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1945

Sunday 17th March

GP left for Bashire.

Office.

Mrs Leigh brought Mansel-Pleydell & three other young RAF men to call, M-P a nice young fellow & all
quite pleasant but Mrs L rather too possessive about the RAF.

Monday 18th March

Court - mostly appeal cases from Lower Court. The Iraqi officer, Alman, beat up a taxi driver, a very
annoying affair & one that will do the Police no good. Lowe asked me to lunch at Mhq to meet the Anglo
American delegation who were going into the Palestine business en route to visit Ibn Saud. Very interesting
but I was not impressed, they were utterly ignorant of this part of the world & two of them seemed rather
foolish old men. The most intelligent was an FO man who I liked & who knew various people I know at