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28. AMERICAN CONSULATE.

Mr. Parker T. Hart and Mr. Clarence
McIntosh were U.S. Vice-Consuls at Dhahran at
the beginning of the year under review.
In May Mr. Parker T. Hart left for the
United States on leave and was succeeded in turn
by Mr. William L. Sands and Mr. Walter W. Dirge, Jr.

In December Mr. Parker T. Hart returned
to Dhahran. Mr. Clarence McIntosh was Vice-Consul
until the end of the year.
The State Department has attached growing
importance to their consular post at Dhahran. In
January Oman (Muscat), Qatar, and the Trucial Coast
were Informally included within the district of
Dhahran Consulate and In December Mr. Parker T. Hart
returned to Dhahran as the United States Consul.
. A close and friendly liaison was main­
tained between this Agency and the Dhahran Consulate
Ih all matters of common Interest. In January
Mr. Parker T. Hart accompanied Major T. Hickinbotham,
C.I.E., O.3.E., the political Agent, Bahrain, on a
tour of the Trucial Coast, in June and July
Mr. William L. Sands attended as a spectator at the
trial of an American employee of the Bahrain Petroleum
Company who was sentenced to one year»s simple
imprisonment by the Agency Courts.