File 522/1922 Pt 7 'Bahrain: Persian claim to sovereignty; Persian Treaty negotations 1929-1930' [‎307r] (618/1126)

the latter is pulled down under cover of bombardment from
British warships and the aspiring young brother or son is
appointed to succeed the degraded Sheikh. ; no reward is
then asked for all these benevolent services but even some
thing more is given as a donation; the new sheikh is guaran
teed against foreign attacks and a treaty is concluded to
safeguard this advantage. The continual interference of
the British resident or Khan Bahadur commences from that date
and if any resistance is shown the British Dreadnoughts
reappear and rosy hopes of supremacy are roused in the mind
of a rival Sheikh who will succeed the resisting Sheikh when
and if need arises. The British Government thus rules
inexpensively all over the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and then fills the
World 1 s press with presumptuous claims of advancing the cause
of civilisation and justice in the midst of fanatic and
ignorant races, of putting up naval buoys and lighthouses
near their marts and of prohibiting the slave trade in their
territories.
A negro is said to h a ve once tried to silence the
weeping of a child in his bosom all the time repeating that
he had nothing to fear so long as he was in the arms of
himself {the negro). But the child retorted saying that the
fears he had were of the negro himself and not ©f anyone else.
The British Government is now playing with the Arab
Sheikhs exactly as did the negro with the child. The story
of Dubai and the appearance at the harbour oz British guix-
boats, cited in the Shafagh sometime ago is an example of
this deceitful policy. The putting up of a few buoys by the
British Havy In the Gulf is less for philanthropic consider
ations than for the furtherance of British commerce ?$iich
absorbs the root and marrow of the Gulf l s resources. The
Indian and British Governments therefore become dissatisfied
if any other foreign Power
ever attempts to use these same