"ملف ٦/ ١ المصالح الأجنبية: الإرسالية الأمريكية في مسقط" [و‎‎٥‎٢] (٢١٠/١٠٣)

tho question of taking steps
one.
on His Highness’s
behalf
6^
a) delioate
In view of all the facts I am of opinion that an effort
should be made to effect a friendly compromise between the
Sultan and the United States Government on the lines laid down
in the penultimate paragraph of the India Office letter but as
the negotiations with regard to this question have hitherto
been carried on by Your Excellency and the Secretary of State
of the United States it seems preferable that the suggested
verbal explanation should be made by you to him rather than
as proposed by me to the United States Ambassador in London.
I have accordingly to request Your Excellency to make to Mr.
Knox a verbal communication in the sense proposed by the India
Office and to explain to him that His Majesty’s Government are
in ktak the fullest sympathy with American Missionary enterprise
at Muscat but that feeling that Dr. Thoms in opening a dispensary
at Mutra in opposition to the Sultan’s wishes is hindering rather
than advancing that work, they have thought it right to approach
the United States Government with regard to the question.
I am etc.
(sd) Omitted.