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Corporation, Air Vice Marshal Sir Victor Tair, C.B.,
O.B.E., Assistant Director General (Technical) and
Mr. R.D. Stewart, Assistant Director General (Com­
mercial), passed through Bahrain en route to India.
June
(viii) On the 29th/the Hon’ble Mr. A.V. Alexander,
First Lord of the Admiralty, arrived by air from India
and left the next morning en route to the United Kingdom.
He stayed with Commodore I.W. Whitehom, R.N., Senior
Naval Officer, Persian Gulf. The Political Agent,
Captain Ranee and Mr. C.J. Pelly were invited to meet
Mr. Alexander at the Naval Base on the evening of the
29th.
(ix) On the 30th June Lord Pethick Lawrence, Secretary
of State for India, and Sir Stafford Cripps, president
of the Board of Trade, accompanied by Sir William Croft
and the staff of the cabinet Mission to India, arrived by
air from India and left the same day. The whole party
were met at the Marine Air Base by the political Agent,the
Secretary to the political Resident and Captain Ranee,
from Y/here they proceeded to the Agency. The Ruler of
Bahrain, accompanied by shaikh Abdullah bin Isa and the
Adviser to the Bahrain Government, called on Lord Pethick
Lawrence and Sir Stafford Cripps at the Agency. The Shaikh
displayed a lamentable lack of interest in the Cabinet
Mission’s work, and beyond expressing a pious hope that
everything was "all right" in India and that the various
communities were not fighting contented himself with
a'sking the Secretary of state repeatedly to visit his
Island which he described in glowing terms.
(x) On the 30th August Mr. G.V. Allen, United States x
Ambassador, Tehran, accompanied by his Commercial Attache,
and two other members of his staff arrived in Bahrain by
air from Dhahran. The party, accompanied by Mr. Parker
T« Hart, United States consul at Dhahran, called on the
Hon'ble the Political Resident at jufair and on the poli­
tical Agent at the Agency. They returned to Dhahran the
I same day.
(xi) On the 15th October, Air Vice Marshal S.C. Strafford,
C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., Air Officer Commanding, ’Iraq, arrived
in Bahrain. He left the following day for Habbaniyah.
(xii) Maulvi J.D. Shams, H.A., imam of the Woking Mosque,
arrived in Bahrain by B.O.A.C. ’plane on the 7th October
en route to India. His aircraft developed engine trouble
and it was not until the morning of the 10th that he was
able to resume his Journey. During his stay the Shaikh
entertained him to dinner at Rafaa* and Mr. Hafiz, the
Agency’s Indian Assistant, showed him round Bahrain.
(xiii) Sir Henry Holland, K.C.I.E., of the C.M.S. at
Quetta arrived by air on the 17th November and left on
the 25th.
29. LOCAL AFFATRS.

(i) Cinema*
The local cinema which had been long closed was
taken over by Ibrahim bin Hijris, a British Indian subject,
/and...........