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Dinner with HH. I got there early & found practically the whole family seated along the stone bench outside,
quite a display of the Khalifah - good & bad & mostly bad. Beautiful moonlight night. GP. Galloway &
RancS arrived & we went into the Meglis, talk mostly about weather, horses etc, pretty dull but HH in good
form. Then trooped slowly over to the other room for dinner, which was excellent, a baby camel which
tasted very good like very tender veal. Sat between Sh Abdulla & Kh b Sulman who was chatty, discussed
RAF - Prideaux & his horses & Russia. The family as a whole are not an imposing spectacle.

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ectric o^S as usua* ^ sent ^or ^eigh t0 discuss his going to Hassa to advise the Govt there on installing
>n ™„Ver, with some Surveyors. Rather funny as presumably the Americans could have done the job as
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Serai. I \0 more easily. Spent most of the morning at the Agency listening to G.P's disapproval of things in

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'e Harrisons - a pleasant party Dick Snow & the Russell Browns & Storm. Talked mostly b^1
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