced by this letter, but a more probable
wS f™ 10n 1 ®. that * h ®y h ave been listening to the grievances of one Isharat Hussain,
Sout t hl ° ™ tlme f f i 0iated “ ^-ictant to the Political Agent. Hay wrote to me ’
aoout this man, and it appears that he is a Pakistani zealot of an unreliable type.
flct that *V, Whatever the source, the reports are blatantly tendentious, and the
only in +’ Sy ave fome< i the basis of a formal representation is oomcrehensible
ocvf ,l , t[le °° ntext of Pakistan’s present relations with India and the’u.K.,
lat+Pn' fffT ar ® by j ealous y of the foraer and a deep-seated conviction that the
j-axier s attitude is partisan.
. ,, mn sen< ii>ng a copy of this letter and enclosure to the Political
resident in the Persian Gulf.
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ir raul Patrick, K.C.I.E., C.S.I
Commonwealth Relations Office,
wrung Street
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