16. AN diary, 25 February 1973.
17. Airey Neave, Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945–6, Hodder & Stoughton, 1978, p. 20.
18. Grimond, Memoirs, p. 45.
19. Neave, Nuremberg, p. 19.
20. Ibid., p. 20.
21. Ibid., p. 21.
22. Ibid., p. 22.
23. Neave’s Dictionary of National Biography entry, by Sir Brian Harrison, makes mention of it, and the Marquess of Reading (Michael Isaacs) recalled ‘Airey winning a political essay prize, about 1933, on Germany’. There is also a reference to it in Leonard Cheshire’s 1980 appreciation of Neave in the Merton College magazine Postmaster, but extensive efforts have failed to turn anything up.
24. Sixpenny: Stories and Poems by Etonians, no. 4, 13 July 1934.
25. Robin Maugham, Escape from the Shadows, Hodder & Stoughton, 1972, p. 78.
26. Obituary of David Tree, Daily Telegraph, 28 December 2009.
27. Marquess of Reading, ‘Some Personal Recollections’, Eton Chronicle, 31 May 1980.
28. Grimond, Memoirs, p. 45.
29. Leonard Cheshire, Postmaster (Merton College Magazine), vol. VI, no. 1, March 1980.
30. Airey Neave, They Have Their Exits, Leo Cooper, 2016, p. 7.
31. Ibid., p. 7.
32. Merton College Library.
33. Cheshire, Postmaster.
34. Merton Floats programme, Neave family papers.
35. Marquess of Reading, ‘Personal Recollections’.
36. Neave, Exits, p. 7.
37. Ibid., p. 6.
38. Richard Morris, Cheshire, Viking, 2000, p. 29.
39. Neave, Exits, p. 7.
40. Ibid., p. 6.
41. Ibid., p. 4.
42. Marquess of Reading, ‘Personal Recollections’.
2: BLOODED
1. Neave, Exits, p. 7.
2. Airey Neave, The Flames of Calais, Coronet, 1974, p. 34.
3. Neave, Flames, p. 35.
4. Ibid., p. 15.
5. Ibid., p. 55.
6. Ibid., p. 39.
7. Ibid., p. 45.
8. Neave, Exits, p. 8.
9. Neave, Flames, p. 46.
10. Ibid., pp. 46–47.
11. Ibid., p. 94.
12. Ibid., p. 106.
13. Ibid., p. 106.
14. Ibid., pp. 130–31.
15. Ibid., pp. 131–32.
16. Ibid., pp. 139–43, for the full account of this action.
17. Ibid., p. 113.
18. Ibid., p. 164.
19. Ibid., p. 161.
20. Ibid., pp. 211–12.
21. Ibid., p. 213. In Exits (p. 10), Neave says it was a bottle of wine – an example of the minor discrepancies that occur in his various accounts of his exploits.
22. Ibid., p. 227.
3: ‘IN THE BAG’
1. Neave, Flames, p. 74.
2. Ibid., p. 18.
3. Ibid., p. 137.
4. ‘Nicholson, Claude’, www.winchestercollegeatwar.com.
5. Neave, Flames, p. 216. Rifleman Matthews of the 2KRRC was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his bravery.
6. Airey Neave, Saturday at MI9, Hodder & Stoughton, 1969, p. 26.
7. Neave, Flames, pp. 232–33.
8. Imperial War Museum Documents 25969.
9. Neave, Saturday, pp. 27–29, for full account.
10. Ibid., p. 59.
11. Lt Colonel J. M. Langley, Fight Another Day, Collins, 1974, pp. 50–53.
12. Ibid., pp. 19–20.
13. Airey Neave, ‘New Confidence in Ulster’, Spectator, 17 December 1975, p. 16.
14. Neave, Saturday, pp. 27–29.
15. Neave, Exits, pp. 10–14.
16. Neave, Saturday, p. 29.
17. Neave, Exits, p. 13.
18. P. R. Reid, MBE, MC, The Colditz Story, Hodder & Stoughton, 1952, p. 84.
19. Ibid., p. 106.
20. Neave, Saturday, p. 29.
21. Neave, Exits, p. 13.
22. Ibid., p. 15.
23. The National Archives 40/2449.
24. William Ash (with Brendan Foley), Under the Wire, Bantam, 2005, p. 172.
25. Reid, Colditz, p. 17.
26. Ash and Foley, Wire, p. 153.
27. Aidan Crawley, Escape from Germany: The Methods of Escape Used by RAF Airmen During the Second World War, HMSO, 1985, p. 5.
28. Neave, Exits, p. 16.
29. Ibid., pp. 12–25, for full account.
30. Ibid., p. 17.
31. Ibid., pp. 26–40, for full account.
32. Neave, Saturday, pp. 32–33.
33. Neave, Exits, p. 42.
34. Interview with William Neave, 16 May 2016.
35. Peter Taylor, Beating the Terrorists? Interrogation at Omagh, Gough and Castlereagh, Penguin, 1980, p. 332.
36. Neave, Exits, p. 43.
4. THE ESCAPING CLUB
1. Neave, Exits, pp. 51–81, for full account.
2. Interview with Norman Tebbit, 18 May 2016.
3. Neave, Exits, p. 56.
4. Ibid., p. 63.
5. Ibid., p. 65.
6. Ibid., p. 67.
7. Reid, Colditz, p. 106.
8. Neave, Exits, p. 69.
9. Reid, Colditz, p. 98.
10. Daily Mail, 31 March 1979.
11. Neave, Exits, p. 71.
12. Reid, Colditz, p. 123.
13. Neave, Exits, p. 84.
14. Anthony ‘Tony’ Luteyn, IWM Sound Archive 21768. All subsequent quotations are taken from this source.
15. Neave, Exits, p. 78.
16. Ibid., pp. 81–95, for full account.
17. Ibid., p. 86.
18. Ibid., p. 87.
19. Ibid., p. 92.
20. Ibid., p. 93.
21. Ibid., p. 94.
5: HOME RUN
1. Luteyn, IWM Sound Archive 21768.
2. Neave, Exits, p. 97.
3. Neave, Saturday, p. 39.
4. Daily Mail, 31 March 1979.
5. Luteyn, IWM Sound Archive 21768.
6. There are several minor discrepancies between the two principal accounts Neave left of this period: They Have Their Exits (1953) and Saturday at MI9 (1969). The essentials of the narrative, though, are consistent.
7. Neave, Exits, chap. 9 passim.
8. Neave, Saturday, p. 40.
9. TNA WO 208/4242.
10. Neave, Saturday, p. 41.
11. M. R. D. Foot and J. M. Langley, MI9: Escape and Evasion 1939–1945, Biteback Publishing, 2011, p. 132.
12. Interview with Christopher Clark, 17 January 2018.
13. Foot and Langley, MI9, p. 63.
14. In Exits (p. 105), it is a ‘small’ cemetery; in Saturday (p. 45), a ‘large’ one. Another example of the discrepancies Neave was prone to, surprising perhaps in an intelligence officer who might be expected to be punctilious about details.
15. Neave, Saturday, p. 45.
16. Foot and Langley, MI9, p. 63. The book is jointly authored, but the sentiments are surely Langley’s. Foot too was a wartime escaper, but his third attempt came to an end when a Breton farmer’s son beat him up, injuring him severely.
17. Neave, Exits, pp. 109–10.
18. Ibid., p. 111.
19. http://www.conscript-heroes.com/.
20. Oliver Clutton-Brock, RAF Evaders, Grub Street, 2009, p. 42.
21. Foot and Langley, MI9, pp. 35–36.
22. Donald Darling, Secret Sunday, William Kimber, 1975, p. 9.
23. TNA KV2/415.
24. Darling, Sunday, p. 31.
25. Neave, Saturday, p. 83.
26. Clutton-Brock, Evaders, p. 77.
27. TNA KV2/415.
28. Neave, Saturday, p. 85.
29. Neave, Exits, p. 130.
6: ROOM 900
1. Neave, Saturday, p. 57, and passim.
2. Neave gave two different versions of what happened next. In Exits (p. 141), they shared a taxi to the Berkeley Hotel. In Satu
rday (p. 59), they said their farewells there and then. Another example of the discrepancies in Neave’s published recollections.
3. Neave, Saturday, p. 62.
4. Neave, Exits, 143.
5. Neave, Saturday, p. 82.
6. Neave, Exits, 144.
7. AN diary, 8 October 1973.
8. Elisabeth Luard, My Life as a Wife, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 16.
9. Neave, Exits, p. 144.
10. Patrick Cosgrave, obituary of Diana Neave, Independent, 1 December 1992.
11. Interview with Marigold Webb.
12. Independent, 1 December 1992.
13. Interview with Hugh Tilney, 16 November 2018.
14. Darling, Sunday, p. 19.
15. Neave, Saturday, p. 69.
16. The MI9 historian and wartime intelligence officer M. R. D. Foot has also claimed that Cavell was a British spy, as, after research in the Belgian archives, has the former head of MI5 Stella Rimington, though AN maintained otherwise.
17. Neave, Saturday, p. 70.
18. Ibid., p. 62.
19. Interview with Alexander Creswell, 18 May 2018.
20. Neave, Saturday, p. 132.
21. Clutton-Brock, Evaders, p. 115.
22. Darling, Sunday, p. 34.
23. Clutton-Brock, Evaders, p. 116, and TNA HS6/223.
24. Interview with Alexander Creswell.
25. Clutton-Brock, Evaders, p. 112, and TNA AIR 2/5904.
26. Papers of John Howes.
27. Neave, Saturday, p. 91.
28. Clutton-Brock, Evaders, p. 206.
29. Neave, Saturday, p. 150.
30. Ibid., p. 158. Other accounts say they were French.
31. TNA 7446.
32. Neave, Saturday, p. 148.
33. There are other versions of the story – e. g. Clutton-Brock, Evaders, p. 207 – but the overall picture remains the same. Jean-François Nothomb risked visiting flats used by the network after Frédéric de Jongh had been arrested, and it was only by sheer luck that he did not share his fate.
34. Neave, Saturday, p. 151.
35. Ibid., p. 152.
36. Ibid., p. 189.
37. She remained disarmingly haughty and unrepentant till the end, as can be seen in this YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH8Vr4HpAC4].
38. Neave, Saturday, p. 190.
39. Ibid., p. 192.
40. Subsequently it was alleged that Lindell’s ‘unconventional ways’ went further than mere eccentricity. In 2015, Marie-Laure Le Folon, a French historian, published Lady Mensonge: Mary Lindell, fausse héroïne de la Résistance. According to her researches, which included the testimony of surviving resisters, Lindell was something of a fabulist, hence the soubriquet ‘Lady Lie’.
41. Neave, Saturday, p. 195.
42. Ibid., pp. 151–52.
43. Ibid., p. 314.
7: FROM NORMANDY TO NUREMBERG
1. Neave, Saturday, p. 242. All quotations are taken from pp. 241–300 unless otherwise indicated.
2. Ibid., p. 264.
3. Papers of Michel Robinson.
4. Neave, Saturday, p. 277.
5. Ibid., p. 283.
6. Telephone interview with Antonia Pinter, 27 December 2017.
7. Captain Peter Baker, My Testament, John Calder, 1955, p. 146.
8. I am indebted to John Howes for his exhaustive researches into this incident and the whole Pegasus episode.
9. Neave, Saturday, p. 293.
10. ‘Arnhem Men Drove Through German Lines in Lorries’, News Chronicle, 20 November 1944.
11. The full story is contained in Airey Neave, Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945–6, Hodder & Stoughton, 1978.
12. Neave, Nuremberg, p. 44.
13. Ibid., p. 79.
14. Ibid., p. 264.
15. Neave family story.
16. Rebecca West, foreword to Neave, Nuremberg, p. 5.
8: THE LONG MARCH
1. Daily Herald, 24 June 1953.
2. Daily Mirror, 29 June 1953.
3. Interview with William Neave.
4. Interview with Marigold Webb.
5. AN diary, 7 January 1974.
6. AMS Neave army file, in possession of family.
7. AN diary, 8 May 1974.
8. Ibid., 30 July 1973.
9. Interview with Dame Veronica Sutherland, 18 October 2017.
10. AN diary, 27 October 1973.
11. Ibid., 25 July 1974.
12. Birmingham Daily Post, 3 July 1953.
13. Hansard, HC Deb, 29 July 1953.
14. Hansard, HC Deb, 1 March 1954.
15. Hansard, HC Deb, 17 November 1953.
16. Interview with Sir Peter Hordern, 23 August 2018.
17. Hansard, HC Deb, 29 May 1956.
18. Interview with Marigold Webb.
19. Interview with William Neave.
20. Interview with Patrick Neave, 20 October 2016.
21. Interview with Philippa Neave, 6 March 2018.
22. Interview with John Giffard, 24 January 2018.
23. AN diary, 31 March 1973.
24. John Campbell, Edward Heath: A Biography, Cape, 1993, p. 101.
25. AN diary, 22 August 1973.
9: DARKEST HOUR
1. AN diary, 9 March 1973.
2. Ibid., 10 March 1973.
3. Hansard, HC Deb, 7 February 1969.
4. Hansard, HC Deb, 29 October 1965.
5. Neave, Nuremberg, p. 78.
6. AN diary, 10 June 1973.
7. AN was a director of Dawson and Barfos from July 1972 and worked for Edwin McAlpine.
8. Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 270.
9. Greville Wynne, The Man From Odessa, Panther, 1984, 41–42.
10. AN diary, 31 October 1973.
11. Ibid., 30 August 1974.
12. Ibid., 30 January 1974.
13. Campbell, Heath, p. 36.
14. AN diary, 1 August 1973.
15. Daily Telegraph, 1 January 2007.
16. AN diary, 24 May 1974.
17. Ibid., 29 May 1973.
18. Ibid., 17 March 1973.
19. Interview with Veronica Sutherland.
20. AN diary, 27 August 1973.
21. Ibid., 1 June 1973.
22. Ibid., 4 June 1974.
23. Ibid., 26 October 1973.
24. Ibid., 1 June 1973.
25. Ibid., 11 May 1973.
26. Ibid., 3 January 1974.
27. Ibid., 9 January 1974.
28. Ibid., 23 March 1974.
29. Ibid., 25 January 1973.
30. Ibid., 21 April 1973.
31. Ibid., 7 August 1974.
10: ‘A PERFECT WOMAN, NOBLY PLANNED’
1. Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher, vol. 1, Not for Turning, Allen Lane, 2013, p. 125.
2. John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher, vol. 1, The Grocer’s Daughter, Jonathan Cape, 2000, p. 89.
3. AN diary, 9 June 1973.
4. From a modest Welsh background, Marshall gained a first in mathematical physics at Birmingham University before moving to Harwell.
5. AN diary, 6 July 1973.
6. Ibid., 4 January 1973.
7. Ibid., 19 July 1973.
8. Ibid., 15 July 1973.
9. Ibid., 22 October 1974.
10. Interview with Veronica Sutherland (née Beckett), 18 October 2017.
11. Neave, Nuremberg, p. 75.
12. AN diary, 30 December 1973.
13. Ibid., 29 April 1973.
14. Thatcher, Path, p. 270.
15. Interview with Jonathan Aitken.
16. AN diary, 15 September 1973.
17. See Campbell, Heath, pp. 561–73.
18. AN diary, 13 December 1973. Thanks to the magazine Private Eye, ‘tired and emotional’ had become a euphemism for ‘drunk’. According to some accounts, the pressures of dealing with Northern Ireland had led Willie Whitelaw to turn to the bottle. See Moore, Thatcher, p. 244.
19. Ibi
d., 3 January 1974.
20. Ibid., 20 February 1974.
21. Ibid., 23 February 1974.
22. Ibid., 1 March 1974.
23. Moore, Thatcher, p. 248.
24. AN diary, 2 March 1974.
25. Ibid., 20 March 1974.
26. Ibid., 25 March 1974.
27. Ibid., 13 June 1974.
28. Ibid., 6 April 1974.
29. Ibid., 26 March 1974.
30. Ibid., 9 May 1974.
31. Ibid., 7 May 1974.
32. Ibid., 26 May 1974.
33. Ibid., 2 July 1974.
34. Diana Neave diary, 2 July 1974.
35. Interview with Marigold Webb.
36. AN diary, 3 July 1974.
37. Ibid., 14 July 1974.
38. Ibid., 26 July 1974.
39. Ibid., 24 September 1974.
40. Campbell, Heath, p. 639.
41. AN diary, 21 September 1974.
42. Ibid., 12 October 1974.
11: THE ARITHMETIC OF VICTORY
1. AN diary, 13 October 1974.
2. Ibid., 17 June 1974.
3. Ibid., 14 October 1974.
4. Ibid., 15 October 1974.
5. Interview with Sir Peter Hordern.
6. AN diary, 15 October 1974.
7. Ibid., 15 October 1974.
8. Ibid., 21 October 1974.
9. Ibid., 29 October 1974.
19. Ibid., 31 October 1974.
11. Ibid., 6 November 1974.
12. Ibid., 14 November 1974.
13. Ibid., 18 January 1975.
14. Ibid., 5 December 1974.
15. Ibid., 15 September 1973.
16. Ibid., 21 September 1973.
17. Ibid., 22 September 1973.
18. Ibid., 10 April 1974.
19. Ibid., 18 July 1974.
20. Ibid., 31 July 1974.
21. Edward Pearce, obituary of Edward du Cann, Guardian, 7 September 2017.
22. Moore, Thatcher, p. 273.
23. Thatcher, Path, p. 270.
24. AN diary, 28 November 1974.
25. Ibid., 6 December 1974.
26. Ibid., 28 November 1974.
27. Moore, Thatcher, p. 278.
28. AN diary, 1 December 1974.
29. Ibid., 19 December 1974.
30. Ibid., 31 December 1974.
31. Ibid., ‘Personal Notes’, 1975.
32. Ibid., 1 December 1974.
33. Ibid., 23 December 1974.
34. Ibid., 3 January 1975.
35. Ibid., 12 January 1975.
36. Thatcher, Path, p. 272.
37. AN diary, 16 January 1975.
38. Ibid., 18 January 1975.
39. Ibid., 20 January 1975.
40. Tam Dalyell, obituary of Arthur Palmer, Independent, 26 August 1994.
41. AN diary, 23 January 1975.
42. Ibid., 27 January 1975.
43. Ibid.
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