مجموعة ٣٠ / ٩٣ "وضع رعايا البحرين في بلاد فارس والرعايا الفارسيين في البحرين." [و‎‎١‎٢‎٣] (٤٠٢/٢٥٠)

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In any further communication
- on this subject, please quote
No. E 8632/1561/91
and address—
not to any person by name,
but to—
“ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
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Fobeign Office,
S.l.l.
9th l;la-, 1934.
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’.'itn reference to India Office let'
569/34 of the £5th April regard!
ar&ing the ill treatment
hrainis in Persia, I am directed by Secretary sir John
Simon to request you to inform Secretary sir Samuel Hoare
that he shares the views expressed-by the government of India
as to the impracticability either of retaliation on Persians
at Bahrain, or of a threat of publicity similar to that made
to the Persian Government when in 1931 a British Indian
subject was flogged by the military authorities at Char bar.
A preliminary re-examination of the whole question has,
however, led him to doubt whether His Majesty’s Government
would be justified in protesting to une Pe _ si an A-oveiniiienu,
even in general terms, regarding the recent activities of uhe
local Persian authorities; and in view of the fact that the
protest would he most unlikely to benefit these Bahrainis in
practice, he is of the opinion that before he issues any
, 4 ..^-, 4 -n qdr -Repurald Hoare the question of the
further instructions to bin Keginaxu
-i ,„ pnr ,* r6 o to be carefully reconsidered,
status of these people requires
2 . -Ihenever this question has arisen in recent years
it has apparently been generally assumed that his Majesty's
. , . n asDousing the cause of
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Government were legaxxj J
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the Baiirainis resident m h
, - -m* Phiefl^ if not wholly to
these Bahrainis were attnou^Dr
• .rivi unvernment ’ s claim to
.u the Persian Oovcrnmcnu
the dispute rega-d..n a .. imder
. - g U p-a:ested in your lettei umaer
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Phe Under-Secretary of State,
India Office.
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