BRITISH RESIDENCY, B I Despatch No. 37 C (1085/2/20/56) BAHRAIN. April 20, 1956. CONFIDENTIAL Sir, I have the honour to report on the action taken to announce certain internal Trucial States frontiers in accordance with the instructions contained in Mr. Riches' letter EA 10812/9 of the 10th of January, 1956, to me. 2. Although Mr. Walker could not be made available until the middle of March and this left a bare four weeks before the onset of Ramadan and the subsequent beginning of the hot weather, I felt it important to use this earliest possible opportunity of announcing the settlement of all those frontiers which were unlikely to cause ill feeling among the Trucial Coast Rulers, and I further believed that it would greatly help future settlement iſ, where a district had been proved to belong to a certain Ruler, we should announce his sovereignty in it even if we did not know its precise limits - thus reducing the area under dispute wherever possible. I therefore sent Mr. Walker down to the Trucial States on the 17th of March to commence the announcements of all those decisions mentioned in categories No. 1 and No. 2 (paragraphs 14 and 15) of his frontier report, with the exception of those starred in category 2. Even so, I instructed him to defer the /announcement The Right Honourable Selwyn Lloyd, C.B.E., M.P., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office, London S.W. 1.
