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Fort. Court. Several big cases. A meeting about sales of Khalifah property attended by Shaikhs
Mohammed, Abdulla, Sulman * Mohammed Ali. Spent a long time & didn't make many decisions. Then
Abdulla & Sulman & I went to the Agency where we discussed the negotiations which are supposed to be
coming off between Bahrain & Ibn Saoud, decided what line to take. Loch mentioned the question of a
C.L.R. Abdulla & Sulman said if it was a choice between American & Englishmen they would prefer the
latter. Motored in the afternoon & then went to Davies' house to play Bridge. Smith, the man from Basrah,
who is succeeding Russell. was there. Quite a pleasant young man. Loch got a message, very late, that the
Shoreham is to arrive tomorrow so I motored round to Abdulla bin Jabr & told him the news, he sent out a
car to Sakhrir to let them know about lunch tomorrow.
Tuesday [26th February]
