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1935

Thursday 4th July

Fort, then to the Palace to call on the Shaikh who moved in today, the fellow we are considering
appointing as one of the Shia Kadis was there, unprepossessing but there seems to be nobody better than
him. His manners were bad, he did not stand up every time the Shaikh did. A great many people in the
Meglis, callers. The Shaikh got on to the subject of England, and Henry VIII, a favourite topic, he
described how he cut off the heads of 18 wives, just because he got tired of them. He seemed all the same
to have a slight admiration for him. I hope people realised that all this was a long time ago. Came back
to breakfast & after a little while in the office went over to Muharraq on the Hedd murder case. Hamood