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side of the tennis court about twenty feet high which makes it much nicer and a screen from the road.
Nobody else has such greenness on their court. Later on I hope we shall have flowers along the side as well.

Friday [26 September]

Bank in the morning, only Parke and the doctor there so only one four for bridge. Drove out in the
afternoon. In the evening Rosenthal came to call, I liked him. He looks less like a Jew than the other ones
and is very knowledgeable about all sorts of things. He told a story about a man called Thomas Brown, an
Englishman with a German mother who used to be with the German company who had an agency in Bahrain.
At the beginning of the war he went over to the Germans and was in the German army, or secret service, and
probably very useful to them. Afterwards Rosenthal met him in Europe, in Berlin, as he was not allowed to
enter France, and had dealings with him about buying some Russian jewels, but when Rosenthal went with
him to get a pass for Russia they looked him up in their register and found that his brother had written a lot
of anti Bolshie articles in the French papers so he was not given a passport and never went to Russia. He
talked very interestingly about conditions in France, taxation etc.

Saturday [27 September]

Court. Sulman was away with the Shaikh at his little island so Mohamed Ali came, he seemed a little more
sensible than usual. We got done very early. A lot of people didnt turn up so we didnt take their cases.
Motored in the afternoon.

Sunday 28th September