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Saturday 23rd September

Fort

HH didnt come in as he was moving to Rafaa.

Sunday 24th September

Office all day. Innumerable people called, Sh Abdulla now seems to come in every
other day, a tiresome habit as he merely comes to gossip. Spent some time at the
Agency.

Didnt go out in afternoon as waiting for people from Agency to arrive.

Had an overflow of V.I.Ps to dinner & one to stay as Hick had an Arab party - the
Postmaster General of India, an Indian, Director of Civil Aviation, Sir Fred Timms &
Economic Adviser to Govt, Sir Theodore Gregory a funny looking little Jew, very
gloomy about post war prospects & equally so about when the war would end. Had Snow
in to meet them & Hick & Rogers came across after their Arabs left. All three were
quite interesting & talked well, Gregory was son of a working jeweller & much
interested in pearls. Rung up at night about motor accident at Rafaa.

Monday 25th September

Spent the entire morning at Awali investigating the motor accident & then at the
womens hospital taking down evidence of five prostitutes who were in the cars.
Difficult to discover exactly why they collided, it was strange that no more of them
were injured, one US officer killed, one damaged & 3 oilmen damaged but two of them
very slightly & only one woman kept in hospital. Got back at 2 oclock not having had
any breakfast.
Drove over to Muharraq with the dogs. The Hutchings came in to call & stayed quite a
while discussing future plans of their boy.