"ملف II (F 94) 82/34 امتياز شركة أ.ب.و.ك" [و‎‎٦] (٣٦٢/٢٦)

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to the "toweat of miarffpreeealiatiQa'' in the Brltiaii papers
toy oariyin# tbe war toto tiie eae-ajr's casajp. "Ihat if
fersla should publish to the world the deplorablo truth
about the parlous state of Britain, shown toy its
abandonment of the gold standard, by the fall of the value
of the pound, the steadily increasing unoaployment, the
clamour of all British eolonies to be relieved of the yoke
of oppression, etcetera, etcetera'*, *hc saas issue has a
long article from the pea of a certain oaeed t.ima uaficy
(brother of the lawyer who receives a retainer fro» the
Anglo-i'ersian Oil Coapany and the author of the recent
toistory of Bahrein froa the earliest tiaes) consisting of
two and a half colaans of concentrated abuse of the British,
dese itoiog the« as the most vain, the most egotistical, the
proudest, and the greediest race in the world f including
even criticisas of their table manners. 1 enclose a copy
of this effusion as a literary curiosity,
ii. me n oohsish" of the 8Sth January continues
to call attention to the false statements appearing in the
British press; showing that these aust indicate the
weakness of the British case. She statement in the •Tines*
of the 9th January that ' eyaourtache had ceased to he
Minister of Court but that "it is not Jtnown whether he
himself has resigned or not* is held up to ridicule, the
fact being, as stated at the tiise, that the inister of
Court had been "excused froa servioe", thy the point
is of iaportanca is not quite obvious, perhaps it is that
under the present dispensation the servants of the Grown
are not at liberty to resign, as the Inister of finance
has recently learnt. .
13. The "sitareh-Wahia" of the sane date tons
s leading article devoted to the discussion of the probable
attitude of the various members of the l^eague Council.
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