Coll 35/25(4) 'Telegraphs, Postal and Wireless. Arabic broadcasts by B.B.C. and All-India Radio (including minutes of Persian Gulf Radio Listeners' Ctte)' [‎254r] (507/523)

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Manamah and Muharray. including the Khalifah, leraians, Holia
and foreigners. They have no sympathy with the country
people (the Bahama) and little sympathy with the Arab diver
class though in the past the townspeople have frequently
tried to stir the others into taking part in local political
disturbances, usually without success. It is among this class
that there is definite anti-British feeling which is partly
nationalistic and partly directed against the Ruling family.
These people are educated to a certain degree, many of them
have travelled and they readily absorb propaganda from news
papers and from the wirelessbroadcasts and from individual
agitators. The vociferous element among them is the student
type consisting of young men educated in the Bahrain schools
and abroad, in Syria and Iraq, but they are supported and
encouraged by some older men, local merchants and traders,
who are often anti-British because they have personal reasons
for disliking the present regime. The young men belong to
clubs, they hold meetings, sometimes in the houses of
important merchants and they listen in eagerly to Arabic
propaganda from Berlin.
4. The most obnoxious of the intelligentsia are 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. , Sunnis of Persian origin, who have lived for
two or three generations in Bahrain. Most of the merchants
in Manamah and Muharraq are 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. ; the real Arabs, with
the exception of a few families, are very poor and therefore,
because Manamah and Muharraq are essentially commercial
communities, the real Arabs have little influence. It is
only the Khalifah who regard the real Arabs such as the
Bin-Ali, the Naim, and the Jelahmah etc. as being superior
to the 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. owing to tribal friendship in the past.