The Life of Graham Greene (1939-1955)
Page 72
Modin, Yuri 495
Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty 16
Montagu, Elizabeth 243–4, 250, 252
Montgomery, General Bernard (later Viscount) 166
‘Montgomery, Mrs’ 192–4
Moor, Dottoressa 247, 507
Moore, Peter 499
Morals and Marriage (Gilby) 380
Moravia, Alberto 438
Morgan, Charles 141–2, 303
Morrison, Herbert 36
Mortimer, Raymond 297, 457
Morton, H.V. 21, 36
Moutet, Anne-Elizabeth 494
Muggeridge, Kitty 219
Muggeridge, Malcolm: on Dorothy Glover 19, 23; intelligence work 35, 36, 38, 83, 168–9; the Blitz 52, 53; on loss of Clapham house 63, 64, 65; on Greene’s other side 68; accompanies Greene to Windmill 71; on St Albans 167, 169; not a great agent 170; meets Mauriac 194; on Greene’s happiness at Eyre & Spottiswoode 196–7; Greene and Powell dispute 200, 201; on Catherine Walston 219; Greene compares US and Soviet Union 474
Murphy, Revd John 297–8, 299
Murrow, Edward R. 48
Mussolini, Benito 46, 205
My Silent War (Philby) 178, 489, 491
The Name of Action (Greene) xix
Narayan, R.K. 197
Neal, George 138
A Nest of Vipers (Greene) 196
Newall, Maria 465–7
Newsweek 472–3
Nguyen Phan Long 260, 367
Nguyen Van Tam 367
Night and Day (magazine) xx–xxi
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) 312
Nineteen Stories (Greene) 211, 239
No Time for Comedy (Berhman) 69
Nobel Prizes 339, 452
Norfolk, Captain Stanley 296
Norway 40
Nottingham Journal xviii
Oates, Titus 444, 445
O’Borke, Police Sergeant 461
O’Brien, Conor Cruise 472
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) 88, 490
Oldfield, Maurice 482, 494
Olivier, Laurence 382, 384
One Hundred Days (Greene) 9, 10
Orwell, George 190; Animal Farm 210–11; dislikes Greene’s religion 211; finds The Heart of the Matter incredible 299; 1984 312
Our Man in Havana (Greene) 109; irritation with spying 123–4; catches fantasy of intelligence 169; Greene uses C and Ryder Street 171–2; agents as models 172–4
Oxford: Greene family 44, 61, 88–9; Blitz 60
Oxford University (Balliol College) xvii–xviii
Page, Bruce, 83
Painter, George 301
Pakenham, Desmond 213
Panama Flag (Greene) 11
Paramount Studios: A Gun for Sale 146; Ministry of Fear 148
Paris Match 377, 395–7
Paul VI, Pope: reads The Power and the Glory 43
Peacock, Kim: Under One Roof 70
Peake, Mervyn 197; Rhymes without Reason 189
Pearn, Pollinger & Higham Literary Agents 9–10; David Higham 23, 187, 201; Nancy Pearn 29, 36; deal with the BBC 78–9; wartime work 89
Pearson, Hesketh 197
Peck, Tom 419, 430; changes visa 439–40
Péguy, Charles 283, 470
penicillin racket 251
Peter Pan (Barrie) 142
Pettigrew, Kathleen 171
Philby, Kim 104; on Greene in Africa 119, 120–1, 130, 154; St Albans 167, 168; admired by others in intelligence 168; St Albans 169; recruitment 170; OBE and respect 172; works against separate peace 177–8; My Silent War 178, 489, 491; Hitler assassination plot 178–9; relationship with Greene 179–81; Aileen Furse and four children 180; KGB 181, 183, 491, 494–5, 496; Greene’s resignation 181–3; Greene’s continued friendship 488–96; Ryder Street intelligence work 489–91; Greene compares to Catholic spies 491–2; Greene visits in Moscow 492–3; death 493; triple agent? 494–6
Pick, Frank 38, 51, 90
Pizzardo, Cardinal Giuseppe 42, 43
Pollinger, Laurence see also Pearn, Pollinger & Higham Literary Agents.: recommends Canada 20–1; pushes The Power and the Glory 41; announces Hawthornden prize 141; The Ministry of Fear 146–8; Greene’s return from Africa 154; production of Brighton Rock 160–2; irritated by Greene’s elusiveness 165
Polyanin, Michael 438
Pope, Alexander 69, 293
Portman, Eric 455, 456
Portugal: ships smuggle diamonds 122–3; Greene at Portuguese intelligence desk 168–78; allows German intelligence 175–6
The Potting Shed (Greene) 504; Marion Greene and 150, 152
Powell, Anthony: on Greene as publisher 188; on Jerrold 197; John Aubrey and Greene 200–3
The Power and the Glory (Greene) xiii, 212, 301; travels in Mexico 3; Herr Kruger part inspiration 4; Tench 8; Greene outlines for Vivien 12–13; Greene writes 14, 29, 30, 192; sin also serves 35; publication 39; initial sales low 39–42; Catholic Church condemns 42–3; wins Hawthornden prize 141–2, 184; linked with The Lawless Roads 186; Mauriac writes preface 195
Powys, T.F. 116
Prague 245–6
Priestley, J.B. xix, 38
HMS Prince of Wales 93
Prince of Wales Theatre 71
The Prisoner of Toulon (Wintle) 189
Pritchett, Mary 148, 270
Pryce-Jones, Alan 458
Pushkin, Alexander 91
The Quiet American (Greene): goodbye to a wife 276; bayoneted constable 357; Saigon 365, 366; opium smoking 370–1; reportage about Vietnam 372–6; Fowler 386–7; bombing raid 387–9; communist infiltration 391; Phat Diem 392, 394–7; Larry Allen as Granger 398–402; Cao Dai 402,404–5; Vivien 405–9; models for Phuong 409–11; Pyle’s models 412–20, 474–5; publication and reviews 413, 472–5; Greene writes 417, 502–3; Thé and the third force 422–3; bicycle bombs 424–5, 426–9, 433–4; Fowler and Greene 474–5; guidebook for journalists 475; Greene’s portrayal of Americans 478–80
Quisling, Vidkun 40
Radio Security Service (RSS) 173
Raine, Kathleen 306
Rattigan, Terence 248
Reed, Carol: collaboration on The Fallen Idol 239–41; with Greene in Vienna 249, 291; Greene travels to US with 253–5
HMS Repulse 93
Reynolds, Quentin: London Can Take It 48
Rhymes without Reason (Peake) 189
Richardson, Ralph 306–7
Richelieu (battleship) 119–21
Richey, Michael 37, 247
Richmond, Kenneth xvii
Richmond, Zoe xvii
Rickards, Jocelyn 500
Robinson, David 443
Rodgers, Richard: The Heart of the Matter 304, 313, 314, 315
Roman Catholic Church: Mexico compared to Chelsea 3–4; condemns The Power and the Glory 42–3; priests advise Vivien about separation 284; Catholics upset by suicide and sex 294–5; Vietnam 373–5, 389–90, 392–3, 397,471; McCarthyism and 442–3; Titus Oates 444; Lundkvist’s attacking review 452–4; cool reception for The Living Room 456; Colette’s funeral 470–1; Greene compares Catholic spies to Philby 491–2
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin 166
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 205
Ross, Noel 344
Rothenstein, Elizabeth 267
Rothenstein, John 267
Rothschild, Barbara 225
Rudd, Adele 302–3
Rumour at Nightfall (Greene) xix
Russia see Soviet Union.
Sackville-West, Edward 457; reviews The Heart of the Matter 294, 295, 297; helps with The End of the Affair 345
Saki: The Unbearable Bassington 190
Salan, General 394–5, 431–2
Salazar, Dr Antonio de Oliviera 175–6
San Juan, Puerto Rico 447–8
Sayers, Dorothy 36–7
Scott, Sir Robert 461–2
Secret Agent in Spain (H. Greene) 84
Seghers, Anna: Transit Visa 189
Self-abandonment to Divine Providence (de Caussade) 329
Selznick, David O. 239; seems
bewildered by The Third Man 253–4
Shakespeare, William 100, 205
Shute, Nevil 210
Simpson, Howard 423, 476
Singapore 348
Sizaire, Colonel 393, 394–5
Smollet, Peter (H.P. Smolka) 243, 251
Soldati, Mario 213, 248, 454–5
A Sort of Life (Greene) 234
Soskin, Paul 164
‘The Soupsweet Land’ (Greene) 103
South Wind (Douglas) 247
Soviet Union: separate peace 177–8; Russian zone in Vienna 249–50; and Greene’s ‘anti-Americanism’ 473
Spain, Nancy 472
Speaight, Robert 195, 227, 262
Spectator 29, 84, 110; Trench wins competition 31–2; Greene as literary editor 44–5, 51, 64–5; Greene does arts section 69–78
Spender, Stephen 35
Springer, Paul 418–19
Stamboul Train (Greene) xiv, xix, 89, 212
Stannard, Martin 383
Starkie, Enid 195
Stauffenberg, Colonel von 179, 182–3
Steegmuller, Francis 247
Stein, Gertrude 96
Stout, Rex 198
Straight, Belinda 220, 221
Strauss, Dr Eric 318, 331–3, 507
‘The Strays’ (Greene/Trench) 50
Sulzberger, C.L. 367
Dr Sun Yat Sen 404
Sutro, Gillian 212
Sutro, John 455; Anglo-Texas Society 457–60
Sweden 40; The Living Room 451–4
Swift, Jonathan 166
Sykes, Charles 37
Sykes, Christopher 472
Sylvaine, Vernon: Women Aren’t Angels 72
Tam, the Tiger of Cailay 367
Taylor, John 488
Temple, Doris 127–30
Temple, Shirley xx–xxi, 3
Thames Television 66
The, Colonel Trinh Minh 402–3, 405, 417, 476; the third force 422–3; central to The Quiet American 423; bicycle bombs 425–6, 430–3; The Quiet American 426–9
‘The Ballad of Graham Greene’ (Coward) 73–6
Then a Soldier (Cottrell) 189
The Third Man (Greene): film success 241, 301; conception and research 241–6; Greene writes 246, 255; Greene researches Vienna 249–52
Thompson, Francis 359
Thomson, George Malcolm 301, 303
‘The Tick of the Clock’ (Greene) 112
Tilsley, Frank: Champion Road 189
The Times: Greene works for xviii
Tontons Macoutes 508
Too, C.C. 343
Topping, Audrey 371–2, 373, 402
Topping, Seymour 360–1, 366, 368, 371–2
Trang Trinh 404
Transit Visa (Seghers) 189
Travels with My Aunt (Greene) 322
‘Trench, Hilary’: Jamesian letter 31–2; poem about Finland 40; expression of Greene’s other side 67
Trevor-Roper, Hugh (later Lord Dacre) 171–2
Trollope, Anthony: The Warden, 134; Barchester Towers 134
Trollope, Father xviii
Turgenev, Ivan 421, 508
Turnbull, Peter 129
Turner, Father Vincent 226
Turner, Revd Vincent 219, 287
Tutin, Dorothy 455, 456
Under One Roof (Peacock) 70
United States: enters war against Japan 91; Vietnam 359,361, 420, 423; CIA in Vietnam 429–34, 485, 486; visa troubles 437–41, 445–9; McCarthyism 442–3; attacks Charlie Chaplin 443–6; Anglo-Texas Society 457–60; reviews of The Quiet American 472–5; Americans in Vietnam 475–80
Up and Doing 70
Ustinov, Klop 176–7
Valli, Alida 252
Verschoyle, Derek 15, 44
Vienna: post-war condition 242, 243–4; Greene’s research 243–5, 292; trip to Russian zone 249–50; Greene’s second trip 249–52; penicillin racket 251
Vietnam: opium 268–71, 506; historical background 359–63; Saigon 364–6; terrorism 366–8; The Quiet American as reportage 372–6; Greene’s second visit 384, 385–9; Catholics 389–90, 392–3, 397, 471, 484–5; Phat Diem 389–97, 481, 484; US military aid 397; Cao Dai 402–5,423, 425–6, 432; French lose hope 421; search for the third force 421–3; bicycle bombs and the CIA 423–34; Greene leaves 441; French withdraw 471–2; Americans 475–80; Greene and Wilson suspected of spying 481–7; Greene’s last visit 506
Viking Publishers: The Confidential Agent (Greene) 14–15
Vosper, Margery 159, 160, 164
Vy, Nguyen Van, General 423
Walker, Arthur 342
Wall, Barbara 34–5, 37, 38
Wallace, Nelly 18
Walpole, Sir Hugh 42
Walston, Bill 259
Walston, Elizabeth 223
Walston, Harry 253, 291, 319; marries Catherine 220, 222–4; Greene’s jealousy 311; restricts Greene’s visits 316, 327; Catherine’s fake pregnancy 320–2; Greene battles to take Catherine 322–31; Catherine’s feelings for 325; saves marriage 332; threatens divorce 378; upset about The End of the Affair 379–80; rich socialist 383; unsuccessful at politics 502; and Gilby 504
Walston, James Patrick 321
Walston, Lady Catherine (née Crompton) xiii; falls in love over onions 21–2; personality 219, 220–3, 258–9; life before Greene 219–24; meets Greene 223–4, 226–7; effect on Vivien 224–6; attention to Greene family 227–30; symbolises peace 237; Greene’s longing for 243;Capri with Greene 246–9; Greene’s passion 257–8, 262–3; many affairs 267–9, 331, 504; Vivien finds in Beaumont Street house 271–2, 274; disliked by Marion Greene 276–7; Greene’s insecurity 280, 302; the Greenes’ separation 283–4; Dorothy writes to Greene about 288–9; religion 298, 502; Greene’s human Africa 310; feels Greene near breakdown 316–18; possible fake pregnancy 320–2; Greene battles to win 322–31; troublesome affair continues 334–6, 375–6; Greene senses loss of 371, 372; Harry threatens divorce 378; dedications from Graham 379; suggests intellectual friendship 380–1; visit with Greene at Waugh’s 381–3; wants temporary separation 383–4, 407; affair goes underground 497–8, 500, 502–3; inspiration 508
Walston, Lady Florence 222
Walston, Sir Charles 222
Walston, Susan 259
Walston, William 223
The Warden (Trollope) 134
Warner, Rex 307
Waugh, Evelyn 472, 507; Ministry of Information 37; offers to help Greene against Church 43; rejects money 190; Catherine and Greene 258, 259, 381–3; sees Greene in low state 277; reviews The Heart of the Matter 294–6, 297; Greene responds to review 299; advises Greene to continue with God 437; on Chaplin defence 445; The Living Room 454, 456; scornful of Greene’s defence of Colette 471; on Greene’s contact with Philby 494
Ways of Escape (Greene): Greene sickened by interrogation 124–5; trip up-country 131; Freetown 153; Vivien and Dorothy 234; opium dens 369; CIA and bicycle bombs 429–30
Weaver, Stella 44, 61, 142, 208, 405–6
Weicker, Lowell 268
Welles, Orson 250, 252; peace and cuckoo clock speech 254
Went the Day Well see ‘The Lieutenant Died Last’.
Wertz, Consul-General 169
West, Mae 291
Westerman, Paul 339–40
Westerman, Yvonne 339–40
Wheeler, A.H. 349–50, 488
White, Antonia 187
Williams, Emlyn 160
Williams, Harcourt 164
Willich, Father 373–4, 393
Wilson, A.N. 493
Wilson, Trevor 363, 371, 373, 374, 431, 441; St Albans 167; witnesses Le Huu Tu’s speech 390; de Lattre suspects of spying 481–7; kicked out of Vietnam 486–7; on Greene and women 498–9
Windmill Theatre 71
Wintle, Colonel: The Prisoner of Toulon 189
Wix, Charlie 59
A Wolf’s Progress (Broughton) 190
A Woman of the Pharisees (Mauriac) 194
Women Aren’t Angels (Sylvaine) 72
World War Two: pre-war atmosphere 4–10; Molo
tov-Ribbentrop treaty 16; war begins for Britain 17–18, 33; Dunkirk38; French occupation 38; Hitler spreads through Europe 39–40; Britain braces for invasion 43–4; the Blitz 46–54, 55–9; eastern war zone 91; Prince of Wales and Repulse sunk 93; danger in sea travel 96; Vichy Francein Dakar 121; de Gaulle in Africa 130; rationing 143; war in the desert 166; worry about separate peace 177–8; V-bombs 184–6, 190–1; Polish massacre and liberation of Paris 190; VE day comes 205–7
Yevtushenko, Yevgeni 494–5
Young, Francis Brett 247
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