مجموعة ٢٨/١ "محمية عدن: لحج؛ المؤامرة على سلطان لحج ومسألة الاعتراف بابنه الأكبر كخليفة له" [و‎‎٢‎٥] (٧٤/٤٩)

this dissident element and His Highness, but the animosity
still smouldered, and in 1930 it brojte out in the form of
a conspiracy, instigated by these persons during the
absence of His Highness in India, to remoYe him and to
arrange the succession of a member of the Fadhl Muhsln
branch* The conspiracy was discoYered; and, on his
return from India, the Sultan took such action against the
ringleaders as he hoped would put on end to overt
opposition to his authority.
5. In consequence of this incident His Highness
made tentative proposals to the Residency that he should
ensure Continuity in the succession by proclaiming his
eldest son, Sultan >*acihl bin Abdul Karim as heir apparent,
-y predecessor advised him not to do so and the matter
1 appeared to have dros>ped.
6 . On the lath February of this year, however, His
Highness informed me that at the instance of the electors,
and v.ith his permission, an election had been held, that
his eldest son Sultan Fadhl bin /ibdul Karim had been
unanimously elected as his euoeescor, and that he had
ancordingly nominated him as such.
7* His Hi hness had caused or allowed these steps to
be taken without prior reference to the Residency, find I
was about to express my objections to this procedure when
the report was received of the attempted assassination of
Sultan Fadhl at the hands or at the instigation of the
leaders of the Fadhl luhsin brunch (vide Political
Intelligence Summary paragraphs 22 o 0 , et seq). This new
circumstance made it impolitic for me to sdyi. e His
Ri chness to retract his reoogniti n of Sultan 'adhl as
his