The sheikhdom was abolished and the provincial authority took full control of regional affairs.
This country has been reduced to the status of a banana republic or a sheikhdom in the 19th century.
We furthermore have the position in which neither the nationalists nor the sheikhdoms can claim to speak for the majority of the population.
Presumably, it is to make quite sure that the sheikhs remain in power in the sheikhdoms.
Here we are now facing independence within a few months, and yet not one sheikhdom has any form of franchise whatever.
I am sure that those rich sheikhdoms would be prepared to associate themselves with a plan of that sort.
That is what the sheikhdoms have got to do.
Naturally, the sheikhdoms wanted to reinsure, and they have reinsured.
