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whether an acceptahle settlement could he reached on this
basis.
5. As for the Bushire Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Butler asks whether
we shall eventually withdraw the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. (as we withdrew
from Henjam and Basidu) without any quid pro quo. The
answer, it seems to us, is that we cannot make very much
use of our withdrawal from B-q shire as a make-weight in
the negotiations, because the Persians can at any moment
insist on our withdrawal without any quid pro quo . If
we were to try to use our readiness to withdraw the
Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. as a bargaining counter in the general
negotiations with Persia regarding the Gulf, the Persians
would be tempted, if the negotiations were going badly,
to call our bluff by insisting n the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. *s
immediate removal. And how would we look then?.*
6. The only point which seems to us to require
consideration at the present stage, before Soheily has
raised these Gulf questions, is what Seymour, who will
shortly be returning to Tehran, must say if and when
Soheily raises the question of the removal of the
Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . One possible line of reply would be to say
that this is a matter which really need not be discussed,
since we have already decided in principle some time ago
to move the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. to Bahrein. The disadvantage of
this course would be that it would raise the expectations
of the Persian Government; they would at once ask when the
Resident was leaving Bushire, and we should thereafter be
asked every month or so if we could yet give a date for the
Resident*s departure, even if the Persians did not take
active steps to make his position intolerable.
7. Another possible line of reply would be for
Seymour to say that he knows that the question of removing
the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. was at one time under discussion, but that he
does/