'File 12/1 II Persian Claim to Bahrain, April 1946-December 1950' [‎8r] (15/20)

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and concernod only in furthering their own interests.
In this respect the Arabs and the Bahama have shown them
selves to be more disinterested. The young Holis Group of people who migrated from the Arab shores of the Gulf to the Persian side over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of whom have since returned to the Arabian Peninsula. resent
the attitude of the Khalifah and the Arabs who do not
regard them as true Arabs, Many of them are leaders of
the so called "National Front" and these leaders have
recently been trying to attract the Bahama to their party,
but with small success. The young Holis Group of people who migrated from the Arab shores of the Gulf to the Persian side over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of whom have since returned to the Arabian Peninsula. profess to be
patriotic and opposed to the Persians, they organised the
appeal for funds for Palestine and the anti-partition de
monstrations and they claim to be the supporters of the
working classes, but some of them are sympathetic to the
Persians. In the last two notices which were issued by
the "National Front" they threatened to appeal to Persia
xf they did not get what they wanted. it is la:own too
that whs* immediately^he left Bahrain Abdullah Zeera was
in tough with Saad bin Shemlan, a notorious agitator, whose
£on /^he head clerk of the Imperial Bank of Iran, is the
secretary of the Muharraq Club and one of the leaders of
the "National Front". Although most of the more responsi-
ble and e£k*r Holis Group of people who migrated from the Arab shores of the Gulf to the Persian side over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of whom have since returned to the Arabian Peninsula. would certainly not welcome the Persians
m Banrain yet there is cause to believe that for political
reasons many of the young anti-government Holis Group of people who migrated from the Arab shores of the Gulf to the Persian side over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of whom have since returned to the Arabian Peninsula. , who direct
tue affairs of the clubs^would give secret support to a
pro-Persian movement, because by so doing they might advance
their own cause in Bahrain.
8. Taking the different people who make up the popu
lation in Bahrain and their reaction towards the Persian
claim,^none of them regard the claim as justified. it
would find no support from the Khalifah and the Arabs, unless
from an individual who was personally antagonised towards
his community. It would find no support among the village
Bahama. A few of the town Bahama might be willing to *
intrigue and politics are their metier.
The Sunni Persians