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Meeting of food committee, Sh A was away so I took the chair. Quite a good meeting, discussed bailer, i j
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some complaints about tea shops & sweet makers and also about sheep being smuggled out of Bn, HH has 1 I
got an idea that this is happening. Saw various people after the meeting. Went over to see Galloway, he & Hi
Hay seem on very bad terms, not surprising. Discussed the air passage question, at the moment it is
impossible to get here by air & to Iraq or India by air.

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Cocktail party at Jufair, an enormous number of people but nobody introduced any of the navy, however I
spoke to one or two who seemed pleasant & a great improvement on the Norfolk. Many more of them are i p
regular navy & so a much better type. I i ,
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Didnt go to Jidda. Worked all the morning in the garden, drove to Muharraq in the afternoon. Though a very 1
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warm winter yet the garden is backward, the only flowers out are alyssum & nasturtiums & some flowering jnr,
shrubs. My grass on the lawn is very scrubby & the garden still looks very wintery.
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