'ملف رقم 19/163 I (C 33) العلاقات بين ابن سعود وشيخ البحرين' أنشطة المبعوث النجدي في البحرين' [و‎‎٢‎٩] (٤١٢/٦٣)

British Residency and Consul at e-G- enoral,
Eusl ire, l5tli Jime 192^.
To
His Highness Sheikh Sir Abdul Aziz "ben Abdor Rahman
A1 Faisal As S-ud, G tt C.I .E 0 ,
Sultan of No^a and Dependencies*
A^Ca
Your Highness,
I ht ve the pleasure to inform yrrj. that, at the
moment of writing, I am looking forward to the visit of Your
ill hness* o^cr tcry, Gaiyed Hi-shem, who is expected at the
Residency in about half an hour.
I have myself only returned to Eushire two days
3 s L ound myself obliged to -oroceed to Kuwait and thence
to ] ohammerah and i^hwaz •
'■ - i travelling h^s made it impossible up to
the present to acquaint Your Highness with Events that have
occurred at Bahrain since my letter to Your Highness of the
18th -ay. How that I am at comparative lelsrure I hasten to
j. iorm Your HiThness of theae mattere which I feel sure must
h of grc.it in -orest to you. I am the more inclined to do
this, as I have the advantage of the presence of Your Highness
Confidential secretary «hO will, no/ doubt, transfer my lettori
to Your Highness hy sure and speedy means.
t
Per : '0\; l-ie past, affairs in Bahrain had been
unsatisfactory, sheikh Isa's increasing age had made it
impossible for him to exercise that vigilant supervision over
aff. irs, "ich is so necessary in an Arab state 1 , and, owin,^
to t is vreaimess, m^ (irresponsible) petty tyrants had been
5ro ' Tin S 1 " B ahr a in, criiefly irresponsible members of the
al Khalifa family and the Be^^rinah were grievously pppressed
by them, iiore than this, the increased intelligence of the'
lov7or classes, who are now constant readers of newspapers and
al so