The Unquiet Englishman

by Richard Greene

30Letters, 193.

  31QA, 148.

  32Journal, 18 November 1951, GU.

  33WOE, 136–8.

  34The Times (12 January 1952).

  35Gay, L’Année de Lattre en Indochine 1951, 221.

  36GG to CW, 21 November 1951, GU.

  37GG, introduction, Armand Olichon, Father Six, trans. Barbara Hall (London: Burns & Oates, 1954), v–vii.

  38Journal, 13 December 1951, GU.

  39‘Catholics at War’, Reflections, 206. See also Charles-Henri de Pirey, Vandenberghe: les commandos des tigres noirs (Paris: Indo éditions, 2003), and Nguyen Cong Luan, Nationalist in the Vietnam Wars (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), 98.

  40Journal, 24 January 1952, GU.

  41Journal, 2 February 1952, GU.

  42Robert Shaplen, The Lost Revolution (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 86–7.

  43WOE, 140.

  44Sherry 2: 416–17 disposes of such claims.

  45‘Indo-China: France’s Crown of Thorns’, trans. Alan Adamson, Reflections, 156–7.

  46See Tran My-Van, ‘Japan and Vietnam’s Caodaists: A Wartime Relationship (1939–45)’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 27:1 (March 1996), 179–93.

  47Goscha, 83.

  48Goscha, 468–9.

  49GG to CW, 7 November 1951, GU.

  50Journal fragment in GG Collection, 20:5, HRC.

  51GG to CW, 11 December 1951, GU.

  52Journal, 9 December 1951, GU.

  33: Visas

  1WOE, 180.

  2Washington Post (5 February 1952).

  3GG to CW, 14 February 1952, GU.

  4Contract between Graham Greene Productions Limited and David Lewis, 21 February 1952, HRC.

  5GG to CW, 17 February 1952, GU.

  6New Statesman (27 September 1952).

  7See Adamson (2009), 68–76.

  8New York Times (20 February 1952).

  9New York Times (20 February 1952).

  10Christopher Hitchens, ‘I’ll Be Damned’, review of Sherry 3, The Atlantic (March 2005): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/03/ill-be-damned/303741/.

  11‘Indo-China: France’s Crown of Thorns’, trans. Alan Adamson, Reflections, 149–70.

  12GG to Emmet Hughes, 18 March 1952, 2 May 1952, 9 June 1952, HRC.

  13GG to CW, 5 April 1952, GU.

  14GG to CW, 14 August 1952, GU; Moor, 137–8.

  15Moor, 150–1.

  34: The Splinter

  1GG to CW, 10 January 1953, GU.

  2The anthology is preserved in the GG Collection (21:6), HRC.

  3GG to CW, 4 April 1952, GU.

  4GG to CW, 17 April 1952, GU.

  5The typescripts are preserved in the GG Collection (21:9), HRC.

  6The Times (3 November 1952).

  7Her role is advertised in the programme for the Swedish production of The Living Room, a copy of which is preserved in the Walston Collection, GU; Meyer, 132–4.

  8GG to CW, 7 February 1953, GU.

  9The Times (28 December 1953); Donald Albery, Statement of Accounts, BC.

  10The Times (18 November 1954).

  11Letters, 200–1.

  12See Adamson (1984), 81, and Falk, 70.

  13WOE, 188–9; GG to CW, 2 August 1952, 5 August 1952, 6 August 1952, 11 August 1952, GU.

  14GG to CW, 2 September 1952, GU.

  15GG to CW, 7 November 1952, GU. Published in GG, A Quick Look Behind (Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983), 23.

  16GG to CW, 27 November 1952, GU.

  17Durán, 115.

  18GG to George Russo, 27 July 1989, BC.

  19GG to CW, 10 January 1953, GU.

  20Quoted in Waugh (1980), 398.

  21‘Albany’, in F. H. W. Sheppard, ed., Survey of London: Volumes 31 and 32, St James Westminster, Part 2 (London: London County Council, 1963), pp. 367–89. Available at British History Online: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols31-2/pt2/pp367-389 (accessed 17 March 2018).

  22GG, ‘Opium in Albany’, unpublished ms, GU.

  23Guardian (14 July 2005).

  24Telegraph (12 July 2005).

  25Letters, 384. See also Jocelyn Rickards, The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987), esp. 35–8.

  26Meyer, 124.

  27David Pearce and Mike Hill, ‘In the style of Graham Greene’, lecture, Graham Greene International Festival, Berkhamsted, 29 September 2007.

  28New Statesman (30 April 1949).

  29New Statesman (14 May 1949). For an account of this episode and others like it, see YE, 9–13.

  30See Ian Thomson’s interview with Soldati, ‘Postcard from Turin’, Independent (12 February 1994).

  31‘The Novelist and the Cinema: A Personal Experience’, Reflections, 240–1.

  32Falk, 79.

  33Falk, 78–9.

  35: Mau Mau

  1David Anderson, Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005), 1–8. My account in this paragraph follows Professor Anderson’s arguments.

  2Letters, 213.

  3GG to MG, Friday [28 August 1953?], BL.

  4Anderson, Histories of the Hanged, 83, 273–9, 331, and passim.

  5Anderson, Histories of the Hanged, 126–9.

  6YE, 32.

  7Sunday Times (29 November 1953).

  8GG to CW, 2 September 1953, GU.

  9The Times (8 March 1954).

  10GG to CW, 2 September 1953, GU.

  11Journal, 6–7 September 1953, GU.

  12David Anderson, email to RG, 17 April 2018.

  13WOE, 162.

  14GG to CW, 2 September 1953, GU.

  15GG to Maria Newall, 28 January 1974, BC.

  16GG to CW, 13 October 1954, GU.

  17David Anderson to RG, email, 12 April 2018; my comments on Whyatt and Nihill draw on observations made by Professor Anderson.

  18The Times (4 December 1953). Reprinted in YE, 32–4.

  19Sir John Barclay Nihill to GG, 11 December 1953, BC. This letter is not included in the finding aid to the Graham Greene collection, but can be found in file 73:36.

  20Durán, 374.

  21Sunday Times (27 September 1953 and 4 October 1953).

  22Guardian (7 June 2013 and 21 March 2017).

  23The Rt Hon William Hague, ‘Statement to Parliament on Settlement of Mau Mau Claims’, 6 June 2013: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-to-parliament-on-settlement-of-mau-mau-claims.

  36: Dien Bien Phu

  1‘Catholics at War’, Reflections, 209.

  2Journal, 9 January 1954, GU.

  3GG to MG, 28 December 1953, BL.

  4GG to FG, 21 March [1952], BC.

  5Trevor Wilson to GG, 29 September 1953, BC; GG to Trevor Wilson, 8 December 1953, BC.

  6Trevor Wilson to GG, 24 November 1953, BC.

  7Kevin Ruane’s research may bring forward further evidence on this point.

  8Goscha, 298.

  9‘Return to Indo-China’, Reflections, 186.

  10‘Before the Attack’, Reflections, 202.

  11Journal, 3–4 January 1954; Ted Morgan, Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War (New York: Random House, 2010), 169, 185, and 369.

  12GG to Lászlo Róbért, 8 July 1975, BC.

  13Goscha, 141–2.

  14WOE, 141.

  15Journal, 5–7 January 1954, GU.

  16GG, ‘Catholics at War’, 209–11.

  17http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blehu.html.

  18‘Catholics at War’, 207–8.

  19‘Catholics at War’, 212; Journal, 9 January 1954, GU.

  20Journal, 11 January 1954, GU.

  21Journal, 12–21 January 1954, GU.

  22Journal, 13 January 1954, GU.

  23WOE, 140; Morgan, Valley of Death, 241.

  24Goscha, 146.

  25Morgan, Valley of Death, 634.

  26Journal, 4 January 1954, GU.

  27GG to CW, 27 December 1
954, GU.

  28Peter Ryhiner, as told to Daniel P. Mannix, The Wildest Game (London: Cassell, 1959), 10–18, 56, and 224.

  29Passport of Catherine Walston, private collection of Oliver Walston.

  30The chronology is constructed from a series of letters and telegraphs from GG to Mercia Ryhiner Schwob Tinker Harrison at the Columbia University Library. For an overview of the relationship, see especially the letter of 26 April 1954. Greene’s relationship with Ryhiner came to light in Wise and Hill 2: 194.

  31Nicholas Wapshott, Rex Harrison: A Biography (London: Chatto & Windus, 1991), 315.

  32GG to CW, 4 March 1954, GU.

  33Wise and Hill 1: 171.

  34GG to René Cogny, 30 March 1954, BC; René Cogny to GG, 27 May 1956, BC.

  37: No One Expects the Inquisition

  1Cardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo to Cardinal Bernard Griffin, November 1954, BC. See Stephen Schloesser, ‘Altogether Adverse’, America (11 November 2000), archived at www.americamagazine.org. However, my discussion draws primarily on the more detailed article published shortly after Schloesser’s: Peter Godman, ‘Graham Greene’s Vatican Dossier’, The Atlantic Monthly (July–August 2001), 84–9. Drafts of Greene’s correspondence on this issue are located at BC.

  2Waugh (1980), 422–3.

  3YE, 40–2; Letters, 207–8; Waugh (1980), 429.

  4See Richard Leon Higdon, ‘A Textual History of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory’, Studies in Bibliography, 33 (1980), 234.

  5See Godman, ‘Graham Greene’s Vatican Dossier’, 86.

  6Letters, 360.

  7See Godman, ‘Graham Greene’s Vatican Dossier’, 85–6.

  8Stephen J. C. Andes, The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile: The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 170–4.

  9WOE, 67; Letters, 203–6.

  10Quoted in Godman, ‘Graham Greene’s Vatican Dossier’, 85–6.

  11Letters, 278.

  12Letters, 349.

  13GG to CW, 12 October 1954, GU.

  14GG to MG, 14 October [1953?], BL.

  15GG to FG, 4 June 1954, BC.

  16WOE, 167–70.

  17Wise and Hill 1: 30–1 and 172.

  18WOE, 167.

  19GG to MG, 10 June [1951], BL.

  20GG to Michael Davie, 18 November 1975, BC.

  21Korda, 350–4.

  22GG to CW, 27 June 1955, GU.

  23Korda, 350–8.

  24WOE, 170; GG to MB, 30 January 1956, Balliol.

  38: A Reformed Character

  1GG to Harold Acton, 26 March 1957, BC.

  2GG to CW, 21 June 1954, GU.

  3GG to CW, 30 June 1954, GU.

  4Letters, 209–10.

  5Bernard Diederich, Trujillo: The Death of the Dictator (1978; Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2000), 12.

  6BD to RG, email, 8 May 2018.

  7‘The Nightmare Republic’ (Sunday Telegraph, 22 September 1963; Reflections, 259) and in TC, 179–83.

  8Letters, 210–11; WOE, 162–7.

  9Diederich, 88.

  10Diederich, 88–90; Letters, 210–11; Hull, 5.

  39: Accidents Can Always Happen

  1Keith, 7.

  2Seth Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), 131.

  3YE, 34–5.

  4Journal, 17 and 18 February 1955, GU. Note: GG incorrectly marked 1956 on the front of this journal.

  5Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam, 133.

  6Journal, 19 February 1955, GU.

  7Journal, 21 and 23 February 1955, GU.

  8Journal, 20 February 1955, GU.

  9Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam, 194–5.

  10Goscha, 112.

  11Journal,10 March 1955, GU.

  12New York Times (27 December 1966).

  13Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam, 185–8.

  14Journal, 10 March 1955, GU.

  15Goscha, 462–3.

  16Journal, 21 February 1955, GU.

  17Journal, 4 February, 11 and 8 March 1955, GU; New York Times (7 December 1966).

  18Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam, 206.

  19Journal, 2 March 1955, GU.

  20Wise and Hill 2: 134.

  21Journal, 9 and 21 March 1955, GU.

  22West, 171–2.

  23Ruane (2017).

  24Journal, 4 and 8 March 1955, GU.

  25GG to C. L. Sulzberger, 19 May 1955, BC.

  26Journal, 12 and 13 March 1955, GU.

  27Sunday Times (1 May 1955).

  28New York Times (19 January 1961).

  29Jacobs, 139–40.

  30Journal, 15–18 March 1955, GU.

  31Journal, 19 March 1955, GU.

  32Journal, 20–24 March 1955, GU.

  33‘Last Drama of Indo China’, Sunday Times (24 April, 1 May and 8 May 1955).

  40: Anita

  1GG to CW, 6 and 7 July 1955, GU.

  2FG to GG, 23 March 1955, BC.

  3RG interview with CB, 20 February 2014.

  4GG to MG, 24 August 1955, BL.

  5GG to CW, 27 August 1955, GU.

  6‘The Half-Defeated’, Sunday Times (8 January 1956), and ‘Between “Pax” and Patriotism’, Sunday Times (15 January 1956).

  7GG to CW, 20 November 1955, GU.

  8Wise and Hill 2: 178–9.

  9New York Times (2 January 1979).

  10Journal, 22 November 1955, GU.

  11Journal, 25 November 1955, GU.

  12GG to T. S. Eliot, 3 September 1956, BC. T. S. Eliot to Robert Giroux, 20 November 1956, Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

  13Jan T. Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz (New York: Random House, 2006), 35 and 148–9.

  14Journal, 11 November 1955, GU.

  15François Truffaut, Hitchcock (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967), 149.

  16New York Times (6 June 1952).

  17See http://www.dagerman.us (accessed 17 September 2019). This website is maintained by Lo Dagerman, the daughter of Anita Björk and Stig Dagerman.

  18My account of the beginnings of the relationship between Greene and Björk is drawn chiefly from Meyer, 132–6.

  19Journal, 14 November 1955, GU.

  20GG to AB, 2 October 1989, GU.

  41: Our Man on the Potomac

  1New Yorker (7 April 1956).

  2Washington Post (24 December 1955).

  3See Agreement between Graham Greene and Figaro Incorporated, 4 March 1956, Graham Greene Collection (91.15), HRC. This agreement effectively gave the rights to Lucy Caroline Greene, and they were then sold to Mankiewicz in a separate agreement; GG to CB, [December 1956], private collection of CB.

  4The Times (9 January 1957).

  5‘The Novelist and the Cinema: A Personal Experience’, Reflections, 238.

  6Garry O’ Connor, Scofield: The Biography (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2002), 131–5. Olivier’s comments, quoted here, appear in Olivier’s Confessions of an Actor (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982), 261–2.

  42: The Filthiest Book I Have Ever Read

  1Sunday Times (25 December 1955).

  2Sunday Express (29 January 1956); YE, 76–88. My discussion of the John Gordon Society is largely based on this source. The papers of the society can be found in the Sutro Collection, Bod.

  3ODNB.

  4Spectator (30 March 1956).

  5Spectator (29 September 1984).

  6‘A Thorn on the Yellow Rose’, Daily Telegraph Magazine (22 November 1974).

  7The Times (22 August 1953).

  8Mary Carolyn Hollers George, ‘The Anglo-Texan Society 1953–1979: A Cross-Cultural Alliance’, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 101:2 (October 1997), 214–38.

  9Sunday Telegraph (23 June 1985).

  10Nicholas Shakespeare, Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France (London: Harvill Secker, 2013), 46.

  11GS, manuscript notes, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  12Letters, 276.


  13Shakespeare, Priscilla, 46.

  14GS, manuscript notes, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  43: 6½ Raves

  1‘Nobody to Blame’, The Tenth Man (London: The Bodley Head, 1985), 18–30.

  2The details of GG’s visit to Haiti are taken from Diederich, 90–5.

  3Diederich, 92.

  4Hull, 109.

  5WOE, 191.

  6New York Times (1 December 1956).

  7Antoni Kapcia, Cuba in Revolution: A History Since the Fifties (London: Reaktion Books, 2008), 22; information from Christopher Hull and Bernard Diederich.

  8GG to CW, 23 December 1956, GU.

  9Letters, 222–3.

  10GG, ‘Dear Dr Falkenheim’, CSS, 565.

  11GG, ‘A Visit to Morin’, CSS, 262.

  12GG to Patrick Lawlor, 14 April 1975, BC.

  13See Letters, 367 and 409.

  14WOE, 180.

  15Jonathan Croall, Sybil Thorndike: A Star of Life (London: Haus Books, 2008), 402–3.

  16GG to MG, Christmas Day [1956], BL.

  17GG to CW, 9 January 1957, GU.

  18GG to CW, 1 February 1957, GU.

  19New York Times (6 May 1957).

  20Sheridan Morley, John G: The Authorised Biography of John Gielgud (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001), 285–6.

  21John Gielgud, Gielgud’s Letters, ed. Richard Mangan (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), 207.

  22The Times (1 April 1958).

  23Gielgud, Gielgud’s Letters, 207 and 223.

  24WOE, 180–1.

  25The Potting Shed, CP, 132.

  44: A Mixture of Petrol and Vodka

  1Letters, 222.

  2GG to CW, 4 January 1957, GU.

  3GG to GS, 4 December 1957, Bod.

  4GS, transcript of conversation with YC, 3 July 1994, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  5GG to CW, 8 November 1957, GU.

  6The main source for the trip to China is ‘A Weed Among the Flowers’, Reflections, 394–402.

  7ODNB.

  8GG to CW, Holy Saturday [20 April 1957], GU. See also, Sherry 3: 74.

  9Alan Bold, MacDiarmid: A Critical Biography (London: John Murray, 1988), 411–12.

  10GG to Chen Siming, 27 June 1982, BC.

  11For details about Hu Feng, see, for example, Kirk A. Denton, The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature (Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 1998), 155 and passim.