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Office. I let the Police have a rest so no parades. Went over to the Agency. Cole got a wire from P.R.
saying not to settle on date for the ..., I had all the notices ready & might easily have sent them off so I cut
off the part about Barbar. I can't think why there is so much fuss & altercation about the medals. It now
appears that hey have actually come. Tennis, but very few people came though quite a lot came later on
to Bridge. Rather hot & no wind so we played outside on the veranda. The wireless was very good.

Thursday [2nd May]

Had a rehersal of the Review in the morning in front of the Palace. It went off fairly well but I had to do a
lot of explaining. The men seemed to find no difficulty in carrying out the word of command of an
Officer whose voice was strange to them. We practised for a couple of hours in the sun & quite warm. I