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thee# evil looking birds, but I declined with thanke.
13. At Bahrain I found tihaikh Hamad all the better for the
colder weather, but did not have time to sea very much of him.
I was shown over the properties of the Bahrain Petroleum
Ooirjpany and wag much irapyessed with the efficiency of their
organization# WeightEian expXaineo. to ise the &nti«-sabotage
measures which hare been carried out, largely at his insistence,
and v/hich are very thorough and complete. The pearl aarlcet
is looking up at long last, and Abdur Rahman ^usaibi is off
to Hyderabad where he hopes to sell some of his fine pearls
to the Mjsam.
14. The Shaikh of Kuwait had been detained by Ibn ^aud,
arid only returned after I had left, but I had seen a good
deal of him before commencing the tour. He has not yet
settled down after the troubles of last year, and Galloway
has had a difficult row to hoe. Partly as a result of the
increase in the number of Europeans, and partly as a result
of the Palestine propaganda, people appear to me on the whole
to be less civil and definitely less friendly in Bahrain and
Kuwait than they were 8 or 10 years ago. It is surprising
to find that even so small a Tewish community as that of
Bahrain is subject to some persecution, and Palestine will
give anti -British elements a convenient peg on which to ha.ng
their attacks for some time to come.
15. Howes' appointment hee been very auooeseful, and he ^
has succeeded in overcoming the boycott with which the iru^id,!
Shaikhs first greeted him. They are all convinced that he is
the thin-end -of-the-wedge, but he has managed to gain their
confidence and is expecting shortly to make a trip to B^faimi,
/ which i