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Monday 20th May
Most of the morning was spent in exchanging official calls. HH was very different with Hay & obviously
tried to be as amiable as possible, I stayed in some time at the Palace after the call as HH wanted to tell me
what G.P. said to him when he went out to say good bye on Thursday - it was in fact a violent attack on the
Foreign Office which he told HH would never look after the interests of Bahrain and should HH ever be
asked - which is not likely - whether he wants to be dealt with by the F.O he should say no. He told HH the
only person who ever helped Bn was Laithwaite.
Dined with the Balls, quite a pleasant party, Ball is a good talker, afterwards he showed us reproductions of a
lot of modern pictures.
Tuesday 21st May
Municipal elections yesterday & today, we started a new system with wards & voting places in each of the 7
wards of the town.
Spent some time at the Agency calling on Hay, I found him very pleasant & most different to G.P. to deal
with.
