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1935
Monday [25th March]
Fort. Court. A man called Moore, editor of The Statesman, one of the best papers in India, is staying
with Loch who has been trying to get him to come for 18 months. We took him out in the afternoon and
showed him round a bit, the tombs, the bazaar etc. He is a pleasant man, almost fifty, looks like a soldier.
It is always interesting to meet people of that style. Later we went to a cocktail party on the ship, a crowd
of people, most of the oil women. One "gate-crashed", the people on calling terms, she just came
uninvited, a dreadful woman too! In the evening we had a small dinner party. Loch, Moore, & Back &
Hewett from the ship. Very pleasant, we had the wireless on all the time & heard the news too. It is very
disturbing & Moore takes a very serious view of it, being Editor of a paper like The Statesman he ought
