'ملف رقم 19/165 III (C 24) الإصلاحات في البحرين' [و‎‎٣‎٧] (٤٢٦/٨٢)

thing he could to h«lp. tiomad suggested that he might m? ke his views
publicly Imown by n denial in the press o the lies which his fermer
friends hava befn circulating,"rhis he undertoez; to do.
Accordingly a f«w dJp .ys later Abdull? reported that he lu-d first seen his
Mother t who was thoroughly frightened & wanted to retire to Mecca to end
har days.when fhey saw .ihaik he said he would not let h* r ge A would
not ,©" his own accord^ leave Bahrain.rie upbraided Abdulla ^ slM^ that he
had Coined Hamad against him^ it wj s no ^ood his trying to frighten him.
urovemmant knew him well <5: would not do anything to him but , on tn c jri-
trary, it would not be long befor they deported him ^ Haiaa' together I
-ckbdulla "tried to persuade him to see reason ^ to ta.:e his a How? nee,but
he refused point blank & said he wanted no advise either from him ,©r
from tiamad or the • However 1 think that iibdu la 'c his Mother \\ere
considerably affected.i'ho Old Shaik is now absolutely mulish & convinced
that he is a wronged men ; who will eventually convince LrOvemment & bo
re-instated a a irtuler. Abdulla knows (^uite well that this is not possible.
I hope that under the circumstances you will approve of the line taken,
I think that had I gone to the ihaik direct ,he might have been rude,A
possibly have talked about the incident which would have caused di^ficultjr
It is also difficult to make him understand anything n^w,* I think that
Abdulla genuinely did his best to influence him. If Abdulla 1 cts u^) to
his promise to Hamad & 'he appears to be ready to,& writes a lementi
over his own name, it should at least have the effect of making others
ioubtful of his assistance in futthrr intrigues against Hamad.
.bt Colonel A.^.xrevor 0 ^.3. 1 • C.I..K1
Resident in the Persian Uulf.
Yours sine