| Description | Typed transcript of pp.1-28 of Belgrave's diary for 1 January to 10 March 1950. Topics covered include the novelty of a hoover (2 January) and Polaroid camera (15 January), appointment of former political resident Geoffrey Prior as director of the Bank of Iran (2 January), visit from the British Delegation to the Foreign Secretaries Conference, headed by Philip Noel-Baker (3-6 January), Indian celebration to mark their new Constitution (26 January), death of Shaikh Ahmed of Kuwait (29 January), a fire at Jufair (1 February), legal arbitration case with Lord Radcliffe (7, 8 February), news of UK general election (24 February), conversion of an Awali oil worker to Islam (5 March), resurfacing of the Budeya Road (6 March), Belgrave's observation on the amount of new building work around Manama (8 March) and Ali b Ahmed's proposal for a new cinema (9 March). |