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‘19/1 VISIT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS AND PUPILS TO BAHRAIN’ [17r] (33/44)
The record is made up of 1 file (20 folios). It was created in 16 Mar 1933-1 Apr 1941. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Confidential
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D.O.No .C/290-19/1.
Dated the 1st April 1941.
Please refer to your telegram No .C/170 dated
the 26th March 1941.
2. The boys first sang at a dinner given by Shaikh
Mohammad bin Isa, after the latter had read one of his
poems on the subject of "What fine chaps the Arabs arel"
Their songs were not ordinary scouting songs, nor well-
known songs such as they might have all known and sung
spontaneously. The boys stood up to sing in regular
rows, and the beat was given by one of their Palestinian
teachers, named Ibrahim al *Id. (N.9. Of the teachers
who accompanied them, only a junior one was a Kuwaiti).
The subject of the songs was Palestine, the killing and
ill-treatment of Arabs there. They sang about half a
dozen "nashids".
3. On a later evening, at the Nadi al Mukhtabat ar-
(l ? r. Vallance*s secretary) tried to interest them in
games.
4 . It seems that they have been making an attempt
to imbue Bahrain schoolboys with undesirable Arab "Jugend"
ideas.
Riyadhia, they insisted on singing, although Kemal Mehza
Yours sincerely,
L
Major A.C. Galloway, O.B.E.,
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
,
Kuwait.
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This file concerns educational visits to Bahrain, including a visit of six Iraqi teachers to Bahrain in 1933 (ff 2-9); a visit of Kuwait teachers and twenty-seven schoolboys and their possible interest in visiting the California-Arabian Standard Oil (CASCO) camp at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in February 1941 (ff 10-13); and a complaint concerning the behaviour of a party of boy scouts from Kuwait particularly concerning their singing of 'odes of an inflammatory nature' regarding Palestine (ff 14-17). Correspondence in this file is between the British Embassy at Baghdad; the Indian Assistant to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait; and F W Ohliger, Resident Manager, CASCO Camp, at Dhahran.
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. File notes appear at the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-17; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence (the exception being No. 16, which is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
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- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:8v, 10r:12v, 14r:21v, back-i, back
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