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ENDNOTES
1. ‘For providing information about events…’ The Thirties, p. 267.
2. Details of funeral taken from notice in Daily Telegraph, 23 August 1940.
3. ‘He is the sort of person…’ Barbara Wall in the Catholic Herald, 30 August 1940.
4. ‘A number of colleagues…’ letter in Daily Telegraph, 23 August 1940.
5. ‘He was one of the few…’ The Times, 2 September 1940.
6. ‘I am very sorry indeed…’ letter from Frank Foley to Kathleen Reynolds, 23 August 1940.
7. ‘Struggled hard to fulfil…’ A Prophet at Home, p. 99.
8. ‘Before Sydenham became…’ Sydenham and Forest Hill Past, p. 57.
9. The UK’s rule over India would outlast Reynolds by seven years, ending in 1947.
10. The modern street address of Blomfield House is 129 Widmore Road.
11. Author’s interview with Anthony Hewson, who recalled being told the anecdote, 10 April 2015.
12. Details on London Electric Lighting Company taken from Pall Mall Gazette, 29 September 1892.
13. Governess anecdote in The Gondola, p. 45. The book’s lead character is Richard Venning, whom Reynolds appears to have based on himself: he was a Catholic journalist, multilingual, and spent several years working in Russia. It is a helpful source of autobiographical clues.
14. Details on tutors from interview with Ronald Reynolds in Catholic Herald, 23 August 1940.
15. Alumni details taken from Dulwich College website: http://bit.ly/1Ix9rts
16. Curriculum details provided by Dulwich College archivist.
17. Details of Ronald Reynolds provided by Malvern College archivist.
18. ‘Departures from Kingstown per Royal Mail steamers’ Freeman’s Journal, 29 September 1894.
19. Details on Swete from his entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
20. Details on Ryle from his entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
21. ‘Piously, soberly and honestly…’ letter from Cambridge fellows to Lord Bishop of Durham, May 1896.
22. ‘I entreat you…’ letter from Reynolds to Cuthbert Reynolds, 23 December 1925.
23. Ordination reported in Northern Echo, 1 June 1896.
24. ‘I hardly think…’ letter from Reynolds to Green, 31 August 1897.
25. Details on church controversies from interview with Ronald Reynolds in Catholic Herald, 23 August 1940.
26. ‘Popish leanings’ author’s interview with Anthony Hewson, 10 April 2015.
27. Details of Reynolds family conversions from Leslie Reynolds obituary in The Tablet, 17 May 1919.
28. Details on Carlyle’s order from article by Rene Kollar: http://bit.ly/2d3E6YS
29. ‘Forces itself on the attention’ My Russian Year, p. 2.
30. ‘God and His Mother…’ My Russian Year, p. 3.
31. ‘A magnificent city…’ My Russian Year, p. 13.
32. ‘Nobody ever loved a flat’ My Russian Year, p. 15, p. 19.
33. ‘Russian is soft…’ My Russian Year, p. 140.
34. Details on conditions in Russia when Reynolds arrived from Russia: A Complete History, pp. 161–5.
35. ‘Russification policies,’ The Catholic Church and Russia, p. 62.
36. Details on Daily News taken from Charles Dickens, A Life, pp. 172–5.
37. ‘The echoes of…’ My Russian Year, p. 22.
38. ‘What a chance…’ My Russian Year, p. 33.
39. ‘A bomb has just…’ My Russian Year, p. 105.
40. Account of murder at restaurant in My Russian Year, p. 44.
41. ‘It is going very badly…’ Daily News, 6 September 1906.
42. Details on Munro influences from his entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
43. Account of Munro siblings’ ordeal during Bloody Sunday, Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro, pp. 133–4.
44. ‘The Russian government…’ My Russian Year, p. 110.
45. ‘In Russian theory…’ My Russian Year, p. 79.
46. ‘When [Nicholas II] went to Poltava…’ My Russian Year, p. 81.
47. ‘When Nicholas II, on his own initiative…’ My Russian Year, p. 138.
48. ‘The elementary safeguards…’ My Russian Year, p. 103.
49. ‘I did not understand…’ My Russian Year, p. 100.
50. ‘Europe’s best dressed correspondent’ interview with Ronald Reynolds in Catholic Herald, 23 August 1940.
51. ‘I have been to…’ My Russian Year, p. 56.
52. ‘It is a matter…’ My Russian Year, p. 62.
53. ‘When I left…’ My Russian Year, p. 68.
54. ‘Journalism was demoralising…’ The Gondola, p. 27.
55. ‘It is the devil!’ Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro, p. 181.
56. ‘Exceedingly prosperous…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 14.
57. ‘Berlin in 1912…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 15.
58. ‘In summer, the innumerable trees…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 17.
59. ‘For the price of…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 17.
60. ‘A haunt of…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 17.
61. ‘With his mop…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 18.
62. ‘The astonishing thing is that Mr Reynolds,’ wrote one reviewer in the The Spectator, ‘[spent his] years so happily that they went as quickly as one year, and he has been able to tell his story in Messrs. Mills and Boon’s Library of Charming Years.’
63. ‘Conversational, easy…’ The Times Literary Supplement, 24 January 1913.
64. ‘By far the most…’ Daily Telegraph, 24 January 1913.
65. ‘We have rarely…’ Manchester Guardian, 10 February 1913.
66. ‘The enchantment…’ The Gondola, p. 11.
67. ‘Exceedingly handsome…’ The Gondola, p. 150.
68. ‘Silly tricks’ The Gondola, p. 200.
69. ‘Were I not…’ The Gondola, p. 258.
70. ‘Unjust’ The Gondola, p. 256.
71. ‘In view of the…’ Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette, 20 January 1914.
72. ‘Found himself in a sweat’ Reynolds tribute to Munro in The Toys of Peace, p. xxi.
73. ‘He was determined…’ Reynolds tribute to Munro in The Toys of Peace, p. xxi.
74. First World War statistics from Pembroke College Chapel – A Walk-Around Guide.
75. ‘Our confidence in…’ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 16 March 1915.
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bsp; 76. ‘If our friendship…’ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 24 September 1915.
77. ‘Gave interesting particulars…’ Western Daily Press, 23 March 1915.
78. ‘It is impossible…’ Newcastle Journal, 30 September 1915.
79. ‘Swept by flame…’ Birmingham Gazette, 27 July 1915.
80. ‘A Menaced Polish City’ Birmingham Gazette, 20 August 1915.
81. ‘The unity of…’ My Russian Year, p. vii.
82. ‘Has any town…’ Story of Warsaw, p. 20.
83. ‘No Prussian occupation…’ Story of Warsaw, p. 27.
84. Spectator review, 28 August 1915.
85. ‘I have at the moment…’ My Slav Friends, p. 118.
86. ‘Essential unity…’ My Slav Friends, p. 138.
87. ‘Almost to propaganda’ line from ‘An Englishman’s Sketch of Russia’ article in New York Times, 5 November 1916.
88. ‘AA Milne may not have liked MI7, but propaganda played a vital wartime role’ Alan Judd article in Telegraph, 25 April 2013: http://bit.ly/2aYbWPD
89. Armour Against Fate provides a useful organisational chart.
90. ‘Instructed to prepare…’ History of M.I.7 (b), March 1916 – December 1918, Public Record Office.
91. ‘I don’t know…’ Armour Against Fate, p. 303.
92. The Green Book is reproduced in M.I.7b – the discovery of a lost propaganda archive from the Great War.
93. ‘The word propaganda…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 36.
94. ‘The material provided…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 36.
95. ‘War robbed England of him…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 18.
96. ‘They looked as if…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 33.
97. ‘As if they had been presented…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 34.
98. ‘She had not tasted…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 33.
99. ‘All the bells of…’ Daily Mail, 13 April 1921.
100. Notice about Leslie Reynolds in The Tablet, 17 May 1919.
101. ‘They may turn you out…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 36.
102. ‘What No Hun Can Understand’ article in Daily Mail, 8 March 1921.
103. ‘I found everywhere…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 36.
104. ‘We are regarded by…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 40.
105. ‘Of course you hate…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 43.
106. Details from Augusta Victoria funeral taken from When Freedom Shrieked, p. 45.
107. ‘The pleasing qualities of…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 40.
108. ‘It is a tragedy…’ Daily Mail, 24 March 1921.
109. ‘The Bells of Berlin’ article in Daily Mail, 13 April 1921.
110. ‘There are many people who…’ Daily Mail, 11 June 1921.
111. ‘We shall not rest…’ Daily Mail, 13 Sept 1921.
112. ‘There was not a better…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 46.
113. ‘Soldiers in fine uniform…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 46.
114. ‘They ought to give…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 47.
115. ‘Attain eminence, the church…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 47.
116. ‘An inflation of…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 62.
117. ‘An excellent luncheon…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 64.
118. ‘In 1923 I became a billionaire…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 63.
119. ‘An extra six and a half…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 64.
120. ‘Alice in Hunderland (Or, First Steps to German Finance)’ article in Daily Mail, 7 December 1923.
121. ‘Where there was enthusiasm…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 47.
122. ‘The National-Socialists…’ Unreliable Sources, p. 196.
123. ‘Here was a born natural orator…’ Binchy’s words quoted in Guardian online article, 6 May 2016: http://bit.ly/1WdCte5
124. ‘He was holding the masses…’ Ludecke quoted in Ian Kershaw’s Hitler, p. 114.
125. ‘Adolf Hitler has been described…’ The Times, 22 May 1923.
126. ‘Childish, childish’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 54.
127. ‘Hothead of whom…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 54.
128. ‘International Jewish capitalists’ Daily Mail, 23 October 1923.
129. ‘He stared at me…’ Halifax Courier, 16 December 1939.
130. ‘It is not a question…’ Daily Mail, 23 October 1923.
131. ‘I went away thinking…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 55.
132. ‘I am afraid that the truth…’ Daily Mail, 23 October 1923.
133. ‘It was an extraordinary change…’ Halifax Courier, 16 December 1939.
134. ‘It is extremely difficult…’ Halifax Courier, 16 December 1939.
135. Ian Kershaw’s remarks on Daily Mail interview in Hitler, p. 112.
136. ‘Unutterably painful to see…’ Unreliable Sources, p. 203.
137. ‘Whatever have policemen…’ Daily Mail, 27 May 1924.
138. ‘The masses of the people…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 79.
139. ‘There was new life…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 81.
140. ‘The great thing in life…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 83.
141. ‘We went to a great hall…’ Daily Mail, 1 March 1924.
142. ‘Tell me, do all…’ Daily Mail, 27 November 1924.
143. ‘In Berlin one big ball…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 85.
144. ‘Germany with increasing frequency…’ Daily Mail, 26 March 1925.
145. ‘For elegance, distinction, fashion…’ Daily Mail, 17 January 1927.
146. ‘It is remarkable…’ Daily Mail, 12 March 1928.
147. ‘Show a tendency to magnify…’ Daily Mail, 16 April 1928.
148. ‘Germany has been declared as…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 80.
149. ‘Certain to Command…’ Daily Mail, 24 May 1928.
150. ‘The restoration of the political…’ Daily Mail, 2 Sept 1929.
151. ‘Money was being poured…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 80.
152. ‘I had had the impression…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 100.
153. ‘They were faces…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 99.
154. ‘Within the building…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 102.
155. ‘If this cannot be done…’ Daily Mail, 22 September 1930.
156. ‘They represent the rebirth…’ Rothermere article in Daily Mail quoted in The Great Outsiders, p. 291.
157. ‘Hitler’s Special Talk to the Daily Mail’ article in Daily Mail, 27 September 1930.
158. ‘Some became stupidly anti-French…’ The Appeasers, p. 5.
159. ‘No doubt that the Soviet…’ The Appeasers, p. 8.
160. ‘My Terms to the World’ Daily Express article of 28 September 1930, quoted in Unreliable Sources, p. 209.
161. ‘My Hitler Article and its Critics,’ Daily Mail, 2 October 1930.
162. Sales figures from The British Press and Germany, 1936–1939, pp. 32, 56, 75.
163. ‘Dr Brüning: Strongest Man Since Bismarck’ Daily Mail, 4 June 1931.
164. ‘There is not the slightest…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 109.
165. ‘It is very natural…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 109.
166. ‘The man who fought at…’ Daily Mail, 9 March 1932.
167. ‘Hindenburg is today the candidate…’ Daily Mail, 9 March 1932.
168. ‘Germany stands at…’ Daily Mail, 9 March 1932.
169. ‘The jovial little soldier…’ Trail Sinister, p. 105.
170. ‘I know the storm troops…’ Trail Sinister, p. 105.
171. ‘The very first impression…’ Trail Sinister, p. 114.
172. ‘Herr Hitler, your Stabschef…’ Trail Sinister, p. 116.
173. ‘Germany is marching with…’ Delmer’s Daily Express report on 3 May 1931, quoted on p. 117 of Trail Sinister.
174. ‘He just sat there…’ Trail Sinister, p. 148.
175. ‘Ate only vegetab
le…’ Trail Sinister, p. 153.
176. ‘The truth was that…’ Trail Sinister, p. 142.
177. ‘I was up on…’ Trail Sinister, p. 150.
178. ‘His appeal to patriotism…’ Daily Mail, 9 April 1932.
179. Simpson on Rothermere in Unreliable Sources, p. 206.
180. ‘President von Hindenburg has accepted…’ Daily Mail, 3 May 1932.
181. ‘Once let loose…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 112.
182. ‘You have lived…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 10.
183. ‘The old man…’ Daily Mail, 18 July 1932.
184. ‘What have they done…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 32.
185. ‘Applauded without discrimination…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 10.
186. ‘The sobs and indignation…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 33.
187. ‘I did not hear…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 34.
188. ‘Hitler will go down…’ Daily Mail, 18 July 1932.
189. ‘Numbers of Germans…’ Daily Mail, 3 November 1932.
190. ‘One of the cleverest…’ Daily Mail, 3 December 1932.
191. ‘The clique around Hindenburg…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 121.
192. Reference to Ian Colvin remark in his Vansittart in Office, p. 18.
193. ‘Hitler has been well wrapped…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 126.
194. ‘We shall wait and see…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 127.
195. ‘I must confess that…’ Trail Sinister, p. 178.
196. Schoolchildren crying Verrecke, When Freedom Shrieked, pp. 11–12.
197. ‘There they were, standing in thousands…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 140.
198. ‘They were exhibiting themselves…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 140.
199. ‘In less than a month…’ When Freedom Shrieked, pp. 175–76.
200. ‘So they’ve done it…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 144.
201. ‘Beaten by that…’ Trail Sinister, p. 185.
202. ‘Without a doubt…’ Trail Sinister, p. 187.
203. ‘You see this building…’ Trail Sinister, p. 189.
204. ‘I could have that communist…’ Trail Sinister, p. 193.
205. See When Freedom Shrieked p. 144 for account of fire.
206. ‘The police are given…’ Daily Mail, 1 March 1933.
207. ‘In Germany the elections…’ Daily Mail, 7 March 1933.
208. ‘It was the most beautiful…’ When Freedom Shrieked, p. 159.
209. ‘When I arrived…’ When Freedom Shrieked, pp. 160–61.
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