The Life of Graham Greene (1939-1955)

by Norman Sherry

  Durán, General Gustavo 325

  Durdin, Peg 416

  Durdin, Tillman 416, 425–6

  Durrell, Lawrence 316

  Duvalier, François ‘Papa Doc’ 508

  Eliot, T.S. 159, 257

  Elliott, Nicholas 138, 489, 494

  The End of the Affair (Greene) xiii, 301; pre-war life 10; Dorothy and 21, 287; Catholic Church and 42; London prostitutes 79–80; V1 rockets 185–6; Greene writes 192, 306, 333–4, 345, 397; Catherine and 219, 259–61, 280, 336; Greene’s jealousy 267–70; hate is a source of love 279; end of simple lust 307; Greene decides to confront Harry 326; uncomfortable reception 370–80; film 441, 442; wins Catholic Authors award 442; reviews 502–3

  England Made Me (Greene) xx, 89, 212

  Enigma machine 167, 168–9

  espionage see British Intelligence; Central Intelligence Agency.

  Evans, Charles xix, 14–15, 41

  Evening Standard 209–10

  HMS Exmouth 33

  Eyre & Spottiswoode Publishers 187–90; Greene invents Mrs Montgomery 192–4; Mauriac 194–6; Greene’s authors 194–8; offers Greene chairmanship 203–4

  The Fallen Idol (film) 239–41, 301

  Farr, M.M. 299

  Faulkner, William 502–3

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 446–7

  Fidrmuch, Paul (Ostro) 172–3

  Finland 40

  Fleming, Ian 171

  Flood, Jim 413

  Fonteyn, Margot 384, 499–500

  Ford, Ford Madox 15, 141, 196

  Forster, E.M. 489

  Forter, Alexis 122

  France: Munich agreement with Hitler 7; German occupation 38; The Power and the Glory a bestseller 42; Vichy Africa 119–21, 123, 130; Greene worn out by signing 308; Vietnam 359–63, 364–5, 390; Phat Diem 392–7; loses De Lattre and hope in Vietnam 421; angry about bicycle bombs 426; Greene rages at French archbishop for Colette 470–1; withdraws from Vietnam 471–2; Americans in Vietnam 475–7, 479; anglophobia in Vietnam 484

  Franchini, Mathieu 410

  Freetown 100–6, 130; arrival 98–9; conditions of living 113–16; trip up-country 131–2; suicides 140–2; Greene leaves 153–5; Greene returns with Dean 309–11

  Frere, A.S. 14, 41

  Furse, Aileen 180

  García, Juan Pujol 173–4

  de Gaulle, Charles: Free French in Africa 121, 130

  Gent, Sir Edward 342

  George, Daniel 301

  George VI 206

  Germany: Hugh Greene witnesses menace 10; occupies France 38; London Blitz 46–54; acquires diamonds from Portugese 122–3; desert war 167; attacks on shipping 168–9, 170; operate in Portugal and Spain 175–6; Germans working against the Nazis 176–7; unconditional surrender 206; Greene visits Russian zone 328

  Getz, John 368, 419, 441

  Getz, Libby 385, 441

  Giap, General 363

  Gide, André 264

  Gilby, Thomas 504; Morals and Marriage 380

  Gledhill, Cecil 178

  Glover, Dorothy 138, 306; Greene meets 19–20; affair with Greene 22–5; shelter warden 50, 51, 57–8; Wednesday raid 55–6, 57–8, 59–60; wartime courage 60–1; rivalry with Vivien 62; Greene lives with 63, 165, 185–6, 224; Greene leaves for MI6 84, 89; works for Ministry of Information 90; letters to Freetown 144–5; Greene hopes for end of affair 165; meets Philby 180; voice of Mrs Montgomery 193; Greene spends VE day with 207; Greene’s love faded 215; overtaken by Catherine 232, 233–4, 261–2; Greene sends to Africa 266–7; discovers affair with Catherine 278–9; Greene’s remorse 280–3; Greene tells all to Vivien 285–6; painful trip to Africa with Greene 289–92; chooses Italian holiday 318–19; conversion telegram sounds suspicious 483–4

  Goebbels, Dr Paul Josef 12

  The Golden Measure (Maritain) 213

  Gollancz, Victor 120

  Goodger, William 297

  Gorky, Maxim 247

  Graham-Maingott, Tony 178

  Grasset, Bernard 194

  Gray, Dulcie 162

  Greece 377–8

  Greene, Barbara (cousin) xx, 91

  Greene, Charles (father) xvi; home life 27–8; death 149–52; acceptance of Greene’s Catholicism 151

  Greene, Elisabeth (sister, later Dennys) xiv, 384; works in Intelligence 83, 84; engagement to Rodney Dennys 145

  Greene, Francis (son) 61, 187, 203; evacuation plans 6; questions 142; VE day 206; sees Vivien read letter 275

  Greene, (Henry) Graham: suicidal thoughts xiii, xvi–xvii, 286–7, 311–12; secretiveness and masks xiv; sex xiv; marries Vivien xix, xvii; Priestley sues xix; childhood and school xvi–xvii; sees Kenneth Richmond xvii; Oxford and youth xvii–xviii; Catholicism xviii, 257, 279; first jobs xviii; early career xviii–xix; Liberian trip xx; Shirley Temple sues xx–xxi, 3; visits Mexico xxi, 3; culture shock in Britain 3–4; family life 5, 8, 61; wartime work 5, 9–10, 28–9, 30–2, 44–5; evacuates family 6–7, 16, 17, 20–1; flight on bomber 11; divides serious and entertainment writing times 13; separates work from home 13, 14, 19–20; marriage breaks up 16, 25–7, 142–3, 165, 277–8; sex 16, 251–2, 307, 498–500; affair with Dorothy 19–25, 145, 165; falls in love with Catherine 21–2, 227–8, 232–3; draft delayed 29–30; Trench persona 31–2, 40, 67; personal manner 34–5; Ministry of Information 35–8, 51; refuses to rewrite for Church 42–3; takes Spectator job 44; Blitz experiences 49–54; Wednesday raid 55–9; Clapham house bombed 62–6; demon for destruction 66; gloomy and morbid side 67–8; enjoys the Windmill Theatre 71; attacks on Noël Coward 72–8; prostitutes 79–80, 138–9, 252, 365 joins MI6 83–9; wartime will 90; sails to Africa for Intelligence 91–7; return to Freetown 98–9, 100–6; spy training 106–10, 130; life in Freetown 113–119, 133–5, 153–5; spying business 116, 118–23; dislikes interrogation and search 124–7; secretary for a spy 127–30; business of spying 130–1; wins Hawthornden prize 141–2; death seeker 145, 385; death of father 149–52; horrified by Brighton Rock play 163–4; St Albans intelligence operation 167–70; Ryder Street intelligence work 168–78, 489–91; good at intelligence fantasy 169–70; on Muggeridge as agent 170; relationship with Philby 179–81; resigns from MI6 181–3; worries about family 186–7; works for Political Intelligence 187; works for Eyre & Spottiswoode 187–90; fireguard and authority 190–1; publisher at Eyre and Spottiswoode 191–203; pranks 192–4, 213–15, 245, 490–1; Mauriac 194–6; Powell and loss of job 200–3; free to write 202; spends VE day with Dorothy 207; reviews for Evening Standard 209; tension and sadness 212–15; politics 214; sex 224 affair with Catherine deepens 229–31; portrayals of Vivien 230–1; collaborates with Reed 239–41; villa at Anacapri 246–7; attitude towards homosexuals 248; to California 253–5; ill health 255, 504; passion for Catherine 262–3, 279–80; confidence in writing 264–5; flatness after a novel 265; jealousy over Catherine 267–9, 280, 311; opium 268–71, 506–7; Vivien finds Catherine at Beaumont Street 271–2, 274; leaves Vivien 275–7; remorse over Vivien and Dorothy 280–3; Vivien considers judicial separation 283–7; takes Dorothy to Africa 289–92; Catherine and religion 298, 329, 502; prayers 299–300; not happy with fame 301–3; insecurity about Catherine 302; trip to Africa with Basil Dean 308–9; heroes reduced 312; unhappy with attempt at play 313–15; surprises US journalist 314; near breakdown 315, 316–18; drinking and drugs 317; Italian holiday with Dorothy 318; asks Catherine to marry him 318–20; battles to win Catherine 322–31; sees psychiatrist 331–3; Catherine becomes troublesome 334–6; homeless 335, 507–8; Malaya 335–6, 336, 340–1, 344–5; flirts with publisher’s daughter 339–40; encounters old enemy Wheeler 349–50; patrols with Gurkhas 353–7; troublesome affair with Catherine continues 357; arrives in Vietnam 364–8; losing Catherine 371, 372, 375, 503–4, 505–6, 508; on Korda’s yacht 376–8, 383–4; Catherine suggests no sex 380–1; cheerful visit with Waugh 381–3; returns to Vietnam 385–9; rough brothel in Vietnam 401–2; US visa troubles 437–41, 445–9, 472; leaves Vietnam 441; Hollywood under McCarthyism 442–3; goes to Kenya 461�
�9; rages at French archbishop for Colette 470–1; anti-Americanism 472–5; on colonialism 479–80; continues friendship with Philby 488–96; still an agent? 494–6; still in love with Catherine 497–8, 500, 502–3

  Greene, Sir Graham (uncle) 83

  Greene, Herbert (brother) xiv; England Made Me xx; agent for Japanese Intelligence 83–4

  Greene, Hugh (brother) xiv, 20, 334, 410; expelled from Germany 10; Warsaw correspondent 12; Dorothy 23, 145; sends Greene a secretary 128; dislike for Catherine 225; Malaya 339, 342–4, 481 Greene, Lucy (daughter) 61, 406; birth xx; war looms 5; Greene drinks to 97

  Greene, Marion (mother) xiv; home life 27–8; relationship with Vivien 44; Wednesday raid 58–9; death of husband 149–52; fictional portraits 150; upset by Greene leaving Vivien 276–7

  Greene, Molly (sister) xiv, 5 Greene, Nora (aunt) 27

  Greene, Raymond (brother) xiv; hears Catherine’s side 330

  Greene, Vivien (wife, née Dayrell-Browning): early marriage xix; intends to write book about the marriage xv; courtship xviii; family life 5, 8, 10; evacuation 6–7, 20–1, 27–8; Greene’s affection and regret 11; marriage breaks up 16, 25–7, 60–1, 142–3, 165, 277–8; wartime evacuation 16, 17; Greene’s affair with Dorothy 21–3,24, 62, 265, 285–6; wartime Oxford 44–5, 60, 141, 206–7; Clapham house bombed 63–4, 65–6; hurt by ‘The Destructors’ 66; opposition to Intelligence job melts 85; worried about taxes 107; vets Brighton Rock script 161–2; Greene worries about 186–7; VE day without husband 206–7; no more children 208; Greene no longer loves 215; disturbed by Catherine 224–6, 228–30, 266, 267, 283; anguish reflected in The Heart of the Matter 233–8; Catholicism and Greene’s conversion 257; Swiss holiday with absent-minded husband 263–4; trip to US 269, 270; strained relationship 270–71; confronted with Catherine in the house 271–2, 274; Greene leaves 275–7; considers judicial separation 283–7; prayers aren’t bargaining 300; remembers birthday 306; Greene considers annulment 323; no going back 335; shocked by Danish marriage rumour 340; role in The Quiet American 405–9; Greene feels distance 503

  Griffin, Cardinal 42

  Guinzberg, Harold 439, 442

  Gullion, Edmund 361, 363–4, 367, 419; thought French wrong 421–2; CIA and Thé 434

  A Gun for Sale (Greene) 212; film 141, 146, 239; success in France 199

  Gurkhas 353–7

  Gurney, Sir Henry 341

  Haiti 508

  Hale, Lionel 301

  Haley, Sir William 458

  Hammerstein, Oscar 304, 313, 314, 315

  Harris, Frank 213

  Harris, Wilson 110; Greene’s pranks 213–14

  Hart–Davis, Rupert 20–1

  Harwood (school friend) 112, 137

  Hassall, Christopher 141

  Hastings, Lady Selina 320

  Havana 447, 448

  Haw–Haw, Lord (William Joyce) 47, 205–6

  Hawthornden Prize 141–2, 303

  Hayward, John 233, 258, 264–5, 319

  Hazzard, Shirley 247

  The Heart of the Matter (Greene) 212; context xiii; Catholic Church nearly condemns 42; Freetown 98, 104–5, 115, 135—8, 310–11; cockroach stalks in Lagos 109–12; Freetown police commissioner 117–18; irritation with spying business 123; interrogation and search 125–7; trip up-country from Freetown 131–2; choosing servants 134; suicide of Pemberton 139–40; telegrams about death 151–2; Greene writes 192, 211, 293–4; New York plug 199; success 202; Catherine 219, 263–4; Vivien 230, 233–8, 283; Greene feels empty afterwards 242; film rights 253; shipboard reading 253; Greene’s jealousy 268; confessions 273—4; sin and salvation 279; Dorothy 282; Scobie’s suicide a worry to Vivien 287; publication 291, 292; reviews 294–5, 301, 302; suicide and sex upsets Catholics 294–9; prayers 299–300; standing in Greene’s works 301; brings fame 301–3; sales success 303; play 304–7, 313–15, 324, 325

  Heath, Donald 403, 405, 413, 421; bicycle bombs 425, 430; Cao Dai 432

  Heinemann Publishers 14–15; take on Greene as salaried writer xix; not pushing The Power and the Glory 41–2; Greene plans to stay with 188; produce uniform editions 212

  Herbert, A.P.: the Blitz 46

  Hertogh, Maria 346–7

  Higham, David 187 see also Pearn, Pollinger & Higham Literary Agents.; on Dorothy 23; Anthony Powell 201

  Himmler, Heinrich 175

  Hitler, Adolf: meets Chamberlain 6, 7; spreads through Europe 7, 8, 39–40; assassination plot 178–9, 182–3; death 205

  Ho Chi Minh 359–60, 360, 363, 471, 476, 484

  Hochstetter, Leo 418–19

  Holden, Inez 211

  Holy Cross Mission, Liberia 122, 123

  Hong Kong 441

  Hoover, Herbert 40

  Hopkinson, Tom 50

  Hostovsky, Egon 202, 246

  Huebsch, Ben 8, 9, 10

  Hugo, Victor 404

  The Human Factor (Greene): secret ink 118; reading Trollope in Africa 134–5; portrayal of parents 150; Greene’s liking for West Africa 153; pub lunches 179

  Huu, Tran Van 367

  Huu-Tu, Bishop Le 390–1, 484

  ‘I Do Not Believe’ (Greene) 231

  India 384

  ‘Invitation du Voyage’ (Baudelaire) 369, 371

  Ireland: bans The Heart of the Matter 303

  Irish Republican Army 33

  It’s a Battlefield (Greene) xix, 89, 212

  James, Henry: parodies 31–2, 252

  Jameson, Storm 36

  Jerrold, Douglas 186, 187, 197; on Greene the publisher 192; working relationship with Greene 198, 199; disagreement with Greene over Powell 201–2

  Jews 11

  John, Otto 178

  Jollye, Mr 414–15, 475

  Jones, Evelyn 171

  Journey Without Maps (Greene) xx, 91, 122, 212; similar walk from Freetown 131–2

  Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw) 47, 205–6

  Kago, ‘General’ 463–4

  Kee, Robert: A Crowd is Not Company 198

  Kennedy, Charles Stuart 440

  Kennedy, John F. 422

  Kenya 461–9

  Keyes, Evelyn 305, 307

  Keyes, Frances Parkinson 189, 198 KGB 494–5, 496

  Kimathi, Sir Dedan 463–4, 465

  Kingsmill, Hugh 197–8, 200, 201

  Knightley, Phillip, 83

  Koestler, Arthur 438

  Korda, Sir Alexander: The Fallen Idol 239; The Third Man (Greene) 242, 243; invites Greene to Elsewhere 334–5,376–8, 382, 383–4; sketched in Loser Takes All 381; helps SIS 487–8; death 507; saves Greene from suicide 507

  Kreuger, Ivar xix–xx

  Kruger, Herr 4

  Laffont, Robert 303

  Lagos 106–10

  Lam Swee 343–4

  Lancaster, Donald 488

  Lansdale, Colonel Edward 416–17, 423

  Lasky, Victor 445

  De Lattre, Bernard 390, 481

  De Lattre de Tassigny, General Jean 360–2, 366–7, 397; Phat Diem and loss of son 390, 481; death 421; suspects Greene and Wilson of spying 481–7; ill health 483

  Lavater, Johann Kasper 481

  The Lawless Roads (Greene) 3, 8, 186, 212

  Le Carré, John 489

  Le Van Hoach 405

  Lehmann, John 17

  Lehmann, Rosamond 77–8

  Leigh, Vivien 382, 384, 499

  Leitch, David, 83

  Leroy, Colonel 417–18, 419

  Lewis, D.B. Wyndham 197

  Liberia xx, 122

  Liebling, A.J. 413, 420, 423, 429–30

  ‘The Lieutenant Died Last’ (Greene) 37; film version Went the Day Well 89–90 Life (magazine) 262; Greene becomes India correspondent 199–200; Malaya article 341, 350, 356; photographers on the spot 429–30; Greene’s reason to visit Vietnam 483–4

  Linnit, Bill: production of Brighton Rock 159–61, 163

  Litkie, Billy 351–2

  The Living Room (Greene) 445; Greene writes 450–1; Stockholm and reviews 451–4; British tour 454–7

  Lock, Sir Tan Chen
g 506–7

  London: pre-war atmosphere 4–10; wartime emigration 20; the Blitz 46–54; Wednesday, 16 April 1941 raid 55–9; new bombing campaign 154; V rockets 184–6, 190–1, 205

  London After Dark (radio programme) 48

  London Can Take It 48

  ‘London in Spring’ (Greene, BBC commission) 78–9

  Loser Takes All (Greene): Korda 381

  The Lost Illusion see The Fallen Idol.

  Low, David 23, 59, 167

  Lowndes, Marie Belloc 189–90

  Luling, Sylvia 320

  Lundkvist, Artur 451–4

  Lunn, Arnold 189

  Mabey, C.J. 140

  MacDonald, Malcolm 342

  Mackenzie, Compton 247

  Mackenzie, Mrs Compton 64

  Mackenzie family 102–3, 105

  Mackie, Father 136–7, 151

  MacNeice, Louis 461

  Malaya: Hugh invites Greene 339; Greene arrives 340–1; emergency/War of the Running Dogs 341–4, 345–6, 351–7; Greene’s visit 344–6, 348–57; Gurkha patrol 354–7

  The Man Within (Greene) xviii–xix; Vivien 230–1; sin and repentance 283

  Mantichorian Society xvii

  Maritain, Madame: The Golden Measure 213

  Martindale, Rev. C.C. 284, 298–9

  Martyn, Dr John 102–4

  Masaryk, Jan 246, 247

  Masaryk, Thomas 246

  Masters, David 189

  Matthew, Bishop David 39, 341

  Matthew, Revd Gervase 39

  Mau Mau rebellion 461–9

  Maugham, W. Somerset 210

  Mauriac, Francois 39, 42, 312; A Woman of the Pharisees 194; Greene enlists for E & S 194–6; writes preface to The Power and the Glory 195; A Nest of Vipers 196; influence on Greene 196

  McCarran Act 437–9, 443, 472; Chaplin and 443–5; Greene attacks 446–9

  McCarthy, Senator Joseph 437, 442–3, 444, 445

  McClintock, Robert 438

  McFall, Frances 220

  McGill, Father 467, 469

  Melchett, Lady 219, 223, 259, 320

  Menzies, Sir Stuart (‘C’) 171–2

  Mexico xxi, 3, 41

  MI6 see British Intelligence

  Mills, (Sir) John 160

  Milne, Tim 167, 182

  The Ministry of Fear (Greene) 162, 212; Greene’s Blitz experience 49, 53–4; Greene writes 145–7; wartime publishing risks 146–7; Greene still insecure after 188

  Ministry of Information 35–8, 51; Coward tours world for 72–3