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by Bernard Diederich


  Greene, Francis, 175

  Greene, Graham, passim (see also works below)

  Brighton Rock, 303

  A Burnt-Out Case, 16, 70, 83, 96–7, 280

  The Captain and the Enemy, 278, 283, 289–90

  Carving a Statue, 96

  The Comedians, 16, 23, 25, 26, 27, 35–6, 93, 102–13, 114–37, 163, 254, 298, 301–4

  Doctor Fisher of Geneva or The Bomb Party, 215, 220

  The End of the Affair, 15, 84, 215

  Getting to Know the General, 168, 172, 178, 196, 216, 252, 256, 260, 262, 270–4, 281

  The Heart of the Matter, 84

  The Honorary Consul, 161, 163, 173, 218

  The Human Factor, 183, 185, 217, 254–5

  J’accuse: The Dark Side of Nice, 258–9

  The Living Room, 116

  The Man Within, 107

  Monsignor Quixote, 213, 259, 281

  Our Man in Havana, 27, 95, 226, 229, 231, 265–6

  The Potting Shed, 194

  The Power and the Glory, 24, 50, 67, 70, 87, 303

  The Quiet American, 30, 70, 102, 161, 186, 231, 293–4

  In Search of a Character, 97

  Travels with My Aunt, 162, 202

  The Virtue of Disloyalty, 230

  On the Way Back, 235, 253–6, 271–2

  Ways of Escape, 234, 255

  For Whom the Bell Chimes, 196, 208

  A World of My Own, 290–1

  Greene, Richard, Graham Greene:

  A Life in Letters, 109

  Greene, William, 94

  Greig, Geordie, 174

  Grenada, 11

  de la Guardia, Ernesto, 228

  Guardian, 142, 277

  Guatemala, 187, 238

  Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’, 155, 173

  Guinness, Alec, 95, 119, 127–8, 132

  Blessings in Disguise, 119–20, 129

  Guzmán, Antonio, 193

  Haig, Alexander, General, 226

  Haiti Sun, 15, 21, 55, 85, 89, 91

  Harari, Mike, 227

  Hart, Gary, 270

  Hável, Vaclav, 297

  Heiskell, Andréw, 164

  Hemingway, Ernest, 11, 215

  Herard, Antoine, 28

  Hickey, Robert, 32, 35

  Hicks, Albert C., Blood in the Streets:

  The Life and Rule of Trujillo, 59–60, 97–8

  Hitler, Adolph, 177

  Ho Chi Minh, 220

  Holden, David, 229

  Holden, William, 99

  Honduras, 200, 238, 243, 263

  Howarth, David, Panama, 173

  Hudicourt, Jean-Pierre, 37

  Huerta, Alberto, 304

  Hughson, Pat, 80–3

  The Human Factor (film), 255

  Illich, Ivan, Reverend, 112

  Independent, 299

  Israel, 218

  Izméry, Antoine, 37

  Jagger, Bianca, 268

  James, Henry

  The Great Good Place, 103

  The Lost Childhood, 232

  Jefferson, Thomas, 157–8

  John Paul II, Pope, 209, 268

  John XXIII, Pope, 67, 73, 110

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 16, 99, 101, 133, 193

  Jolicoeur, Aubelin, 23, 27–8, 87, 115, 118, 119

  Jones, Dany, 32, 35

  Jones, James, From Here to Eternity, 26

  Jones, James Earl, 119

  Jordan, Hamilton, 212

  Judd, Alan, 12

  Jumelle, Clément, 48, 109

  Kant, Immanuel, 106

  Karloff, Boris, 190

  Kempe, Frederick, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega, 284

  Kennedy, John F., 39, 49, 53, 157–8, 231

  Kersten, Levant, 32, 35

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 231

  King, Martin Luther, Jr, 146

  Kissinger, Henry, 160, 164, 178

  Knox, Clinton, 139

  Kollek, Teddy, 245

  Korda, Sir Alexander, 280–1

  Korda, Michael, 281

  Kovacs, Ernie, 95

  Lachapelle, Hector, Lieutenant, 98

  Lafontant, Gérard, 40, 42, 144

  Lafontant, Roger, 260

  Lakas, Demetrio B. ‘Jimmy’, 155

  Landsdale, Edward G., Colonel, 293

  Lazard, Luckner, 93

  Le Men, Albert, 277

  Lherisson, Camille, 106–7

  Life, 22, 112, 214–15

  Ligonde, François Wolf, Monsignor, 117

  Lincoln, Abraham, 157–8

  Luce, Henry, 55

  Luther, Martin, 106

  Madame Max, 49

  Madox Ford, Ford, 291

  Magloire, Paul, 33, 64, 85, 86, 87

  Magloire, Yola, 86

  Magsaysay, Ramon, 293

  Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 294

  Maritain, Jacques, 106–7

  Márquez, Gabriel García, 159, 188–90, 204, 207, 217, 243–4, 249–50, 252, 265

  One Hundred Years of Solitude, 197

  Martínez, José Jesús ‘Chuchu’, Sergeant, 170, 174, 177, 179–87, 191, 194–8, 203–4, 207, 214, 215, 219, 225, 232, 233, 237, 240, 243, 247, 250–2, 254–6, 259–60, 262–4, 267, 269, 271, 278, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 295–7, 299

  El Caso Dios, 180

  La Guerra del Banano, 180, 194

  La Perrera, 180

  Martínez Cartas, María Estela ‘Isabel’, 177

  Martínez Rivas, Carlos, 285

  Marx, Karl, 106, 236

  Massillon, Yves, 122, 123, 124

  Le Matin, 144, 283

  Maugham, Somerset, 278

  de la Maza, Antonio, 60

  McAuliffe, Dennis, Lieutenant-General, 193

  McCarran-Walters Act 1952, 90

  McGill University, Montreal, 106

  McKay, Claude, 292

  McSwigan, Jim, Reverend, 70, 73–4

  Médicin, Jacques, 257

  Cuisine niçoise, 259

  Méndez Arceo, Sergio, Bishop of Cuernavaca, 235

  Menéndez, Mario, 221–2

  Mengele, Josef, 190

  Mewshaw, Michael, 16

  Mexico, 160

  MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), 116, 121, 126, 131–2, 134, 136

  Miami Herald, 98, 132, 218, 247

  Mitterand, François, 248

  Mondale, Walter, 212, 270

  Le Monde, 142

  Monroe, Marilyn, 26

  Montas, Lucien, 121–2

  Moore, Henry, 288

  Morgan, Henry, 169, 202

  Mosolino, Gloria, 26

  Moss, Ambler, 249

  Moss, Robert, 236

  Murillo, Rosario, 208, 243, 285

  Mussolini, Benito, 177

  Namphy, Henry, General, 147

  Narayan, R.K., 276

  Nassard, Ludovic ‘Dodo’, 62

  Le National, 85

  NATO, 40

  Nelson, Horatio, Lord, 15

  Neruda, Pablo, 160

  New York Review of Books, 182–3, 184

  New York Times, 15, 22, 30, 41, 52, 258–9, 271–3, 290, 299

  New Yorker, 210

  Newbolt, Henry, 205

  Newsweek, 193, 273, 294

  Niblock, Patrick, 23

  Nicaragua, 11, 16, 180, 181, 198–201, 203, 211, 212, 214, 218, 224, 232–46, 260, 263–4, 268, 271, 274, 278, 283, 284

  Nixon, Richard M., 193

  Noriega, Manuel Antonio, 159, 169, 219, 225, 227, 248, 251, 261, 270, 281–3, 284, 286–7, 295–6, 297, 299

  Le Nouveau Monde, 114, 136

  Le Nouvelliste, 23, 121

  El Nuevo Diario, 237

  OAS (Organization of American States), 42, 45, 69, 189

  Obando y Bravo, Miguel, 268

  Ocalagan, Domingo, Major, 249

  Ocampo, Victoria, 160

  O’Leary, Jeremiah, 144, 145

  Omarr, Sydney, 218–19

  Ortega, Daniel, 16, 199, 200, 208, 235, 243, 268, 282–3, 285, 287–8

  Ortega, Humberto, 235

  Our Man in
Havana (film), 126

  L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 15

  Ovando, Nicolas, 61

  Pahlavi, Farah, 212

  Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran, 212–13

  Palés Matos, Luis, 292

  Panama, 11, 145, 153–63, 166, 168, 179, 182, 188–90, 191, 211, 213, 225, 238, 281

  El Panamá América, 228–9

  Panorama, 114–15, 143–4

  Paraguay, 163, 243

  Paredes, Rubén Darío, Colonel, 238, 251, 261–2

  Paris Match, 209

  Pasquet, Alix, 32–5, 46

  Pastora, Edén, 206, 251

  Payne, Arthur, 32–4, 35

  Pean, Sean, Lieutenant, 144

  People Magazine, 259

  Péralte, Charlemagne, 63

  Pérez, Carlos Andrés, 252

  Perón, Juan, 50, 177

  Perpignan, Henri, 32–3, 35

  Peru, 165

  Peters, Dewitt, 92, 94

  Le Petit Samedi Soir, 134

  Philby, Harold ‘Kim’, 123, 226, 229–30, 231, 254–5, 279, 294

  My Silent War, 230

  Philippe-Auguste, Salnave, 22, 92

  Phillips, Gene D., 128

  Philogenes, Blucher, Captain, 58

  Pinchinat, Max, 93, 119

  Piñeiro Losada, Manuel, Major, 226–7

  Pinochet, Augusto, General, 180, 190

  Pissar, Samuel, 134

  Playboy, 162, 179, 182–3

  Poirier, François, Monsignor, 50

  Pomares Ordoñez, Germán ‘El Danto’, 199–201

  Portocarrero, René, 265

  Preminger, Otto, 255

  La Prensa, 239, 241, 243

  Price, George, 207–8, 218, 251, 297

  Princeton University, 292

  Pryce-Jones, Alan, 185

  Puerto Rico, 188

  The Quiet American (film), 294

  Ramirez, Sergio, 262, 285

  Reagan, Ronald, 11, 220, 242, 243, 250, 260, 262, 263, 270, 277, 278, 284

  Reed, J.D., 270

  Reid Cabral, Donald, 39–40, 41–2, 44–6, 98

  Reilly, Thomas F., Bishop, 65

  Reinhardt, Max, 258

  Reynolds, Quentin, 59

  Riding, Alan, 271–3, 290

  Rigaud, Pierre L., 39, 40, 43

  Riobé, Hector, 36–8, 46, 111

  Rivera, Jules, Latin America: A Sociocultural Interpretation, 247

  Robespierre, Maximilien de, 28

  Rogers, Will, 176–7

  Romain, Franck, 24

  Romain, Jean-Claude ‘Puma’, 100

  Romero, Carlos Humberto, General, 212

  Romero y Galdámez, Óscar Arnulfo, 244, 281

  Romulus, Willy, Bishop of Jeremie, 268

  Rond-Point, 67

  Roosevelt, Franklyn D., 173, 232–3

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 153, 165, 242

  Royo, Aristides, 261

  Saint, Eva Marie, 26

  Salomon, Georges, 146

  Sandino, Augusto César, 236

  Sardi, Vincent, 25

  Saunders, Amanda, 234, 300

  Scali, John, 161

  Scott, Ted, 90, 229

  Seitz, Al, 25, 27

  Seminario Universidad, 299

  Shakespeare, William, 58

  Sherry, Norman, 174–5, 288–9

  Silvera, Albert, 25, 85–6

  Simon, André, 62

  Simon Sam, Tirésias, 25

  Smith, Reece, 225, 229, 231

  Soglo, Christophe, General, 117, 119, 130

  Somoza, Anastasio, Tacho II, 180, 190, 198, 200, 201, 205–7, 208, 210, 211, 213, 245, 289–90

  Somoza, Anastasio García, Tacho I, 232–3, 236

  Sorbonne, 180

  South Africa, 218, 244

  Spadafora, Hugo, Dr, 251, 281

  The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (film), 127

  St Aude, Tony, 140

  St Jacques, Raymond, 119

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 94

  Stewart, Bill, 241

  Stroessner, Alfredo, 185, 189–90

  Sunday Telegraph, 28, 107, 125, 182–3

  Sunday Times, 174

  Supplice, André, 84–5

  The Tablet, 267, 277

  Tack, Antonio, 161

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 16, 119, 126, 127, 132

  Taylor, John Russell, 128

  Thatcher, Margaret, 218

  Theroux, Paul, 12

  The Third Man, 298

  Thomas, Pierre, Captain, 54

  Thomas Didymus, Saint, 71, 149

  Ti-Bobo, 49

  Ti-Cabiche, 49

  Time Magazine, 11, 16, 22, 55, 76, 86, 96, 99, 112, 120, 123, 127, 141, 145, 154, 160, 164, 172, 178, 181, 182, 185, 188, 191, 199, 207, 208–9, 214–15, 219, 223, 226, 257–8, 263, 267, 270, 279, 283

  The Times, 128, 135, 142, 143, 147, 218, 236, 259, 277, 293

  Torres, Camilo, Father, 173

  Torrijos, Carmen Alicia, 219, 241, 248, 262–3

  Torrijos, Omar, General, 16, 153–63, 164, 165, 166, 168, 172, 177, 179, 180, 182–3, 184–5, 186–7, 188, 189, 190, 191–2, 194–8, 202–3, 208, 212–13, 214, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222, 227, 232, 238, 247–56, 261–2, 269, 270–1, 272, 276, 278, 285, 295–6

  Trujillo, Rafael, 29, 46, 47, 52, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 71, 72, 76, 79, 80, 98, 120, 193, 232, 233

  Truman, Harry, 126

  Twain, Mark, 85

  Twenty-Four Hours (BBC TV), 125

  Uchitelle, Louis, 99

  UN General Assembly, 133

  UN Security Council, 41, 69, 164

  University of Panama, 180

  University of Puerto Rico, 292

  US Information Office, 39–40

  US Virgin Islands, 25

  Ustinov, Peter, 119, 127

  Vaisse, Sauveur, 134

  Vallarino, Bolívar, 158

  Vance, Cyrus, 193

  Velarde, Fabian, 164, 166, 169, 179, 181

  Venezuela, 159, 211, 221–2

  Vietnam, 11, 101, 160, 209, 277, 293

  Vincent, Clément, 124

  Walker, Joseph D.J., 33, 35

  Walker, William, 241

  Walsh, Maurice, 285

  Walston, Catherine, 15, 25, 26, 90–4, 174, 175

  Washington, George, 203

  Washington Post, 263, 271–2, 290

  Washington Star, 144, 205

  Waugh, Evelyn, 174, 175, 215

  Wessin y Wessin, Elias, General, 39, 44, 98

  Whicker, Alan, 126

  Wordsworth, William, 103, 162

  Yorkshire Television, 126

  Young, Andréw, 145, 147, 193

  Zoa, Jean, Archbishop of Yaoundé, 67

  Zola, Emile, J’accuse, 258

  Haiti’s English-language newspaper, the Haiti Sun (2 December 1956), owned by Bernard Diederich, reports Graham Greene’s second visit to the country (far right-hand column)

  Graham with Catherine Walston during their 1956 visit to Haiti. The couple visited the village of Carrefour where some of Haiti’s top artists had set up La Galerie Brochette; both were captivated by the work on show.

  The American newspaperman Larry Allen of the Associated Press who was the model for the character of Granger in Graham’s novel The Quiet American

  Roger Coster, proprietor of the Grand Hotel Oloffson, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in welcoming mode; Graham stayed here in 1956, then again in 1963, by which time Coster (and most of the guests) had left.

  François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier on his election day, 22 September 1957; he was inaugurated as president for a six-year term a month later.

  Graham talking to French newsman Max Clou at the house of former Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo near San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, following his 1963 trip to Papa Doc’s terrifying Haiti

  The first group of Haitian anti-Duvalier rebels training with antiquated weapons in the Dominican Republic in May 1963 for an incursion into Haiti that never happened

  Above, left and right: A public execution ordered by Papa Doc in
1964 of two members of the Jeune Haiti resistance movement; Graham worked this into The Comedians.

  Bernard Diederich (with camera) talking to combatants on the Constitutional side in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, during the civil war of 1965

  The Haitian Revolutionary Armed Forces, known as the Kamoken, in Haiti’s pine forest

  Fr Jean-Claude Bajeux, a Haitian priest of the Holy Ghost Order, celebrating Mass for Haitian exiles in the Dominican countryside

  Kamoken leader Fred Baptiste (centre with hat) and his guerrillas sheltered in a small ‘chalet’ in Santo Domingo

  In the centre of Hispaniola, divided between the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic and Creole-speaking Haiti, were a few miles of highway called the International Road. Here, during the border trip in 1965, Graham tempted fate and insisted on taking a walk into Haiti where he was then considered an enemy of Papa Doc’s regime.

  Above: Fr Jean-Claude Bajeux at the border; not long before, his family had been seized by Papa Doc and ‘disappeared’.

  Left: Fred Baptiste in 1965, around the time Bernard Diederich took Graham to meet the Kamoken at their base in an old asylum for the insane at Nigua, Dominican Republic

  Graham and Fr Jean-Claude Bajeux during the 1965 trip in the company of Dominican soldiers at the Rio Dajabón, which forms part of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic; it is commonly known as the Massacre River as it has been the scene of a number of atrocities, most recently in 1937 when Dominican soldiers killed some 20,000 Haitians, many on the banks of the river.

  The Hotel Brisas Massacre de Mariav de Rodriguez, named after the events of 1937, in the border town of Restauración

  Graham and Fr Jean-Claude Bajeux (left) on the bridge over the Massacre River at Dajabón, from which Graham photographed Haiti from the relative safety of no man’s land (below).

  Bernard Diederich changing a tyre on his Volkswagen after returning to Santo Domingo following the border trip

  Graham Greene Démasqué, Papa Doc’s case against Graham following publication of The Comedians; the 92-page pamphlet included such denunciations of its subject as ‘a liar, a cretin, a stool pigeon’.

  The poster advertising the film adaptation of the 1967 film of The Comedians (left); the film was finally shown in Haiti in 1986 (above), nineteen years after its original release.

  Left and below: General Omar Torrijos, the Panamanian leader, in his element among his people in the countryside

  Above: Graham and Torrijos getting to know one another on Contadora Island, Panama, 1976, the day they met

  Above: Graham and Torrijos getting to know one another on Contadora Island, Panama, 1976, the day they met

 

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