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Sunday 17th March
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GP left for Bashire.

Office.

Mrs Leigh brought Mansel-Pleydell & three other young RAF men to call, M-P a nice young fellow & all
quite pleasant but Mrs L rather too possessive about the RAF.

Monday 18th March

•ourt - mostly appeal cases from Lower Court. The Iraqi officer, Alman, beat up a taxi driver, a very
poying affair & one that will do the Police no good. Lowe asked me to lunch at Mhq to meet the Anglo
/jerican delegation who were going into the Palestine business en route to visit Ibn Saud. Very interesting
1 was not impressed, they were utterly ignorant of this part of the world & two of them seemed rather
jsh old men. The most intelligent was an FO man who I liked & who knew various people I know at