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by Richard Greene


  5Rufina, 424.

  6Borovik, 370–1; see also Knightley’s introduction, vii–xvii.

  7GG to Josef Škvorecký, 15 March 1987, BC.

  8Letters, 392.

  9Rufina, 173.

  10Borovik, 371.

  11Rufina, 174.

  12Borovik, 371–2.

  13GS, ‘Visit to GG 7 March 1987’, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  14KP to GG, 24 September 1986, GU.

  15ED to JR, 12 December 1982, Reid Collection, Balliol.

  16Lewis, 486.

  17Information from Sarah Greene.

  18GS, ‘Visit to GG 7 March 1987’, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  19Rufina, 177.

  20Borovik, 372

  21GS, ‘Visit to GG 7 March 1987’, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  22Guardian (15 February 1987).

  23Letters, 379–80.

  24GG to Josef Škvorecký, 15 March 1987, BC.

  25Information from Professor Sam Solecki.

  26Cloetta, 143.

  27Durán, 24.

  28GG to BD, 27 June 1985, BC.

  29GG to Josef Škvorecký, 15 March 1987, BC.

  30The Times (17 February 1987).

  31‘The Meeting in the Kremlin’, Reflections, 405–7.

  32New York Times (16 March 1990).

  33Interview with Sarah Greene, 21 June 2019; see Lewis, 486.

  34Interview with Sarah Greene, 21 June 2019.

  35Letters, 393–4.

  36Interview with Sarah Greene, 21 June 2019; see Lewis, 486.

  37GS, ‘21 October 1987 Visit to Antibes’, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  38Nicholas Elliott to ED, 1 September 1987, BC.

  39ED to Nicholas Elliott, 21 September 1987, BC.

  40Daily Telegraph (19 February 1988).

  41The Times (19 February 1988).

  42Rufina, 179.

  43New York Times (4 June 2000).

  44Borovik, 374.

  45GS, transcript of telephone conversation with GG, 13 October 1988, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  46Rufina, 179.

  77: The Late Rounds

  1Letters, 401–2.

  2Information from Andrew Biswell.

  3GG to William Igoe, 26 March 1984, BC.

  4Pierre Joannon, ‘Graham Greene and the Honorary Consul’, lecture, Graham Greene International Festival, Berkhamsted, 23 September 2017.

  5My account of the mergers is based almost entirely on Adamson (2009), 140–71, and on further information kindly provided by Professor Adamson.

  6The Times (24 March 1987).

  7The Times (28 March 1987).

  8MR to GG, 11 March 1988, Reinhardt Collection, BL.

  9GS, manuscript notes, 29 January 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  10London Review of Books (7 July 1994).

  11London Review of Books (22 September 1994).

  12Seán Donlon, ‘Graham Greene and the GPA Book Award’, in Jane Conroy, ed., Franco-Irish Connections: Essays, Memoirs and Poems in Honour of Pierre Joannon (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009), 78–81

  13Independent (10 May 1989); GG to Gloria Emerson, 28 July 1989, BC.

  14GS, transcript of telephone conversation with YC, 3 February 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  15Irish Times (4 April 1991).

  78: A Sense of Movement

  1Christopher Burstall, ‘Graham Greene: “The Hunted Man”’, post-production script (1968), private collection of Sue Burstall.

  2National Review (14 October 1988).

  3Letters, 404; I confess to shamelessly recycling a joke here.

  4Letters, 367.

  5Durán, 100.

  6Letters, 409.

  7Letters, 409.

  8Letters, 349–50.

  9Mark Abley, interview with GG, Woman’s Journal (March 1981), 116–18.

  10GS, transcript of telephone conversation with YC, 3 February 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  11I am grateful for information from Dr Ramon Rami Porta. This corrects the assertion in Letters, xxxii, that he was suffering from leukaemia.

  12GS, transcript of telephone conversation with YC, 15 February 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  13New York Times (18 November 1989).

  14ABC News (4 January 1990).

  15GS, transcript of telephone conversation with YC, 29 January 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  16GS, transcript of telephone conversation with YC, 3 February 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  17Boston Globe (14 February 1990); quoted in Diederich, 296.

  18Washington Post (30 January 1991). See Diederich, 299.

  19New York Times (27 February 1990).

  20GG to FG, 12 February 1990, Reinhardt Collection, BL.

  21GG to LD, 5 August 1990, GU.

  22Durán, 330.

  23Information from Louise Dennys.

  24Pierre Smolik, Graham Greene: The Swiss Chapter (Vevey: Call Me Edouard, 2013), 149.

  25GS, transcript of telephone conversation with YC, 14 June 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  26GG to LD, 7 September 1990, BC.

  27GS, transcript of telephone conversation with YC, 27 September 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.

  28Cloetta, 185.

  29Cloetta, 190–1.

  30Cloetta, 188.

  31Cloetta, 185.

  32Cloetta, 189; Durán, 341–5.

  33TCE, 180.

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  My first and greatest obligation is to the children of Graham Greene, Caroline Bourget and Francis Greene, who have treated me with the greatest kindness over many years and steadily encouraged my research, while leaving me at liberty to form my own views of the evidence. I am also indebted to other members of Graham Greene’s family: Andrew Bourget, Jonathan Bourget, the late Amanda Dennys, Louise Dennys, Nick Dennys, the late Graham C. Greene, James Greene, Oliver Greene, Sarah Greene, and Peter Walker.

  I am very grateful to Graham Greene’s literary estate and to Verdant SA for permission to quote from his works and to reproduce images on which they hold the copyright.

  I would like to record my debt to friends of Graham Greene, who have helped with my research. Bernard Diederich, who died as this book went to press, was generous to an extraordinary degree, answering a steady stream of enquiries related to Graham Greene’s visits to Haiti and Central America – any errors I have made about these matters are entirely my own fault; he also kindly gave permission for his works to be freely quoted and his photographs to illustrate these pages.

  Oliver Walston has welcomed me to his home at Thriplow on several occasions, discussed his mother’s relationship with Graham Greene, and allowed me, most generously, to quote from his unpublished family memoir.

  I am also deeply indebted to friends of Graham Greene, including Judith Adamson, Marie Françoise Allain, David Cornwell, Euan Cameron, Ginette Diederich, Julian Evans, Judy Taylor Hough, the late Alberto Huerta, SJ, Pierre Joannon, Michael Korda, the late Michel Lechat, Luis Poirot, the late Lászlo Róbért, the late Josef Škvorecký, and Ralph Wright, OSB.

  It is no longer possible to study Graham Greene without incurring a very great debt to other scholars and writers. I am extremely for the assistance of: Mark Abley, David Anderson, Stephen Andes, Andrew Biswell, Margaret Bluett, Tim Butcher, the late Justin Cartwright, Greg Chamberlain, Kent Davis, Robert Murray Davis, Quentin Falk, Danielle Floode, Carlos Villar Flor, Patrice Fox, the late John Geary, CSSp, Dermot Gilvary, Massimo De Giuseppe, François Gallix, Johanne Elster Hanson, Selena Hastings, Christopher Hawtree, the late Lucy Hill, Michael Hill, Christopher Hull, Kay Redfield Jamison, Charles Keith, the late Jeremy Lewis, J. Patrice McSherry, Fabio Mangone, Carlos Guevara Mann, Michael Meeuwis, Anthony Mockler, Tamas F. Molnar, Gilles Mongeau, SJ, Thomas P. O’ Connor, Peter O’ Mahony, Karl Orend, the late David Pearce, Ramon Rami Porta, Kevin Ruane, Michelangelo Sabatino, Martyn Sampson, Nicholas Shakespeare, Edward Short, Adam Sisman, Sam Solecki, James Stone, William Sullivan, Nicholas Swarbrick, Margaret Swarbrick, Ian Thomson, Brigitte Timmermann, Claire Tran
, Richard Watson, Nigel West, Jon Wise, Alexander Waugh, and Julia G. Young.

  I have benefited enormously from the loyalty and shrewd advice of Richard Beswick and Zoe Gullen of Little, Brown UK, and Jill Bialosky of W.W. Norton. My literary agent Andrew Gordon of David Higham Associates has stood behind this book, unfailingly, and encouraged me to write it as I believed the evidence dictated. His retired colleague Bruce Hunter supported my work for over thirty years, and has remained a dear and constant friend.

  For permission to quote from the works of Evelyn Waugh, I am grateful to his literary estate and to Alexander Waugh. For permission to quote from the Sutro papers, I am grateful to the President and Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford. For permission to quote from an interview conducted by Christopher Burstall and the BBC, I am grateful to Sue Burstall. I also thank Giles Clark, Rufina Philby, Helen Womack, Nick Holdsworth and Patrick von Richthofen. For many kinds of assistance, I am grateful to librarians at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the British Library, the Burns Library, Boston College, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, the McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa, the Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, The National Archives at Kew, and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. The research for this book has been handsomely assisted by a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

  I am finally most grateful for the love and support of Tanya Berezuk, Samuel Greene, and Sarah Greene, which have lifted my heart in times of difficulty and allowed me to see this work to its end.

  INDEX

  Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.

  Abwehr 149, 150, 292

  Achebe, Chinua 86

  Achill Island (County Mayo) 170–1, 211, 228

  Action Française (French royalists) 77

  Acton, Harold 24, 33, 34, 252

  Adamson, Judith 414, 498

  Adzhubei, Alexei 352

  ‘A.E.’ (George William Russell) 349

  Afghanistan 426, 427

  Aguado, Macario Fernández 119–20

  Albania 350

  Albery, Donald 228, 361

  Aldermaston 323

  Algeria 341–2

  All-African People’s Conference (Accra, 1958) 311

  Allain, Marie-Françoise 325

  Alleg, Henri 341, 342

  Allen, Larry 217–18

  Allende, Salvador 409, 411–12, 439

  Ambler, Eric 339

  American Academy of Arts and Letters 393

  Amnesty International 363, 391

  Anacapri, Villa Rosaio in 197, 227, 230, 252, 263, 289, 330, 369, 371, 394; Korda gives to GG 182–3; productive writing at 183, 231, 407, 422; GG sells (1990) 505–6

  Anaconda (American firm) 409

  Anderson, George 52, 55

  Andropov, Yuri 427

  Anglicanism 94, 176, 503

  Anglo-Texan Society 273–4

  Angola 420, 428

  Annakin, Ken 251

  Antibes 368–9, 371, 414, 505–6

  Anti-Slavery and Aborigines’ Protection Society 81–2, 92

  Aramburu, Pedro Eugenio 400–1

  Ardizzone, Edward 413

  Argentina 399, 400–1, 406–7, 410–11, 446, 448

  Arias, Arnulfo 437, 441, 444, 450, 486

  armadillo, nine-banded 308

  Astor, David 180, 412

  Asturias, Miguel Angel 410

  Attenborough, Richard 165–6

  Attlee, Clement 164

  Auden, W. H. 75, 316, 329, 367

  Auschwitz 264

  Ayer, A. J. (Freddie) 210, 232, 273, 502

  Baddeley, Hermione 148, 165–6

  Bagnold, Enid 27

  Bajeux, Jean-Claude 363, 364

  Balaguer, Joaquín 365

  Ball, Beatrice (‘Twinkle’) 191, 192

  Ballestrino, Esther 401

  Baltic States 78–9

  Bangkok 247

  Bank of London and Montreal 463

  Banville, John, Book of Evidence 499

  Bao Dai (Annamite emperor) 204, 205, 208, 221, 256–7, 259

  Baptiste, Fred 363, 378, 379

  Baptiste, Renel 363

  Barbot, Clément 354, 355–6, 357, 359

  Barclay, Edwin 87

  Barrington-Ward, Robert 66

  Basque territory 429, 432

  Bastos, Augusto Roa 402

  Batista, Fulgencio 278–9, 291–2, 293, 294, 295, 299, 300

  Baudouin, King of Belgium 312

  Baytelman, David 411

  BBC 33, 201, 294–5, 323, 385, 396–8, 501

  Beaton, Cecil 139

  Beauclerk, Charles 180

  Beaumont, Binkie 362

  Begin, Menachem 390

  Beirut 346–7, 494

  Belfast 138–9

  Belgium: missionaries in Vietnam xi–xii, 215, 245, 308, 314; and the Congo 82, 308–18

  Belize 453–5

  Bell, Kenneth 4, 22, 60

  Bellamy, Ralph 185

  Belloc, Hilaire 265

  Ben Greet players 42

  Ben Tre (Mekong Delta) 207, 221

  Benedict XV, Pope 215

  Beneš, Edvard 181

  Bennett, Arnold 56

  Benoit, François 356–7

  Benoit, Rigaud 278

  Benson, Theodora 75

  Bergman, Ingrid 233, 326

  Berkhamsted 2–3, 4, 6, 10, 13–17, 50, 76, 82

  Berkhamsted School 3–4, 6, 9–12, 13–17, 21–2, 50, 202, 301, 349

  Berkhamstedian (school magazine) 23, 24

  Berlin 78; Berlin Wall 347–9

  Berlin, Isaiah 306

  Bernanos, George, The Diary of a Country Priest 289–90

  Bernstorff, Albrecht Graf von 27, 28, 78

  Berval, René de 217

  Betjeman, John 102, 139

  Bevan, Nye 298

  Biche, Marie (née Schebeko) 188, 220, 296, 330, 343, 344, 369, 370, 459; archive of GG’s letters to xiv; GG hands Paris flat to 289, 506; GG buys a car for 423–4

  Bilsborrow, Henry 61

  Björk, Anita 229, 266–8, 277, 284–5, 295–6, 303, 374, 458

  Blackwell, Basil 34, 37, 40

  Blanco, Luis Carrero 429

  Bletchley Park 150, 152

  Blixen, Karen, Out of Africa 235

  Blond, Anthony 162

  Bloy, Léon 122, 130, 198

  Blum, Robert 221

  Blundell, Michael 236

  Blunden, Edmund 66–7

  Blunt, Anthony 152

  Bodleian Library (Oxford) 276

  The Bodley Head 53, 60, 162, 331, 413, 474–5, 498–9; GG as director at 225, 289–90, 338–9; Max Reinhardt acquires 289; GG moves from Heinemann to 338–9

  Bolívar, Natalia 293

  Bolivia 399, 411

  Book Society 57, 66–7

  book trade, second-hand 135–6, 323

  Borge, Tomás 453, 469, 479, 485

  Borges, Jorge Luis 410–11

  Borovik, Genrikh 488–9, 490, 491, 492, 495

  Bosch, Juan 357, 365

  Bossom, Sir Alfred 273

  Bost, Pierre 270

  Boston College 197, 505

  Boucarut, Hô, 217, 319, 320, 321

  Boucarut, Paul 217, 319–20, 321

  Boulting brothers 165–6

  Bourget, Caroline (daughter) xiv, 91, 145, 163, 188, 212; birth of (1933) 75–6; on GG 76, 369; as rancher in western Canada 163, 264, 270, 279–80, 295, 326, 327, 330; marries Jean Bourget 322–3, 344; death of son Richard (1962) 344–5; lives in Switzerland 416, 457, 504, 506

  Bourget, Jean 322–3, 344

  Bourget, Jonathan 416

  Bowen, Elizabeth 102, 139, 180–1, 189

  Bowen, Marjorie, The Viper of Milan 8–9

  Bowlby, Cuthbert 137

  Box, Sydney 166

  Brain, Russell 195–6

  Brandt, R. Van den 315r />
  Brandt, Willy 348

  Brazil 77, 399, 411

  Brezhnev, Leonid 383, 427

  Brighton 106–9, 174, 300

  Brighton Rock (1938) xiii, 7, 64, 67, 95, 104, 419, 475–6; Catholic themes in 59, 105, 109–10, 147, 148, 165; and The Green Cockatoo 100; gramophone recording in 102, 109; GG on 104–5; mercy of God theme 105, 110; depiction of Brighton in 106, 108–9; plot 107, 108–10; as commercial success 124; GG horrified by stage version 148, 165; collection edition (1970) 339; Yvonne Cloetta on 414

  Britain in Pictures series (Collins) 139

  British American Tobacco Company 36, 39

  British European Airways 328

  British Film Institute 97

  British Union of Fascists 76, 158

  Brodie, Patrick Tait 144

  Brompton Oratory 44, 50

  Brook, Natasha (née Parry) 252, 253

  Brook, Peter 252, 253, 270

  Brown, William (Bishop of Southwark) 178

  Browne, Sir Thomas, Religio Medici 54

  Browning, Robert, ‘Bishop Blougram’s Apology’ 397

  Brownlow, Earl 2, 9

  Bruce, William Speirs 9–10

  Brussels 306, 311

  Buchan, John 8, 25

  Budberg, Moura 78, 79, 329

  Bunker, Ellsworth 442

  Burgess, Anthony 249, 424, 497–8

  Burgess, Guy 152, 153, 328–9, 345, 346, 382

  Burns, Tom 112, 434

  A Burnt-Out Case (1961) 20, 89, 330, 365, 366, 370; Querry in 281, 313, 314, 315, 317–18, 325, 335–8; Father Damien as influence on 307; GG’s research in the Congo 312–18; psychological theme of 313, 317, 318, 335–6; distress of writing of 325, 326, 327, 359; critical reception 335; and Catholicism 336, 337–8

  Burstall, Christopher 396–8, 501

  Burton, Richard 373–4, 378

  Busch, Frederick 435

  Bush, George W. xii–xiii

  Butcher, Tim 85, 86, 88–9, 151

  Buthelezi, Mangosuthu 420

  Butler, Christopher 178

  Cable Street, Battle of (4 October 1936) 76, 389

  Cadco Developments 332–3

  Caetano, Marcelo 428

  Caine, Michael 405

  Cairncross, John 152–3

  Calder-Marshall, Arthur 94

  Calles, Plutarco Elías 113, 116

  Camacho, María de la Luz 123

  Câmara, Dom Hélder 402

  Cambodia 246

  Cameron, A. C. 97

  Cameron, Euan 475

  Cameroon 319–21

  Camp David Accords (1978) 390

 

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