(RCSD) OOT - One for the Dunes lovers

There is a justly famous despatch from HM Consul-General in Muscat to
the UK Home Secretary in 1960, concerning The National Salute to the
Sultan of Muscat and Oman, reproduced in Diplomatic Bag, by John Ure
(John Murray, London 1994). It's a bit long to post, and certainly to
retype, here, but if you can't find the book, you're welcome to email
me, and I'll send a scan of the relevant pages. Guaranteed to lighten
the darkest hours ...

What? you have no OCR? tch! tch!
The topic is not "off topic" either.
Collecting is all relative,
The Newsgroup is discuss-collecting stamps
There is no definition as to what stamps we may wish to collect,

here, someone thinks anyone whom collects little pieces of
perforated paper is bonkers. (1863)
http://cjoint.com/data/dvfO1CqX0o.htm

.....BTW yes please, could you email me the relevant pages please


The British-Australian Society To Arrest the Redefinition of Dune Stamps



"Asia-translation" wrote in message
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There is a justly famous despatch from HM Consul-General in Muscat to
the UK Home Secretary in 1960, concerning The National Salute to the
Sultan of Muscat and Oman, reproduced in Diplomatic Bag, by John Ure
(John Murray, London 1994). It's a bit long to post, and certainly to
retype, here, but if you can't find the book, you're welcome to email
me, and I'll send a scan of the relevant pages. Guaranteed to lighten
the darkest hours ...

On Mar 21, 12:15 am, Asia-translation
wrote:
There is a justly famous despatch from HM Consul-General in Muscat to
the UK Home Secretary in 1960, concerning The National Salute to the
Sultan of Muscat and Oman, reproduced in Diplomatic Bag, by John Ure
(John Murray, London 1994). It's a bit long to post, and certainly to
retype, here, but if you can't find the book, you're welcome to email
me, and I'll send a scan of the relevant pages. Guaranteed to lighten
the darkest hours ...


Dear Sir Tony of the Antipodes ans Sir Rodney of Travanco

Today I was rummaging about in an old chest , replete with the
1925 issue of Yemen, and much to my amazement I uncovered
some old correspondence that may interest you.

Letter sent by the Consul General Muscat to the Earl of Home, then
Foreign Secretary.

August 17th, 1960


My Lord,

I have the honour to refer to Your Lordship's despatch No. 8 of the
29th July, in which you requested me to ascertain, on behalf of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, whether the Bb clarinet music,
enclosed with your despatch, was a correct and up to date rendering of
the National Salute to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman.

2. I have encountered certain difficulties in fulfilling this
request. The Sultanate has not since about 1937 possessed a band.
None of the Sultan's subjects, so far as I am aware can read music,
which the majority of them regard as sinful. The Manager of the
British Bank of the Middle East, who can, does not possess a
clarinet. Even if he did, the dignitary who in the absence of the
Sultan is the recipient of ceremonial honours and who might be
presumed to recognize the tune, is somewhat deaf.

3. Fortunately I have been able to obtain, and now enclose, a
gramophone record which has on one side a rendering by a British
military band of the "Salutation and March to His Highness the Sultan
of Muscat and Oman". The first part of
this tune, which was composed by the Bandmaster of a cruiser in about
1932, bears close resemblance to a pianoforte rendering by the Bank
Manager of the clarinet music enclosed with Your Lordship's despatch.
The only further
testimony I can obtain of the correctness of this music is that it
reminds a resident of long standing of a tune, once played by the long
defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat Infantry, and known at the
time to non-commissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote
the vernacular) "Gawd strike the Sultan Blind".

4. I am informed by the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs that there
are now no occasions on which the "Salutation" is officially played.
The last occasion on which it is known to have been played at all was
on a gramophone at an evening reception given by the Military
Secretary in honour of the Sultan, who inadvertently sat on the record
afterwards and broke it. I consider however that an occasion might
arise when the playing might be appropriate; if for example, the
Sultan were to go aboard a cruiser which carried a band. I am
proposing to call on His Highness shortly at Salalah on his return
from London, and shall make further enquiries as to his wishes on the
matter.

5. I am sending a copy of this despatch, without enclosure to His
Excellency the Political Resident at Bahrain.

I have the honour to be Sir,
(J.F.S. Phillips)
Muscat's Consul General

Marvelous,
thanks Blair
refreshingly open for a glimpse behind detente.
Reminds me of two things, the argument I once read on
an Indian states "how many shots" gun salute was proper,
and the words we sailors put to that whistle music that accompanied
the film "Bridge on the river Kwai"
"Hitler, he only had one ...., Goering, had two but they were small,
Himmler, had something similar, but poor old Goebbels had no ....s at all.
You would hear the song underneath the music whenever we marched
on parade.
Don't know what happened to Upside down Tony, he must be out on bivouac.
or put on the carpet for posting OT.



"Blair (TC)" wrote in message
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On Mar 21, 12:15 am, Asia-translation
wrote:
There is a justly famous despatch from HM Consul-General in Muscat to
the UK Home Secretary in 1960, concerning The National Salute to the
Sultan of Muscat and Oman, reproduced in Diplomatic Bag, by John Ure
(John Murray, London 1994). It's a bit long to post, and certainly to
retype, here, but if you can't find the book, you're welcome to email
me, and I'll send a scan of the relevant pages. Guaranteed to lighten
the darkest hours ...


Dear Sir Tony of the Antipodes ans Sir Rodney of Travanco

Today I was rummaging about in an old chest , replete with the
1925 issue of Yemen, and much to my amazement I uncovered
some old correspondence that may interest you.

Letter sent by the Consul General Muscat to the Earl of Home, then
Foreign Secretary.

August 17th, 1960


My Lord,

I have the honour to refer to Your Lordship's despatch No. 8 of the
29th July, in which you requested me to ascertain, on behalf of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, whether the Bb clarinet music,
enclosed with your despatch, was a correct and up to date rendering of
the National Salute to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman.

2. I have encountered certain difficulties in fulfilling this
request. The Sultanate has not since about 1937 possessed a band.
None of the Sultan's subjects, so far as I am aware can read music,
which the majority of them regard as sinful. The Manager of the
British Bank of the Middle East, who can, does not possess a
clarinet. Even if he did, the dignitary who in the absence of the
Sultan is the recipient of ceremonial honours and who might be
presumed to recognize the tune, is somewhat deaf.

3. Fortunately I have been able to obtain, and now enclose, a
gramophone record which has on one side a rendering by a British
military band of the "Salutation and March to His Highness the Sultan
of Muscat and Oman". The first part of
this tune, which was composed by the Bandmaster of a cruiser in about
1932, bears close resemblance to a pianoforte rendering by the Bank
Manager of the clarinet music enclosed with Your Lordship's despatch.
The only further
testimony I can obtain of the correctness of this music is that it
reminds a resident of long standing of a tune, once played by the long
defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat Infantry, and known at the
time to non-commissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote
the vernacular) "Gawd strike the Sultan Blind".

4. I am informed by the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs that there
are now no occasions on which the "Salutation" is officially played.
The last occasion on which it is known to have been played at all was
on a gramophone at an evening reception given by the Military
Secretary in honour of the Sultan, who inadvertently sat on the record
afterwards and broke it. I consider however that an occasion might
arise when the playing might be appropriate; if for example, the
Sultan were to go aboard a cruiser which carried a band. I am
proposing to call on His Highness shortly at Salalah on his return
from London, and shall make further enquiries as to his wishes on the
matter.

5. I am sending a copy of this despatch, without enclosure to His
Excellency the Political Resident at Bahrain.

I have the honour to be Sir,
(J.F.S. Phillips)
Muscat's Consul General

On Mar 22, 11:11 am, "rodney" wrote:
Marvelous,
thanks Blair
refreshingly open for a glimpse behind detente.
Reminds me of two things, the argument I once read on
an Indian states "how many shots" gun salute was proper,
and the words we sailors put to that whistle music that accompanied
the film "Bridge on the river Kwai"
"Hitler, he only had one ...., Goering, had two but they were small,
Himmler, had something similar, but poor old Goebbels had no ....s at all.
You would hear the song underneath the music whenever we marched
on parade.
Don't know what happened to Upside down Tony, he must be out on bivouac.
or put on the carpet for posting OT.

"Blair (TC)" wrote in message

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On Mar 21, 12:15 am, Asia-translation
wrote:
There is a justly famous despatch from HM Consul-General in Muscat to
the UK Home Secretary in 1960, concerning The National Salute to the
Sultan of Muscat and Oman, reproduced in Diplomatic Bag, by John Ure
(John Murray, London 1994). It's a bit long to post, and certainly to
retype, here, but if you can't find the book, you're welcome to email
me, and I'll send a scan of the relevant pages. Guaranteed to lighten
the darkest hours ...

Dear Sir Tony of the Antipodes ans Sir Rodney of Travanco

Today I was rummaging about in an old chest , replete with the
1925 issue of Yemen, and much to my amazement I uncovered
some old correspondence that may interest you.

Letter sent by the Consul General Muscat to the Earl of Home, then
Foreign Secretary.

August 17th, 1960

My Lord,

I have the honour to refer to Your Lordship's despatch No. 8 of the
29th July, in which you requested me to ascertain, on behalf of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, whether the Bb clarinet music,
enclosed with your despatch, was a correct and up to date rendering of
the National Salute to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman.

2. I have encountered certain difficulties in fulfilling this
request. The Sultanate has not since about 1937 possessed a band.
None of the Sultan's subjects, so far as I am aware can read music,
which the majority of them regard as sinful. The Manager of the
British Bank of the Middle East, who can, does not possess a
clarinet. Even if he did, the dignitary who in the absence of the
Sultan is the recipient of ceremonial honours and who might be
presumed to recognize the tune, is somewhat deaf.

3. Fortunately I have been able to obtain, and now enclose, a
gramophone record which has on one side a rendering by a British
military band of the "Salutation and March to His Highness the Sultan
of Muscat and Oman". The first part of
this tune, which was composed by the Bandmaster of a cruiser in about
1932, bears close resemblance to a pianoforte rendering by the Bank
Manager of the clarinet music enclosed with Your Lordship's despatch.
The only further
testimony I can obtain of the correctness of this music is that it
reminds a resident of long standing of a tune, once played by the long
defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat Infantry, and known at the
time to non-commissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote
the vernacular) "Gawd strike the Sultan Blind".

4. I am informed by the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs that there
are now no occasions on which the "Salutation" is officially played.
The last occasion on which it is known to have been played at all was
on a gramophone at an evening reception given by the Military
Secretary in honour of the Sultan, who inadvertently sat on the record
afterwards and broke it. I consider however that an occasion might
arise when the playing might be appropriate; if for example, the
Sultan were to go aboard a cruiser which carried a band. I am
proposing to call on His Highness shortly at Salalah on his return
from London, and shall make further enquiries as to his wishes on the
matter.

5. I am sending a copy of this despatch, without enclosure to His
Excellency the Political Resident at Bahrain.

I have the honour to be Sir,
(J.F.S. Phillips)
Muscat's Consul General

Mercifully, Blair has saved me the effort of OCRing, or worse,
retyping ...

Anthony of the Antipathies