Papa Spy

by Jimmy Burns

  Tom Burns with publishing colleagues on a trip in 1929

  Fr D’Arcy (front, second from left) at the opening of Campion Hall, with (behind him) Evelyn Waugh, (to his left) the Duke of Alba, (second from right) Mary Herbert and others

  Hilaire Belloc

  G. K. Chesterton

  Evelyn Waugh

  Graham Greene

  Gabriel Herbert climbing mountains during the 1930s

  Civil War in Madrid, 1936: Mabel (left) as a volunteer nurse

  July 1936: Red Cross workers carry a victim of the Civil War fighting in Barcelona by stretcher to a waiting ambulance

  Gregorio Marañón Junior as a Franco volunteer before he worked in pro-Ally progaganda

  1936: Mabel’s Civil War ID card

  Spanish Civil War refugees aboard HMS Active, bound for Marseille

  Christmas 1936, voyage to exile: Francis Warrington-Strong, the Naval Officer on board HMS Active

  May 1937: A Nazi parade aboard the German Cap Arcona as watched by Mabel and her father, on their return voyage from South America

  Nelly Hess, the Jewish girlfriend who disappeared in German occupied Paris

  1940: Mabel (left) with friends in German occupied Paris

  June 14th, 1940: Dr Gregorio Marañón and colleague in Paris as the Germans march in

  Irish journalist and Conservative Minister of Information, Brendan Bracken, looks on as Harry Lloyd Hopkins and Winston Churchill shake hands outside 10 Downing Street

  Captain Alan Hillgarth, naval attaché and Churchill’s eyes and ears

  Two nurses watching British sculptor Eric Rowton Gill at work

  David Jones, poet and artist

  Ann Bowes-Lyon, 1937

  Paul Richey in his Spitfire

  Michael Richey in Naval uniform, aboard HMS Goodwill

  Courting Royalty: Burns and Ann Bowes-Lyon in 1938

  January 1941: St Paul’s during the Blitz. Nearby publishing houses, including Tom Burns’s, were destroyed.

  Niños mendigos

  French refugees c. 1940 fl eeing the Nazi invasion to Spain

  Demonstration of the Falangist Youth. Spain, 1941

  Nazi leader German Chancellor Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Francisco Franco at Hendaye train station on the French–Spanish border, 23 October 1940

  Tom Burns, winter in Madrid, 1941

  German press attaché in Madrid, Hans Lazar

  Admiral Canaris, German spy chief

  On Her Majesty’s Service: Burns with Spanish diplomat and propagandist the Conde de Foxa

  Kim Philby

  Guy Burgess

  Anthony Blunt (left) at Cambridge

  Enriqueta Harris with her brother Tomás in southern France in the 1930s

  Serrano Súñer, General Franco and Mussolini

  Alberto Martín Artajo, Spanish Foreign Minister, speaking to the Spanish military

  Luis Calvo’s identity card at the time of his arrest by the British

  Alcazar de Velasco, Spanish press attaché and suspected German agent

  Spanish journalist Carlos Sentís in Germany, reporting on the Nuremburg trials

  Spanish wartime journalist Felipe Fernández-Armesto

  The Duke of Alba, Spanish wartime ambassador

  The Carcano sisters, daughters of Argentina’s wartime London ambassador

  1943: ‘Tana’ Alba, Duchess of Montoro, by the pool in Albury Park

  Tom Burns: Madrid, 1943

  Mabel Marañón: Madrid, 1943

  The Windsors on their arrival in Madrid, 1940

  Tom Burns with embassy staff

  Madrid, May 1943: Tom Burns plays host to Leslie Howard and Spanish actress Conchita Montenegro

  Mabel at Belmonte’s ranch

  February 1945: The Burnses with embassy friends in a ‘safe’ restaurant on outskirts of Madrid.

  At a bullfight in the Spring of 1945: Mabel and Tom with Belmonte, his daughter Yola, and the Spanish sculptor Sebastián Miranda

  The Burns wedding, April 1944: Mabel with Sir Samuel Hoare

  Hoare’s wife Lady Maud with Mabel’s father Dr Gergorio Marañón at the Burns wedding

  Juan Belmonte, bullfighter and best man, signs the register

  The newly married Burnses leaving the Church of Los Jeronimos

  Cutting the wedding cake

  The wedding cake made by Mrs Taylor, showing Spanish and British flags

  The reception: cocktails by Chicote

  May 1944: on honeymoon on the Costa del Sol

  May 1944: Burns at Arthur Yencken’s funeral in Madrid

  8th May, 1945, Madrid: British embassy staff celebrate VE day

  The author with his father

  Appendix

  Spanish Secret Police report alleging that Burns is the Head of British propaganda and chief spy in Spain. (Franco Archive)

  Memo from MI5 Iberian officer Brooman-White to Kim Philby reporting on Tom Burns’s activities. (The National Archives)

  MI6 memo signed by Kim Philby about a meeting between Spanish journalist Luis Calvo and German Press attaché in Madrid, Hans Lazar. (The National Archives)

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  National Archives, Kew, London

  London Library

  Garrick Club archive

  Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (Madrid)

  Hemeroteca Municipal del Ayuntamiento de Madrid

  Museo de Historia de Madrid

  Fundación Sabino Arana

  Fundación Francisco Franco

  Archivo EFE

  Georgetown University Library, Washington DC

  John Burns Library, Boston, Mass.

  National Archives, Washington DC

  Fundación Marañón

  Private collections

  T. F. Burns papers

  Mabel Marañón papers

  Templewood papers, University Library, Cambridge

  Conde de Fontanar papers

  Sir Victor Mallet papers

  Churchill Archives, Cambridge

  Rosemary Say papers

  Peter Laing papers

  Gabriel Herbert papers

  Gómez-Beare papers

  Walter Bell papers

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  The Times

  Financial Times

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