"ثورة مسقط، في الفترة من أبريل ١٩١٧ إلى يناير ١٩١٨، واستُأنفت في الفترة من أبريل ١٩٢٠ إلى أكتوبر ١٩٢٠" [و‎‎٢‎٤] (٥٥٨/٥٦)

T'ae conditions ia wever are auh timt if not ajended
Sultans financial conditions must soon land him in bankrupcy
and iiis administration, or to© want of it makes him more and
mere disliked as a ruler.
In order to terminate x-ne present state of affairs--
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& is necessary to make %ae one side eee that getcrm of Govt
is necessary and tns other side realise that submission to the .
ruler is the only course possible essH that it is inevitable.
I have said that the Sultan knows that without our
assistanoe his p sition is impossible. Hot only does he know it
but all the world of Musoat and Oman as well. It should not
then be difficult to get him to agree to reasonable terms.
fhere remaia^ the tribes to be ci alt with and it is
evident that argument will need to be backed by force before
trxey will give up taeir present advantageous position. We have he
however to our nand a weapon woioh will not r04aire the use of
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m single soldier.
fae life of Oman d pends uioa the axteiiial world.
Tae rice and tae grain it imports, the clothes It wears and
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the wood from which it makes its boats ae imported from India,
while the dates , pomgran&tes and limes It exports are Sold to Er
British subjects && desrmtohed to British, poits. * —
It would only be necessary to declare a blockade, *
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blockade which would not need a ship to ^pif roe it, beyond the
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saltans own vessel, to bring the tribes to their senses.
I am 3ome to the ffiain p int of my letter.
To hope to keep the tribes to arjy agreement they might
make and to make the Sultan li^prove his government British
influence would be necessary, aad tis can nly be obtaired by
seme form of JProteoturate or perstanent treaty.
It is aoubtful whetiaer any oriental country oan rule
itself, fhe statement woioa we recently ma., to the United
States of America with . ef ere gee to turkey in L irope Is equally
true of all oriental states in Asia, fhey are unfit and unable tq I
govern themselves In oontact with European powers.