"ملف 19/209 I (C 73) رغبة الأسرة الحاكمة البحرينية في زيارة دول أخرى" [و‎‎٢‎٦] (٤٣٤/٦٨)

Confidential.
D.0•Ho;C/63-1.a/ll.
9th ^
vr ill you kindly refer to the correspondence enblng
with your letter N o: 74_s dated the 1st February 1926 about
Shaikh Sir Hamad's wish to go to London for his Investiture.
2, During an informal visit to ^akhir on the 5th r ebruary
the Shaikh privately brought up the question of his proposed
visit to England and asked me whether it would be appropriate
for him to go during the period of mourning for His late Majesty
and also whether, apart from official functions, there would
be any social events, such as races and so on,
?. I said that I thought that the best thing that I could
do would be to make enquiries through you and let him know,
4. It is possible that you may wish to consider the
following point. In a recent broadcast it was stated that the
King would hold a Darbar in India after the Coronation, ^t may
be that Government will consider it appropriate to ask the
Shaikh to attend either the Coronation in London or the Darbar
in India. In some ways the latter would seem, at first sight,
the more suitable, but (as we said in a recent informal conver
sation) an awkward question of precedence might arise^
5. Before other nations we maintain for good reasons of
our own, the independent sovereignty of the ^uler of Bahrain
(and of Kuwait). If other nations see that in the presence of
the King we give them place below dependent rulers, we lay our
facade policy open to a shrewd blow. If we give them place as
/independent
Honourable
Lieutenant-Colonel T.C.Fowle, C.B.E.,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Bushire.