| Description | Typed transcript of pages 1-64 of Belgrave's diary, covering the period between 1 January and 30 April 1935. Topics covered include details of New Year's eve celebrations, visit of Marjorie's mother Lepel Barrett-Lennard 'LBL' (5 January, 13 February etc), discussion of Sunnis and Shias holding court and the issue of Sharia law (8 January), arrival of an oil tanker (11 January) which took 15,000 tons of oil and thus brought Rs50,000 royalties to Bahrain (12 January), ship visit to the naval Commander-in-Chief with discussion of the admiral's recent meeting with the Shah in Tehran, followed by cocktails at the Agency with Air Vice Marshall Mitchell (19 January), crowd of 5-6,000 attending sports day with Marine Band and lots of amateur photographers (20 January), photography (25 January, 28 March, 24,30 April), discovery of illicit arak stills at Muharraq (8 February), visit from Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British envoy to Tehran, and his wife (26 February), RAF aerial survey of the island (26 February - 1 March), first meeting of the newly elected Municipal Council (7 March), news of the attempted murder of Ibn Saoud - the ruler of Saudi Arabia - at Mecca (16 March), a visit from Arthur Moore, editor of the Indian newspaper 'The Statesman' (25 March), news on radio that British were moving their naval base from Henjam Island (Iran) to Bahrain (3 April), naval flag ceremony at Jufair to mark the establishment of their naval base there (13 April), death of 66 people who were crushed during distribution of alms at the house of Mohammed Tayeb - 'a day of dreadful happenings which will always be remembered in Bahrain' (14 April), and the exection of a murderer by Belgrave (22 April). |