"مسقط. وزير مسقط - التعيين، الإجازات، الأجر، وغير ذلك" [و‎‎٢‎٣] (٥٤٦/٥٣)

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BritiBh Reoidency and Cojisulate-ueneral,
Bub hire, 16 th April 1930.
My dear Howell,
I forward herewith a copy of a demi-official
letter I have received frem Murphy about rhotrns.
I do not want you to take any action on it
at present, but 1 should like to place ray views on
record and uiscuss the raatter with you when 1 come to
Simla; and I am Bending it on ahead as you may perhaps
wish to glance through papers regarding him in your
office and give the matter a little consideration
before 1 arrive.
.1 do not know Thomas well, neither have
I seen a great deal of his work, but what I bave seen
has not impressed me with his suitability for that
particular post.
He is an ardent «^plorer, a very fine musician,
a good Arabifi scholar and in man^ ways a brilliant
man: he however is impatient of control, and has uo
ftdea of keeping slightly in the back-ground and
encouraging the Arabs to run the Btate on their own
lines, and as Murphy points out he has reduced the
Council to a farce and refuses to put it on a wider
basis. He has, I think, little inclination for hum
drum routine and the details of administration. The
finances
F. B. HOWELL, JIBa C.B.I.,
WOmim BKCRKTAKY TO THK fiOVKKHMT N*:' 01? INDIA,
SIMLA.