ملف ١٩٢٢/٥٢٢، جزء ٧ "البحرين: المطالبة الفارسية بالسيادة عليها؛ مفاوضات المعاهدة الفارسية ١٩٢٩-١٩٣٠" [و‎‎٣‎٠‎٦] (١١٢٦/٦١٦)

enjoyed at some time full independence, a presumption which
history rejects at once or it must he proved that Persia
relinquished her right of sovereignty over Bahrein in virtue
of a treaty.
Persian history shows many instances of local rehellions
of Khans or Sheikhs against the Central Government - rehellions
which have always "been definitely put down - hut does a local
rehellion sanction the process hy which a foreign power can
enter into tre&tf with such rebel chieftains ? Moreover
according to international law no Government can he asked, while
in a state of peace, to give up its right of government over a
part of its territory solely and simply on the grounds of
difference in language, customs or race or of separation from
the Mother country hy sea. These facts can least of all he
denied hy Great Britain.
Extract from the Shafagh-i-Surkh 1590.
The Editor comments again on Bahrein in the leading
article. The Editor asks whether Bahrein is claimed to he an
independent state or a colony of England. If it is independent,
why does the British Government intervene in a dispute between
Persia and Bahrein and why does the British Consul—oral in
the Gulf interfere in the appointment or supersession of the
local Sheikhs or why do the British authorities interfere in
all the educational, municipal and police concerns o± the
islands ?
The policy adopted hy the British Government in he Gulf
in regard to these sheikhs is ridiculous and comical oeyond
comparison. Commercial relations are first created with the
Sheikhs; the brothers or the sons of die old sheikh are then
instigated against their ruling kinsman with the result that
the