"ملف 19/209 I (C 73) رغبة الأسرة الحاكمة البحرينية في زيارة دول أخرى" [و‎‎٢‎٠] (٤٣٤/٥٤)

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THE AGEHJ'Y,
BAHRAIH# 7th December 1935.
My dear Powle
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Will you kindly refer to your demi-official ^ tter
K0.9C5-S dated the 29th November 1935 about the invitation
to Shaikh Sir namad bin t Isa ^ Khalifah to go to India for
2* I saw Shaikh Sir Hamad this morning (December 7th)
at Sakhir and, though he was very anxious that His -bJxcellency
the viceroy should not think him in any way discourteous and
though he expressed himself willing to go to j^ew Bekhi if
His Majesty the King and His Excellency the v lceroy so wished,
he said that heviould prefer to go to London for the King is
the "King of Kings" and London is "the Mother of the world 11 •
He ofterj says, and repeated today, that on the occasion of his
last visit to the United kingdom His la aj esty grociously said
that he hiped that he (the Shaikh^ would come to England again
and that he feels that he should do so*
the investiture nvhioh will be held at ^ew Delhi on the 6th
March 1936«
Yours sincerely
SD« G. LOCH.
i Honourable
Lieutenant Colonel T*G # Fowle f C.B.E.,
Political Residentnin the Persian ^ilf
BUSHIRE #