Ronald William Bailey CMG (1917-2010) was a British diplomat who specialised in Middle East affairs.
Two thousand mattresses were found; local ladies made corned beef soup; and ambulances were summoned after one of the ships was bombed.
Among the refugees were the novelist Lawrence Durrell, King George II of the Hellenes (who shared Bailey's office) and a Greek priest with the name Jesus Christ on his passport – the man said God had called him to Jerusalem, but he was not entitled to a visa.
When the Italians accused British troops of damaging archaeological sites in Cyrenaica, Bailey was sent with Professor Alan Rowe of Alexandria University to investigate, though the Germans were close by.
[3] Bailey arrived in Morocco for his last posting just after an attack had been made on the royal aeroplane, during which the king, Hassan II, had been forced to take the controls.