| Description | Typed transcript of pages 1-89 of Belgrave's diary, covering the period between 1 January and 25 December 1940. Topics covered include cinema attendance (5,12, 19, 26 'Stagecoach' January, 2 'Duke of West Point', 9, 21 'Spawn of the North' February, 15, 22, 27 (first encounter Mae West) and 28 'Wuthering Heights' March, 5 'The Four Feathers', 9, 10, 13, 18 'Barbary Coast', 30 April, 9 'Intermezzo', 14, 21, 23, 29 May, 4, 6 'The Garden of Allah' , 12 , 14 June, 2 'Last of the Mohicans' 4, 9 'A Yank at Oxford', 12 'Edgar Wallace' movie, 16, 18 'South Riding', 24 'Raffles' and 30 July, 3 'Storm in a Teacup', 10, 17 'Men are not Gods', 20, 23 'Dodsworth' 27, 29 'Confessions of a Nazi Spy' and 31 August, 6 September, 'Snowwhite' on 27 October, 2, 7, 22 November, 20 December), the annual Durbar (8 February), drawing up of secret arrangements for appointing Sulmanas the successor of Shaikh Hamed (13, 16 February), photography (16 February), visit to the new Roman Catholic church (20 February) and issues over papal insignia during visit of the RC bishop for the official blessing of the church on 8 March (1-11 March), sermon by Canon Bridgeman at the Mission church (24 March), visit from American minister in Iran, Paul Knabenshue (26 March), screening of film showing Sheikh Hamed and King Ibn Saoud on Haj at Mecca (10 April), arrival of Norwegian tankers (16 April), new of the war in Norway (11 April, 1 May), the German invasion of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg (10 May), attendance of Captain O'Connell (?) at masonic meeting (22 May), visit from Amir Saud (8-10 June), declaration of war by Italy (10 June), receipt of a large cheque from Thornburg for oil (18 June), encounter with a shark (11 July), news of the death of former police chief Parke in Aden (13 July), listening to Hitler's speech on the radio - 'sounded like a lunatic' (19 July), newspaper reports about the attack on Marjorie Belgrave's boat en route (?) to India (2 September), - pages missing between 9 September and 14 October - heavy rain and flooding causing damage to houses (15-16 November), Arab women and some Europeans collecting for a Spitfire aeroplane (23, 25 November, 17 December), and the opening of new church at Awali (1 December) |