5 invitation being issued to him. I should warn you that he/unlikely to condescend to defend his case on Oman (which he is inclined to consider nobody else's business), and that the chances of the Sultanate applying for membership of the Arab League during his reign are by no means bright. Nevertheless the Sultan's strong personality and shrewdness tends to leave a good impression those who meet him provided that their views are not very avant garde. We would also · hope that by the time any such visit took place, we should have been able to provide you with some more useful material to discredit, by contrast, the Oman rebels NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN. Talib, Ghalib, Sulaiman and Company) - who are, if anything, even more feudal than the Sultan, in Amman.
