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HELIOPOLIS AERODROME,
HELIOPOLIS,
EGYPT.
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BENTLEYS & IAXA.
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AIRWAYS, CAIRO
28th, May, 1934,
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Lt, Col, H.R, Dickson,
Political Agent,
KOWEIT
My dear Dickson,
I have thought it best f to reply to
part of your official letter No.C-187 in a
personal way, but I enclose a duplicate copy
in case you would like to send it on to
Colonel Fowle*
I cannot commence to tell you how
upset I have been to think that Mrs. Dickson
and yourself, who I have only met for a short
time but have always regarded as very great
personal friends, should have been so unkindly
treated by one of the Captains of my Company,
In the ordinary way even the most temperamental
man could not have been so rude, but I beg to
ask you to consider stretching your powers of
kindliness with a view to forgiving Captain
Alcock under the very exceptional circumstances
which I feel were unknown to you and which I
will try to describe.
Captain Alcock*s wife was expecting
to have a child. During the time that her
husband was on his way from India she fell down
the stairs and was taken to hospital and a pre
mature birth was expected. We took the best
possible advice and were assured that there was
no danger to the woman, and under the circum
stances decided that the best thing to do was
not to pass any warning to Captain Alcock but
to relieve him of any anxiety by keeping him in
ignorance. Unfortunately, as often happens
in such cases, advice reached him by round-about
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