| Description | Typed transcript of pp.51-83 of Belgrave's diary for 30 April to 26 December 1949 [pages from 7 June to 12 September torn out of diary, which recommences on 6 October]. Topics covered include a report that Ali b Abdulla had struck the island's Catholic priest (5 May), Wilfrid Thesiger's staying with Belgrave, including his opinions (6, 7 May), news of a dreadful boating accident in which some forty people - mainly children - were drowned (6 May), James Belgrave using a cine camera while his father took still photos of mosques (19, 25 May) - later screened on the projector at Jufair (27 May), discussion of currency in the Gulf with a Treasury officer named Waite (25 May), a visit from the Shaikh of Kuwait (30 May), more film screenings at the Leslie Smiths (30 May), return from UK leave (8 October), death of the former political agent Sir Hugh Weightman in an air crash (28-29 October), Muharram processions (1-2 November), Sheikh Sulman's visit to Kuwait (4-9 November), cinema visits (16, 22 November), the case of a Bahraini Jew going to Israel and then - contrary to regulations - returning (17 November), visit from Evelyn Paxton of the BBC Arabic Service (21 December), race day (23 December) and a visit to the oil company's new 'Executive House' (24 December) |