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D Gore W/dari in morning. Lovely day but cold

Cinema, not a very good film, Duke of West Point, about America's Sandhurst -
but a very queer place according to the picture.

Tea with Lipp & then bridge here but we left our party & went back to Awah to
see the show given by the Navy - some very coarse jokes but quite funny. It reminded me of

the old music hall in Portsmouth town.

Saturday 3rd February

Fort. HH came in, rather cross, Sh A & S were present & we discussed this
proposed visit of his to Ibn Saud. He was obstinate about it. He & I went to see H.W. Stayed

some time talking about nothing in particular. Office. Saw D & M for a few minutes. Very
busy. Lots of office work. At the fort in afternoon watching the troops practising for the Eid
parade. They were not too good as they have had so little practice lately.

Sunday 4th February

Worked in office before breakfast. Busy morning. Worked on speechfor Accession

celebration. Packer came in also Sh Abdulla b Isa & Vallance, the last two about school
affairs. Sh A upset by V's last article in the newspaper which he had not shown to Sh A. Sh A

discussed HH & got really angry about the way he is going on - entirely in the hands of
worthless young men. Very cold day. Went out to Sahhrir in afternoon, HH seemed very

stupid & did not look well, complained of the cold & said, rather crossly, that he supposed I
liked it -I agreed that I did. Discussed some news from Qattar over which he showed some
animation, then discussed the order of the Khalifah, eventually he was quite interested

about it.