File 522/1922 Pt 7 'Bahrain: Persian claim to sovereignty; Persian Treaty negotations 1929-1930' [‎266r] (536/1126)

have now decided to concentrate «ii +v>« i*. -
® ® J " L th0ir energies on the
agation of racial totred within the af ri<ta*e „
“* *•'*-“»Having contrived
till© SCC© ti$yi0© 0^ 0 a! r^nc*•f ^
® J .moot totally di^advantageous to
jtl S'.hj thall'* Hoxt ©t©O- i© to ■fHj-a .
w ansur© the ©up ort of the oil-
hearing area, at the expense of racial torwny, for which the-
care nothing. In *1^ their .otto la .till -Divide et inpera'
while in Turkey and eraia their oolicy any he likened to the
officious protection of the Christian ninoritiea in the Ottoman
aioire by Czarir.t Huaeia. he- would do well to eetablish the
counterpart or the pronosed Baghda, M « Kurdieh Co^iBeion
in India, where the 'groan, of the whole population deafen
the ears of the world". As for 'Ira-, let h r beware of auch
insidious attempts to under Ine her eovereign statues they are
the first-frits of a disastrous treaty which she should never
have signed*
Thm afctltuae or th© Persian ore os ha© at no period during
recerit yearn been other than ^mfriondly, hut I have thought it
won to report upon thin particular camp iga f which not only
rovideo conclusive proof of the strict directive control
©xerelsed hy ah© Poraian Oovomaent in spite of all a© t$g
to the contrary, hut illustrates the abrupt change of heart vfalch
tm.B ho©n noticeable in '••ersian official -mar tor a since th©
conclusion of the Anglo- f Iraqi Treaty# A few months ago th©
attitude of the lerslsn proas towards * Iraq was uniformly hostile
but during the last few weeks the r# 8 hafagh-i-dorkhl, the editor
of which is on intimate term© with the Minister of Court, ha®
gone out of tt» way to publish a whole series of indiscriminately
flattering article® on that country, and has even had the
effrontery to declare that Persia refrained from recognising
’Iraq