Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica

by Matthew Parker

  49: ‘I just wasn’t allowed to know any black people …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.

  50: ‘a very handsome man …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

  50: ‘pretentious and full of himself’, Patrice Wymore Flynn interview, 8 July 2012.

  50: ‘For God’s sake! That’s the worst insult you can pay a man.’, RWL, 144.

  51: ‘Yes, I’m fucking them both.’, Lycett, 164.

  51: ‘everything starts wrong and goes on wrong…’, Ibid.

  51: ‘an admiring sugar planter’s daughter’, Ann Diary fragment, Amory, 60.

  51: ‘His days of fame …’, Huggins, 87.

  51: ‘If the moral standard of the women can be raised …’, West Indian Review, 9 September 1950, vol. 2, no.19,15.

  51: ‘came in cars, on mules, donkeys and horses.’, Huggins, 117.

  52: ‘the Continental attitude’, Huggins, 150.

  52: ‘nymphomaniac’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 17 April 2013.

  52: ‘the love of the people of Jamaica for me.’, Huggins, 150.

  53: ‘2000 different varieties of flowers’, Horizon.

  53: ‘The most beautiful bird in Jamaica …’, SS, 32.

  54: ‘some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.’, LLD, 271.

  54: ‘the most beautiful large island in the world.’, Pearson, 172.

  54: ‘you drop down, often through a cathedral of bamboo …’, Horizon.

  54: ‘a description that Fleming would reuse ...’, LDD, 271.

  55: ‘dictatorship of white supremacy’, Beckles, Britain’s Black Debt, 3.

  55: ‘the children have yaws on their legs ...’, Pringle, Waters of the West, 45.

  56: ‘ugly’ past…’, Norman Manley’s introduction to omnibus, Roger Mais novels, Jonathan Cape, 1966, vol. v.

  57: ‘The Empire and British rule rest on a carefully nurtured sense of inferiority …’, Sherlock, Manley 160, 27.

  57: ‘nurture a sense of inferiority in the masses’, Public Opinion, 29 May 1943.

  57: ‘Each Jamaican was a smoldering little volcano …’, Spotlight, August 1950, vol. 11, no.8,11.

  57: ‘revolution because of class resentment’, Pringle, Waters of the West, 105.

  58: ‘make our Colonies in the Caribbean good examples …’, Fraser, Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism, 74.

  58: ‘We want bread!’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

  58: ‘I shall never forget the rich people …’, Edna Manley Diary, 28 December 1944,23.

  59: ‘had caused more harm than good …’, Roberts, Jamaica: the Portrait of an Island, 245.

  59: ‘must have been sent out by the Colonial Office …’, Public Opinion, 8 March 1944.

  1948: Lady Rothermere

  61: ‘Bond knew that he was very close to being in love with her.’, DF, (Vintage ed. 2012), 249.

  61: ‘They’d just had the mother and father of all rows ...’, Lycett, 176.

  61: ‘I loved being whipped by you …’, Lycett, 179,

  63: ‘at typical tropical sunset hour.’, Ann Diary fragment, Amory, 60.

  64: ‘Ian always complained that flowers gave him headaches …’, Pearson, 165.

  65: ‘used to leave in a small boat to fish …’, Vickers, ed. Cocktails and Laughter, 99.

  66: ‘determined assaults on her virtue.’, MR, (Penguin Omnibus ed. 2003), 326–7.

  66: ‘strangely uncomfortable.’, Vickers, ed. Cocktails and Laughter, 99.

  67: ‘If you burden yourself with the big-town malaises ...’, Pearson, 172.

  67: ‘I did love it all…’, AF to IF, February 1948, Amory, 68.

  67: ‘a sort of Beau Brummel of the islands.’, 65.

  68: ‘whirling and snapping in the water …’, LLD, 290.

  68: ‘terrible snuffling grunt…’, LLD, 260.

  68: ‘a horrible grunting scrunch’, LLD, 313.

  68: ‘tied up good and firm …’, Pearson, 176.

  68: ‘I do hope the remoteness of Goldeneye …’, AF to IF, February 1948, Amory, 65.

  68: ‘It would be an interesting feat to be faithful…’, AF to IF, 13 February 1948, Amory, 66.

  68: ‘steadfast as a rock’, Lycett, 182.

  69: ‘might serve as a model for new houses in the tropics ...’, Leigh Fermor, The Traveller’s Tree, 360.

  70: ‘extraordinary book’, LLD, 158.

  70: ‘Commander Fleming Gives Modest…’, Gleaner, 6 March 1948.

  70: ‘accepting her duties cheerfully.’, AF to EW, 15 July 1948, Amory, 69.

  70: ‘The spell was cast and held …’, Hoare, Noël Coward, 342.

  71: ‘It is quite perfect…’, Payn & Morley ed., NC Diary, 24 March 1948, 107.

  72: ‘Behind the house are banana plantations …’, Day ed., NC Letters, 540.

  72: ‘and all sorts of tropical deliciousness.’, NC Letters, 546.

  72: ‘I am now a property owner in Jamaica …’, NC Diary, 25 April 1948, 108.

  72: ‘grown over with orchids’, NC Letters, 546.

  72: ‘Somebody’s suddenly gone and bought that ghastly Blue Harbour hotel.’, SS, 33.

  73: ‘as if he were a distinguished member of the opposite sex …’, Quennell quoted in Hoare, Noël Coward, 388.

  72: ‘was always subtly understanding …’, Quennell, Wanton Chase, 151.

  74: ‘a bloody good thing but far too late.’, NC Diary, 30 January 1948, 103.

  74: ‘taxation, controls and certain features …’, Fleming, ‘If I Were Prime Minister’, Spectator, 9 October 1959.

  74: ‘an irrelevant survival…’, Morley, The Private Lives of Noël and Gertie, 270.

  74: ‘a reaffirmation of Britain’s continued great-power status …’, Cannadine, Churchill’s Shadow, 280–1.

  74: ‘a one-man Suez task force.’, Durgnat, A Mirror for England, 153.

  74: ‘benevolent to the point of indifference’, Quennell, Wanton Chase, 161–2.

  75: ‘My darling, there was morphia and pain …’: AF to IF, undated 1948, Amory, 70

  75: ‘making a fuss of her …’, AF to IF, undated 1948, Amory, 71.

  1949: Noël and Ian, Samolo and Jamaica

  77: ‘Empire, family life and the Conservative Party’, Lycett, 192.

  77: ‘The house is entrancing …’, NC Diary, 3 February 1949,123.

  77: ‘As you glide down this river …’, Flynn, Wicked Ways, 333.

  78: ‘Strong Bak Soup’, Sunday Times, 9 January 1955.

  78: ‘enchantingly languid …’, Ibid.

  78: ‘and was vastly entertaining all the way.’, NC diary, 20 February 1949,124.

  78: ‘scandal with a local Bustamante …’, NC Diary, 6 April 1949, 125.

  79: ‘a personality like a battering ram.’, Coward, P&C, 78.

  79: ‘They sing from morning till night…’, Coward, ‘South Sea Bubble’, Play Parade, vi, 117.

  79: ‘industrious and enthusiastic, but…’, P&C, 26.

  79: ‘nip a breadfruit off a tree …’, Coward, ‘South Sea Bubble’, Play Parade vi,. 129.

  80: ‘With that race, that place, that title …’, Barringer, Art and the British Empire, 183.

  80: ‘There is a great deal of sex ...’, P&C, 16.

  80: ‘shopping for silk pyjamas.’, Huggins, 42.

  80: ‘most amusing rhyme about my second daughter, Cherry.’, Huggins, 89.

  80: ‘happy and contented under British rule for so many years …’, Coward, ‘South Sea Bubble’, Play Parade vi, 117.

  81: ‘After the last war British imperialism was too weak …’, Public Opinion, 28 January 1950.

  81: ‘old fashioned Noël Coward …’, Lesley, The Life of Noël Coward, 287.

  81: ‘Tourism has brought the island undreamed of prosperity …’, P&C, 44.

  81: ‘This coast is being bought up like mad’, NC Letters, 546.

  81: ‘rash of millionaire hotels’, DN, 236.

  81: ‘the wealthier members of the plantocracy …�
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  82: ‘undoubtedly the most fashionable resort…’, Chapman, Pleasure Island, 158.

  82: ‘In a cool elevation overlooking the sea’, advertisement in West Indian Review, September 1950.

  82: ‘on top of the cliff, with a breath-taking view of the Caribbean …’, Chapman, Pleasure Island, 152–3.

  82: ‘of England’s powerful Kemsley Press’, Chapman, Pleasure Island, 138.

  82: ‘Mr E., being Italian, has excellent manners …’, Simmons, Sunspots, 48.

  84: ‘Costing a quarter of a million pounds …’, Issa, MrJamaica, 92.

  84: ‘In 1951, Jamaica played host to nearly 100,000 visitors …’, Taylor, To Hell with Paradise, 160.

  85: ‘twin-dieseled Chriscraft motorboat’, SS, 41.

  86: ‘naked on Noël’s …’, Hoare, Noël Coward, 399.

  86: ‘Cargill himself complains he lost his girlfriend …’, Cargill, Jamaica Farewell, 57.

  86: ‘By day you idle on a beach …’, Waugh, Notes from the Sugar Islands, 203.

  86: ‘The atmosphere is a compound of Wall Street …’, Leigh Fermor, The Traveller’s Tree, 362.

  86: ‘Quite quite horrid …’, NC Letters, 543.

  87: ‘an epidemic of homosexuality’, Public Opinion, 28 May 1938.

  87: ‘there is hardly a lissom chambermaid …’, P&C, 52.

  87: ‘evil example … sybaritic torpor …’, Taylor, To Hell with Paradise, 195–6.

  87: ‘The labourers will not work for economical wages …’, ‘Jamaica the Beautiful’, Dr. Josiah Oldfield, Spotlight, August 1950, 6.

  88: ‘a colour bar that is non-existent in law …’, Leigh Fermor, The Traveller’s Tree, 345.

  88: ‘That’s how we keep out the niggers …’, Morris Cargill interview filmed for Oracabessa oral history project, 1997.

  88: ‘in some barred by means of adroit subterfuges.’, Roberts, Jamaica: the Portrait of an Island, 188

  89: ‘Call the police. Call the army …’, quoted in Thompson, An Eyefor the Tropics, 204.

  89: ‘Tourists were people with money …’, Douglas Waite interview, 21 June 2013.

  89: ‘We saw water, electricity, motor cars ...’, Ramsay Dacosta interview, 3 July 2012.

  89: ‘with homes of their own …’, Gleaner, 24 June 1949.

  90: ‘in a blaze of Jamaican publicity …’, NC Letters, 546.

  91: ‘spends all his time doing underwater fishing …’, P&C, 59.

  91: ‘bleak, overmasculine barrack’, P&C, 119.

  91–2: ‘find himself caught up in an over-social marriage …’,P&C, 172.

  92: ‘I’ve funked everything these last few days …’, IF to AF, 20 February 1949, Amory, 77–9.

  92: ‘I have doubts about their happiness …’, NC Letters, 10 July 1949,130.

  1950: Doctor Jamaica

  93: ‘Up to forty, girls cost nothing …’, DF, 270–1

  93: ‘the most healthy life I could wish to live.’, Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, 12.

  95: ‘On with your Aqua Lung…’, P&C, 214.

  95: ‘If Noël has a problem …’, Elaine Stritch to NC, 6 August 1963, NC Letters, 682.

  95: ‘Everything is unbelievably lovely.’, NC Diary, 15 December 1949, 137.

  95: ‘It has been a lovely holiday …’, NC Diary, 22 April 1952,191.

  95: ‘this place has a strange and very potent magic for me …’, NC Letters, 674.

  96: ‘healing, beneficial and inspiring.’, AF to HC, 1 February 1952, Amory, 105.

  96: ‘Here there is peace and that wonderful vacuum …’, IF to AF, 20 January 1958, Amory, 213.

  96: ‘I suppose it is the peace and silence …’, Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, 12.

  96: ‘Always took life strangely hard, except in Jamaica.’, Quennell, Wanton Chase, 154.

  97: ‘Fleming is at his mellow best.’, Harling, Vogue.

  97: ‘very charming, attractive character …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

  97: ‘the parasites will have him within a day or two.’, Lycett, 198.

  97: ‘The gold and black tiger’s eye was on him …’, TB, (Vintage ed. 2012), 237.

  98: ‘It is easy to enjoy the orchids and the hummingbirds …’, Fleming, ‘Pleasure Islands?’, Spectator, 4 July 1952.

  98: ‘I am still grateful for the gentle ministrations …’, Olivier, Confessions of an Actor, 185.

  98: ‘Do you know that when you said that to me …’, AF to IF, February 1950, Amory, 79.

  98: ‘stressed-concrete jungle’, LLD, 144.

  99: ‘such matters as radio and weapons …’, RWL, 37.

  99: ‘of ‘excellent’ ‘manufacture’, RWL, 20.

  99: ‘their total unpreparedness to rule the world …’, Lycett, 164.

  99: ‘continual homeopathic doses of Anti-Americanism.’, Introduction to Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, (Penguin ed., 2003), xii.

  100: ‘biggest business, bigger than steel…’, DF, 25.

  100: ‘after washing the filth …’, TC, 108.

  100: ‘ghastly’, DF, 178.

  100: ‘the hysterical pursuit of money’, TC, 133.

  100: ‘one of the grimmest suburbs …’, TC, 120.

  100: ‘society that fails to establish …’, TC, 97.

  100: ‘It’s your territory.’, LLD, 166.

  100: ‘because the place is British territory.’, DN, 235.

  100: ‘Bond was glad to be on his way …’, LLD, 262.

  100: You see, it belongs to an American now …’, LLD, 268.

  100–101: ‘a trace of an American accent’, DN, 338.

  101: ‘millionaires in beach clothes’, P&C, 76.

  101: ‘islands of the West Indies … ‘, Willis J. Abbot, Panama and the Canal, (Syndicate Publishing Company, London, 1913), 15.

  102: ‘The American invasion’, Huggins, 56.

  103: ‘were equaled only in the most sociologically retarded …’, Thompson, An Eye for the Tropics, 238–9.

  103: ‘threatened the undoing of the British Empire.’, Spotlight, December 1953.

  104: ‘the delegation made it plain …’, Fraser, Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism, 113.

  104: ‘I was in New York …’, Gleaner, 3 August 1948.

  105: ‘Jamaica has the largest bauxite deposits …’, Spectator, 4 July 1952.

  105: ‘You fear the moral “dégringolade” of the tropics …’, Horizon.

  106: ‘wanted to get the hell away from King’s House …’, DN, 399.

  106: ‘though our political views differed.’, Huggins, 138.

  106: ‘though I don’t think she really approved of me …’, Huggins, 107.

  107: ‘I’ll be damned.’, Gleaner, February 1950.

  107–8: We were proud to be nonconformists and Roundheads …’, New York Times, 7 September 1990.

  108: ‘dapper’ and ‘well-bred’, Spotlight, August 1950, 19.

  108: ‘charming, likable, infinitely clever person.’, Edna Manley Diaries, 14 November 1953, 46.

  109: ‘Quite nice, really, but a bit sticky.’: Coward, ‘South Sea Bubble’, Play Parade, vi, 117.

  109: ‘true-blue conservative’, P&C, 223.

  109: ‘an ardent socialist in his earlier years.’, Ibid.

  109: ‘When I was governor of Jamaica …’, Foot, Empire into Commonwealth, 8.

  109: ‘advancing at an accelerating rate …’, Foot, Start, 120.

  1951: ’Disciplined Exoticism’

  110: ‘What I endeavour to aim at… ‘, ‘How to Write a Thriller’.

  110: ‘more than any other woman’, IF to AF, February 1950, Amory, 80–1.

  110: ‘static emotional state’, AF to HC, 18 August 1950, Amory, 93.

  111: ‘Christmas without Ian seems a bleak affair …’, AF to HC, 2 November 1950, Amory, 94.

  111: ‘Cecil was tremendously brave …’, AF to DC, 10 February 1951, Amory, 96.

  111: ‘something reptilian about him.’, Fionn Morgan interview, 24 January 2013.


  113: ‘a genuine coral reef 18th century-print wreck …’, AF to DC, 10 February 1951, Amory, 97.

  113: ‘got off with women because he could not get on with them.’, Amory, 37.

  113: ‘the extremely unfeeling use to which he put his great attractions’, Quennell, Wanton, 152.

  114: ‘stories of battles, tornados ...’, MSS, (Vintage ed. 2012), 257.

  114: ‘gave you the impression of being in a battleship in harbour.’, MR, 346.

  114: ‘a keen sailor’s face, with the clear, sharp sailor’s eyes’, Ibid.

  115: ‘the sort of aquiline good looks that are associated …’, LLD, 265.

  115: ‘ with ‘what almost amounted to the “Nelson Touch”, YLT, 271.

  116: ‘divers barbarous acts’, Parker, The Sugar Barons, 141.

  116: ‘debauched wild blades’, Parker, The Sugar Barons, 177.

  116: ‘the buccaneers of Port Royal…’, Mitchell, The Spice of Life, 51.

  117: ‘four-penny horrors’, Playboy interview.

  117: ‘doubtless stuffed with pirate treasure …’, Horizon.

  117: ‘I wouldn’t love you if you weren’t a pirate’, MSS, 323.

  117: ‘piratical.’, CR, 40,

  117: ‘the slightly piratical air …’, Lycett, 371.

  117: ‘greedy boisterous pirate.’, SS, 132.

  117: ‘exuberant shrewd pirate.’, RWL, 108.

  117: ‘All history is sex and violence.’, Fleming on Desert Island Discs, 1963.

  118: ‘known, the map says, by the name of Look Behind.’, Horizon.

  119: ‘supersonic John Buchan.’, Listener, 23 April 1953.

  120: ‘seeing the West Indies in their last rip-roaring days …’, Hugh Edwards, Introduction to All Night at Mr Staneyhursts, (Jonathan Cape, London, 1964), xvii.

  120: ‘exaggeration and things larger than life,’, Playboy interview.

  120: ‘hot-blooded sadism and slaves set in the 1850s.’, Horizon.

  121: ‘the stews of Kingston’, Horizon.

  122: ‘Some things have happened recently …’, Sunspots, 60.

  122: ‘The thing is to let the blacks know I have a pistol’, Pearson, 194.

  122: ‘for defence against the Blackamoors.’, Pearson, 319.

  122: ‘most law abiding and God-fearing …’, Horizon.

  123: ‘luscious clash of ostentation and restraint’: introduction to Penguin ed., vii.

  213: ‘What I endeavour to aim at…’, ‘How to write a Thriller’.