| Description | Typed transcript of pp.49-70 of Belgrave's diary for 5 May to 10 July 1951. Topics covered include the affairs of the Gulf Aviation Company (6 May), concern about rise of 'Communist feeling' among Bahrain's young men (8 May), cinema visits (11, 17 May, 3 June), news of gold smuggling from Kuwait to Pakistan and China (17 May), more from Ali bin Ahmed about his new cinema plans (17 May), concern over the presence of a group of Persian naval officers (21-22 May), screening of a silent Charlie Chaplin film at the opening of the 'Bahrain Cinema' (23 May), start of Ramadhan and an observation on the number of Arabs who actually fast during the season (6 June), the death of Gulf Aviation Company founder Frederick Bosworth in an air crash (10 June), a trip by plane and train to Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Lebanon, with visits to Basra, Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut (11-20 June) before sailing back to the UK, where his diary records visits to London and Brighton (6-10 July) |