Registry
No.EA 1946/2.
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.
February, 1953.
Top Secret.
Secrexx
Confidential.
Restricted
Openx
CONFIDENTIAL.
One of the ways in which we have not yet
Treasury.
been able to combat the threat presented
by the presence of Turki in Buraimi is in
the hospitality dispensed to casual callers:
$heikhs from the interior and so on. 13. To the
Arab, generosity at once implies prestige.
It would be deplorable if our standing were
impaired in the eyes of visiting Sheikhs
by the inability of our officers to provide
occasionel
au that are
the small gifts which are pocasionally
requirea.
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN.
From:
2. The Bahrain Residency's Mission Fund
already contains provision for such gifts
to $heikhs. We are, however, informed,
that the limited amounts available have
licen!
resulted in our being unable to give
customary "douceurs' as they would like, and
that some $heikhs have actually left off
visiting our representatives.
4. The Political Resident has requested
that sums of £100should be provided for the
Consul-General at Muscat and the Political
officer, Trucial Coast, for the financial
year 1953-4, in addition to the recent
hitherto
amounts made available under the Mission Fund,
lach
which amounts * £750 this year for the
his request.
These payments are not
confidential in the sense in which, for
example, tribal subsidies would be, and it
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