الوضع السياسي الداخلي في مسقط وعُمان p.95

FO 371/120543 1956
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2. I discussed with him the question of the
accuracy of the alleged text of the Agreement
of Sib. He has pointed out what I had not
realised - that the pamphlet does not purport
to quote the whole text of the Agreement.
It quotes the two sets of four conditions.
The phrase described in Mr. Riches para.3(a
above is not on the face of it necessarily a
deliberate forgery, although it has been
interpolated in such a manner that the casual
reader might take it to be part of the text:
it could possibly be regarded as an
"explanation".

3. This makes it perhaps more difficult for
us to justify the publication of the whole
text. We cannot, after all, point to a
complete alleged text which has already been
published. Furthermore the charge of
"forgery" is a little less blindingly obvious
than we had hoped.

(A. R. Walmsley)
August 7, 1957.

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