Word: bahrein
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...Shining Example. By the early 1950s, Belgrave's success in Bahrein had made him one of the most influential and respected men in the Middle East and Bahrein a shining example of what Western techniques and money could do for backward nations. In gratitude for Belgrave's achievements, Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1952. Sheik Hamed's son and successor, Sulman bin Hamed al Khalifah, told a visitor: "We consider Mr. Belgrave to be not an Englishman but a Bahreini. He is my hand...
...very successes Sir Charles had conjured up a genie he could not control. Soon after World War II, Bahrein's emerging middle class, merchants who owed much of their prosperity to Belgrave, began to agitate for "democratic reforms." The Sheik, on Belgrave's advice, refused to make any major concessions...
...owed their education to Belgrave, they launched an all-out campaign against Sir Charles and his lady. (In the best paternalistic tradition, Lady Belgrave ran the school system herself, paid teachers personally instead of through a central agency.) Last March, when Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made a visit to Bahrein, he was stoned by crowds shouting "Down with Britain." A few days later, five days of strikes and rioting broke out over Belgrave, and eleven were killed...
...Correspondent." Outraged by these disorders, Sheik Sulman not only refused to fire Belgrave but exiled the reformist leader, Abdul Rahman Bakir−who promptly took refuge in Nasser's Cairo. The British Foreign Office, however, disturbed by Egypt's growing influence in Bahrein and anxious to avoid another blow to British prestige like Jordan's unseemly ouster of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb (TIME, March 12), pressured Belgrave to get out while the getting was good. Last week, in a brief dispatch from "our own correspondent in Bahrein," the London Times reported that "the Sheik of Bahrein...
Among the Arabs to whom he had devoted his life, some conceded that "Belgrave was a good man and did much for Bahrein," and then hastened to add "The world has changed, and today everyone wants independence." One Egyptian put it more drastically: "Belgrave was one of those so-called Arab experts. Just as Glubb went, so he's gone, and so will go all of them. Nobody's impressed any more with Englishmen who can recite the Koran. The hell with them...