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6. people who have any real feelings at all, they must see & understand that you - & we - deserve to see each other after more than a year apart - & considering what we have lost - & that I have never seen Max, & you have never had the three of us together. If I am turned down, I promise you solemnly darling, that without doing anything foolish in any shape or form, I shall immediately set to work about being more successful the next time. Oh darling Barbara - I hope you are praying for it to come off, as I am, & that our combined prayers will be answered.

Now, darling, about the enclosed correspondence, I want you please to try & help here, by going to see the Managing Director of the Ottoman Bank in London & talking to him. My letter to the Manager in Jerusalem will explain things to you to a certain extent, but there are certain other points which I could not very well mention in my letter to him. To put it bluntly, the whole thing is a bloody shame, & they should be ashamed of themselves. Barclays & the Anglo-Palestine Banks out here, & all the banks at home, have encouraged their people to join up, & have then made their army pay up to their salaries - & continued their superannuation fund payments for them. The Ottoman Bank out here - (I do not know