The Love-Charm of Bombs (80 page)

‘was immediately exhilarated':
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 184.

‘This life cannot':
PdeM to HS, 4 October 1946 (PdeM Mon).

‘My decision is':
PdeM to HS, 12 October 1946 (PdeM Mon).

‘the richest':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 197.

‘the Reichstag, now a vast shell':
see Stephen Spender,
European Witness
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946),
p. 235.

‘an astonishingly bizarre':
Kingsley Martin, ‘A German Diary',
The New Statesman and Nation
, 27 April 1946.

‘hungry, discouraged':
PdeM, ‘The Dead Cities Revisited', July 1946 (unpublished article in PdeM Mon).

‘satrap days':
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 182.

‘Apart from the British':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in ibid.,
p. 190.

‘Although props and scenery':
see Walter Goehr, ‘Art Among the Ruins',
The New Statesman and Nation
, 13
July 1946.

‘unnaturally elaborate':
Clarissa Churchill, ‘Berlin Letter',
Horizon
, March 1946.

‘In the midst of':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 228.

‘Otherwise we can never':
PdeM to HS, 15 July 1945 (HS PdeM).

‘I came here':
PdeM to HS, 1 September 1945 (HS PdeM).

‘What can one
do':
PdeM to HS, 12 August 1945 (PdeM Mon).

‘how many shades':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 219.

‘London is so beautiful':
HS, diary, in
DaB
,
p. 206.

‘one of the foremost':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in
DaB
,
p. 223.

‘taken as ever': ibid.,
p. 227.

‘with its blunt':
PdeM to HS, 19 August 1945 (HS PdeM).

‘They hardly ever':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in
DaB
,
p. 190.

‘nothing goes to one's':
HS to PdeM, in ibid.,
p. 191.

‘The Red Army': ibid.

‘It is very difficult':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in ibid.,
p. 227.

‘Writing to her sister':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 17 July 1947 (RM TC).

‘She was also disturbed':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 25 August 1947 (RM TC).

‘unheralded and unordered':
RM to Jean Smith, 16 September 1947,
Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulay's Letters to a Cousin
, ed. Martin Ferguson Smith (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).

‘with its indefatigable':
RM,
Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950),
pp. 32, 171.

‘evoking the shifting colours': ibid.,
p. 23.

‘rather startling!':
RM to Jean Smith, 16 September 1947 (
Dearest Jean
).

‘If these objects':
RM,
Fabled Shore
,
p. 40.

‘she had passed a lovely':
RM to Jean Smith, 16 September 1947 (
Dearest Jean
).

‘She told a hitchhiker':
see RM,
Fabled Shore
,
p. 175.

‘the returning memory': ibid.,
p. 175.

‘the Labour mismanagement':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 25 August 1947 (RM TC).

‘a desolation of':
RM,
Fabled Shore
,
pp. 245–6.

 

20:
‘The place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna'

‘roofs covered with':
see GG to CW, 11 February 1948 (GG GU).

‘not going back to anyone':
see GG to VG, 19 June 1947 (VG Bod).

‘longing to push the':
see GG to CW, undated, 1947 (GG GU).

‘much of Britain was ambivalent':
see David Kynaston,
Austerity Britain 1945–51
(London: Bloomsbury, 2008),
p. 243.

‘I know what real':
see VG, interview with William Cash (private collection).

‘comforting Vivien':
see GG to CW, undated (VG Bod).

‘a joyful Christmas':
see GG to CW, 26 December 1947 (GG GU).

‘he was feeling happy':
see GG to CW, 30 December 1947 (GG GU).

‘bleakly miserable':
see GG to CW, 11 February 1948 (GG GU).

‘He does not have enough imagination':
see GG,
The Third Man
(London: Vintage, 2001),
ch. 1.

‘white bonnets protruded':
see GG to CW, 16 February 1948 (GG GU).

‘The illegal penicillin':
see GG to Wilfred Harrington, 28 July 1950, Richard Greene,
Graham Greene, A Life in Letters
(London: Little, Brown, 2007).

‘Hideous they were':
Elizabeth Montagu, interview in Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004–5),
vol. 2, p. 252.

‘a sordid smoke-filled':
see GG,
The Third Man
,
ch. 11.

‘How do you know?':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982),
ch. 5i.

‘I was there':
EB to CR, 12 April 1955 (
LCW
).

‘fully intelligent':
EB, GG, V. S. Pritchett,
Why do I Write? An Exchange of Views
(London: Percival Marshall, 1948).

‘the crowds of people':
see GG to CW, 17 February 1948 (GG GU).

‘He would have forgotten':
see GG to CW, 18 February 1948 (GG GU).

‘the best thing':
CR to Lilian Ritchie, April 1940, in
LCW
,
p. 41.

‘And marriage is':
CR, diary, 12 November 1942 (
LCW
).

‘Now that I am leaving':
CR, diary, 23 December 1945 (
LCW
).

‘Death of the Heart':
CR, diary, 25 December 1945 (
LCW
).

‘Love of my Life': CR, diary, 23 February 1946 (
LCW
).

‘going to take':
EB to CR, 23 November 1946 (
LCW
).

‘As a matter':
EB to Isaiah Berlin, Easter Sunday, 1948 (Isaiah Berlin archive, Bod).

‘If I were':
EB to CR, 8 February 1948 (
LCW
).

‘Socialist principle':
Clement Attlee, in Peter Hennessy,
Never Again: Britain 1945–51
(London: Penguin, 2006),
p. 198.

‘If I lived':
EB to Lilian Ritchie, 10 March 1948 (
LCW
).

‘I feel sometimes':
EB to CR, Easter Sunday, 1948 (
LCW
).

‘Hotels are always full':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
,
ch. 5ii.

‘a scrap of paper':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
,
ch. 5i.

‘love is a little peace':
GG, ‘Il Pace',
A Quick Look Behind: Footnotes to an Autobiography
(Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983).

‘he had betrayed':
see GG, interview in Sherry,
Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 281.

‘Everyone from Douglas':
Dorothy Glover to GG, 14 April 1948, in William Cash,
The Third Woman: The Secret Passion that Inspired The End of the Affair
(London: Abacus, 2001),
p. 169.

‘drink to it':
see GG to CW, 29 April 1948 (GG GU).

‘lauded the novel':
EB, review of
The Heart of the Matter
,
Tatler
, 2 June 1948.

‘he was fond of her':
see GG to VG, 3 June 1948 (VG Bod).

‘Currency reform':
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 214.

‘Vienna has become':
HS, diary, in ibid.

‘he was embarrassed':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
,
ch. 5i.

‘Shellfire and a blaze':
HS,
Return to Vienna,
trans. Christine Shuttleworth (Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2011),
8 February.

‘the shattered Prater':
see GG,
The Third Man
,
ch. 14.

‘like a sort':
Elizabeth Montagu, interview in Sherry,
The Life of Graham
Greene, vol. 2, p. 250.

‘a strange unknown world':
see GG, film treatment for
The Third Man
(GG HRC).

‘more and more likable:
see GG to CW, 21 June 1948 (GG GU).

[num]‘enough of being successful':
see GG to CW, 25 June 1948 (GG GU).

‘tired of being rich':
see GG to CW, 4 August 1948 (GG GU).

‘the British foreign secretary':
see Hennessy,
Never Again
,
p. 351.

‘Our relationship':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in
DaB
,
p. 242.

‘I can only repeat': ibid.

‘You are the cause':
PdeM, in ibid.

‘He is a wonderfully':
Rosamond Lehmann to Rayner Heppenstall, 26 February 1945, in Selina Hastings,
Rosamond Lehmann
(London: Vintage, 2003),
p. 240.

‘Barbara replied that':
for Rex Warner's meeting with Barbara Rothschild, his letters to Pam Morris and his life in Berlin more generally, see Stephen E. Tabachnick,
Fiercer than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner
(East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002),
pp. 239–46.

‘Tackley weekend':
see GG to CW, 1 August 1948 (GG GU).

‘a moment, perhaps':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 246.

‘green grave': see HS to PdeM, February 1946 (HS PdeM).

‘In Wimbledon':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 249.

‘Deep gloom has':
PdeM to HS, 12 September 1948 (HS PdeM).

‘a male friend':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 252.

‘I must write':
PdeM to HS, 18 February 1949 (PdeM Mon).

‘Love to you':
PdeM to HS, 3 March 1949 (PdeM Mon).

‘I'm tired, tired':
PdeM to HS, 22 June 1949 (PdeM Mon).

‘so like Vienna':
EB to CR, 12 April 1955 (
LCW
).

‘an awful pang':
see GG to CW, 24 September 1949 (GG GU).

 

21:
‘We could have been happy for a lifetime'

‘And they called
that
':
GG, ‘After Two Years',
A Quick Look Behind: Footnotes to an Autobiography
(Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983).

‘the idea of mortal':
see GG, interview in Marie-Françoise Allain,
The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984),
p. 159.