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Thursday 29th February

Fort.

At the Agency for some time & then in office.

Went to Senian & got some vegetables, the potatoes there are a failure.

Dinner at the Andersons & then to a dance at the club, too crowded to be pleasant but a

good dinner & some bridge afterwards.

Friday 1st March

Drove to Wasmieh where we lunched & sat on the shore, then on to Rumaitha where HH is

staying, had a talk with him & then home & people to Bridge. A nice day, not hot. The

country looks very brown & no grass about, so little rain this year.

Told HH about the papal insignia, he was very pleased & interested, wanted to know if I had

seen it, & really disappointed at hearing that the Agency disapproved of his being given it -
he suggested accepting it & putting it in a box also said perhaps they would give him
something else instead, he obviously could not understand the Agency's point of view,

saying did they not remember that during the Abyssinia war he had forbidden Italian

imports. He knows a great deal more about the pope than he used to. He obviously saw no
objections.

Sunday 3rd March