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Saturday 26th November

C n C left A.M. Last day of holiday. Budeya. Jebel cinema.

Sunday 1st January

Usual official visit to Agency, guard of honour etc. HH was late, no reason for being so. The Police looked
very smart. Weightman told us of the speech he was to make, an innovation & in this case a most excellent
thing consisting of a dressing down of the agitating parties in Bahrain & a lot of suitable talk about the Bn
Government. The usual callers in the morning, held my reception outside on the veranda as it was warm.
The house is in a state of caos after our enormous party last night. At midday went as usual to call on the

Agency. Slept after lunch & then went to the Lipps for Bridge, came back early, everyone looking rather
"morning after the night before".

Monday 2nd January

Fort. Sh Mohd came & stayed about an hour threatening to depart on Wednesday, he took an advance of
B500, then Sh Sulman, went to Agency and then had a long talk with Davies, who seemed disinclined to give
way on the point which we regard as most important. M went to Fort in afternoon, I worked in the garden.
Went to see Weightman again in the evening & rang up Davies & told him he better come to Sakhrir

tomorrow & present his own letter. Implied that it was not much use to us.

Promoted Abdu Kirim Haj Sulman to be a navildar \ on his wedding night.