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| Arthur Creech Jones source: The National Portrait Galleryhttp://www.npgprints.com/ image.php?imgref=124569 |
Sarg told us the Inspector General is coming on Monday to talk to us
about our position if the force should be disbanded. There is some talk that we should be found
positions in another Colonial Police Force.
I rather hope we do.
Went to the cinema tonight to see “The Hidden Eye” (3rd
time I’ve seen it).
Work in plenty again this morning.
Afternoon when everyone else has gone is when most work gets done.
Went for a walk in the Balad tonight.
Plenty of shots fired there must have been a wedding somewhere.
I took a party of police to a village tonight to search a house for
“Hasheesh”. We had everything upside
down & inside out from roof to cow shed but found nothing.
[1] Many years later, Dad once sat me down when I ws home from
University one holiday and asked "Well, Christopher, have you ever taken
any drugs?" By this time I felt old enough and sufficiently out from
under the wing of my parent to say to him, "Yes, Dad, as a matter of fact
I have smoked a bit of cannabis! I'm a student - it's what
happens..."
He was thoughtful for a moment then he said with a typical twinkle
in his eye...
" Hmmm. Yes, so have I."
He seemed really pleased to have someone to tell! From what
I gather he had visited a brothel at some point in his time in Palestine and
although I fully believe he had not partaken of the other vices on sale at this
place, he had indulged in a few puffs on a hubbly-bubbly - ie no hooker but a
little hookah!
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