'Muscat Rising, from April 1917 to January 1918 & resumed from April 1920 to Oct 1920' [‎17r] (42/558)

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and chief ;5heiith of th* Hiyvmi tribe of Crhafirls, B#
Q*lemi went about raiding the tribe© and Ohafirls and
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Hinawie alike declared their uXXeglance but the main body c
of the latter faction only oaaae in when Je^ bin Balih
epenly attched himeeXt to the morement*
tow pr^viouB history and the eubeequent diree*
•tion of the rebeXXion there is XittXe doubt that Xoa
was the and haa been the power behind the scenes f
from the cojiaaenceiaent and the SuXtan confixiae thii ae be*
*ing correct* He was however clever enough to see where
previous revoXutione hnA failed and to perceive the
wiedom of bringing in the Ghafirie first in order to make t
the aoveiaent a universal one in Oman*
yro» the above it wiXX be eeen that though the
Anara traffic wa» the tool which wae finally used to weld
together the tuaoltuoue and turbulent tribee the poXioy
of the deposing of the line of Turki and the reversion to
an Imm had "been a oonslsteai mid oontinuoua one with
th« laider® of th« Sharklyeh dlntriot, a policy of which
thafukaiaaaoor lost aignt and which has now roaohod a ouoeo
My object in giving the above history i» to ehow
that it wiXl not be poe^ible to supprees an ideal whidh
hae existed for so aany ye^ups by a sirapXe effort of force
any more than it has proved possible in Ireland#
le »uet if called upon to use force accompany
it with conciliation and allow such portion of their
demands as are reasonable notably the demand for Justice,
which as has been shown has every foundation* to assist
by force in imposing upon them a worse government than
th«> which they now have constituted would be a policy
with which we could not associate ourselves.Conciliation
Is the more necessary since from the point of view of
their history and their religion right is on their side:
while it would be diffioult today to deny the right of a\
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people to depose its ruler if He rules badly.
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