مجموعة ٥٩/٣٠ "الخليج الفارسي. تأسيس البحرية الفارسية، إلخ" [و‎‎١‎٢‎١] (٦٢٤/٢٤٢)

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completed me In «iob#r and th» other la r )«a«islM»r of Unit
yMr f oom in a different **to$ory» thilo thoro la a
ralaon d 9 ^lr# far tha notar vc*»elc $ it la difficult to
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£unbo*ta. nwy ar« of raapootabXo «u«t about la 0 too*
'nAtrlquoa * ( that la to •ay auffiaioatly largo to omiao
about the Oulf, a ad to eroaa ooor to tbo Arab abore* It la
tlila latt«r poaalblllty ablob may raise the laauoa already
alludod to* naaro la aa l«m loot botooea Arabs »»»»«
roraiana, and Farslan guabcata orulalag la, or Juat out-
alda, Arab gatora, with epiortualtloa of haraaslag Arab
dbooa oa various protaata, or of landtag their erova an
outlying Arab Islands, eta*, will probably sooner or later
bring about rogrottabla inelctonts. fbora will ba all tba
noro reaaoa - from the .aralan point of wiew • for the
^ua'roata to eneroaoh oa Arab a At era alnae the Foralaa
Oovoramont atlU ralae a claim to tho torritery of ot
loaat one Arab itato, Bahrain, while tho faat that the
offleers of the gnaboata will bo aatioaala of a Mropoaa
i-ower, Italy, will act leaaea the dallaaoy of any
altuatlona whieh may arise.
C. Haar* la of course tho possibility that tho gunboats
may not motorlollow toy default of payment by the Paralan
aowermeot, or that If th^r do materialise, they any suffer
the fate of tho eld lorelan Kawy, which - as represented by
tho ‘foroopello* - now lies rotting In Suahire harbour,
but X do not think we eon count on thla, and It would, I
venture to ssugroet, be advisable to consider now what our
attitude should bo la the «v««t of the Persian Navy
bosoming a fleet In being** oa» obvious method of
control