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Monday 1st December

Court, not many cases & very dull ones at that.

Tuesday 2nd December

A day of some excitement. Drove to the race course where lots of water was lying. HH came in & stayed a
long time, heard that there were to be demonstrations & bazaar shut in sympathy with Palestine, all the boys
came out & processed, advised HH to shut the schools but he would not do so, in the evening however he
changed his mind & sent me a message - some incidents, Yusef Khaduri's car had some damage also another
carrying Jews, their old Rabi beaten up & windows of E Bank smashed. Harrison stopped & shouted at as a
communist & American, much anti American shouting etc. Put the Police out on duty. Went over to see
Pelly. Lovely day with magnificent clouds. More processing in afternoon, a lot of Persian boatmen joined
beating their chests as in Muharram & small boys singing Muharram chants. They carried banners which
they deposited in the mosque. Dined with Grisewoods. Bridge, all sorts of wild rumours reached Awali of
people killed & looting, Awali people wisely confined to camp. Quite a pleasant party & good dinner.