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33. IOR/R/15/2/502, Marais to Weightman, 6 April 1940, and related correspondence. On
the role in Baghdad of Marais, a South African who was ‘neither English by appearance
nor breeding’, see Pirie (note 16), p. 164; for the bar in the Rest House in 1940, see the
photo in the British Library’s Untold Lives blog, 15 November 2015, http://blogs.bl.uk/
untoldlives/2015/11/flying-over-the-liners-passenger-aviation-across-the-gulf-during-
the-1930s.html (accessed 7.10.2017).

34. IOR/R/15/2/312, Bahrain Intelligence Reports, 15–31 March 1935.

35. For Lindbergh, IOR/R/15/2/298, Annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency
for 1937; for Earhart, IOR/R/15/2/1677, W.R. Rayner, India Office, to Government of
India, Dept. of Industries and Labour, 15 December 1936.

36. IOR/R/15/2/539, PR Bahrain to W.C. Janes, Sharjah, 1 March 1936.

37. Imperial Outpost, p. 94; IOR/R/15/2/525, A.J. Edden, Foreign Office to F.A.K. Harrison,
India Office, 7 September 1946.

38. Imperial Outpost, pp. 6-11. The films they commissioned show little of the passenger
experience, however; see Stanley-Price, Paul Rotha (note 26).
39. IOR/R/15/2/1650, Loch to B.C.H. Cross, Cairo, 6 February 1937; Loch to Thomson, 9
February 1937. Thomson is the superintendent featured in the film Air Outpost (1937).

40. IOR/R/15/2/499, PR Bushire to Weightman, 19 June 1940, Extracts from Ambassador
Baghdad’s account of tour in the Persian Gulf and Oman, March 1940: Sharjah.

41. O’Shea (note 25), p. 8. The photo in Fig. 5 is inscribed on its verso “Sharjah Fort
December 1933” (Dunn collection). Compare Imperial Outpost, Fig. 3.17.

42. Imperial Outpost, pp. 138-9.

43. British Airways News Letter no. 19, August 1941.

44. IOR/R/15/2/510 File 13/3, PR Bahrain to India Office, London, 23 November 1943.
He probably had in mind Weightman’s complaint of three years earlier.

45. O’Shea (note 25), pp. 8, 58-59.

46. The total bill is wrongly cited as Rs 60, not 60 shillings, in the British Library blog
about the Weightman complaint; http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2015/04/fifth-rate-
accommodation-in-sharjah.html (accessed 22.1.17). The exchange rate of Indian Rs 13⅓
to £1 sterling (20 shillings) remained fixed during the period under discussion here.

47. His monthly salary, including overseas and other allowances, was around Rs.1000.
IOR/R/15/2/1034, J.L. Sinha for Accountant General, Central Revenues to J.B. Howes,
18 October 1939.
48. IOR/R/15/2/1034, Tandy to Wakefield, PA Bahrain, 8 June 1943.

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