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Tuesday 9th April

Reid, of Holloways, re delay in bridge material

Steele very upset because boys steal the glass reflectors off traffic signs.

Took Hourton-Boswall out in the car all the afternoon, P. Fort, Budega, Idari & the police
lines. He seemed to enjoy it very much, then to dine with H & P, early, & to the cinema - a
rotten film & the short so bad as to be comic. News of German invasion of Denmark

Monday.

Wednesday 10th April

Fort, rode out to Sinj and took some snaps. Hot day. Office. Sh H came in, discussed HH -
very freely - & his menage.

Almost finished annual report.

HB, who was to have dined with me, looked in to say he was leaving p.m, a pleasant fellow, I

would like to have seen more of him.

To the cinema after dinner, a command performance of the Haj picture, HH present & a

swarm of Omani guests who arrived lately & are at the Palace. HH as stupid as I have ever
seen him, although figuring prominently in the film, walking with the King, he seemed to

know nothing about it & constantly asked what he or the King or the crowd were doing & he