File 522/1922 Pt 7 'Bahrain: Persian claim to sovereignty; Persian Treaty negotations 1929-1930' [‎449r] (902/1126)

business in Bahrain.
\ 8. The two Persian communities have little love for each
l other, and their animosity is principally based on religious
antipathy. This year there were signs of more sympathy
between the parties, and Sunni boys are now to be seen reading
side by side with Shiah boys in the main Persian school. The
younger generation show a more liberal attitude towards each
other, due partly to laxer religious ideas and partly to the
recent growth of national sentiment. There are individual
friendships between men of the opposite parties, but little
business dealings, and social intercourse is principally
confined to solemn occasions such as Ids and marriages.
Relations have however steadily improved in recent years and
| with a continuance of the Pax Britannica which shelters them,
s, permanent improvement is not too much to hope for.
9. So far as I am aware their grievances are few. They
would naturally prefer to be under the administration of their
own government, but they come to Bahrain of their own accord
and mostly prosper and remain here. I have heard complaints
that they, more especially the Shiahs, have not been given ih
their position at public tt functions, etc, but apart from
the dislike of Arabs in general for Persians in general which
fluctuates from time to time, the Shiahs have few members who
have sufficient social position to enable them to take a more
prominent place.
t +-ir>r-cs arp resented by all Persians,
10. The passport regulations are resenieu
-i _ wr-i-fVi their trade and liberty
who find it interferes serious }
. j. y,p -q a hrain State had no qption but to
of movement, but the Banram
'The trade in sailing boats from
retaliate in this matter. Tne xr~u
-Dorplan side has undoubtedly been
the small ports on the Persia.
. . bv this for it is difficult for such people to
prejudiced by this,
obtain visas without going some uista
U i understand some resentment was felt that .he y-
of'the Persian school were stopped from parading the streets
•■Hr 'hnp’ie c ' and national flags, an
military formations with bugl - -
complaints
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