Cairo to Riyadh diary

Discusses political situations in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Palestine in the 1940s. Bilainkin had conversations with some important political figures, including Saudi king Ibn Saud, Foreign Minister and His Royal Highness the Emir Feisal, Egyptian Prime Minister Nokrashy Pasha, Abdul Hady Pasha, Chaim Weizmann, Jemal al Husseini, General Sir Alan Cunningham, and British Generals MacMillan and Gale. Includes material about the incident of February 4, 1942, when British tanks crashed into Abdin Palace.