Panama Papers scandal (2016) 438
Paraguay 57, 398–400, 401–3, 406, 410, 417, 420, 448
Paramount 98, 147–8
Paredes, Rubén Darío 478, 479, 481
Paris 188, 192, 195, 208, 212–13, 289, 326; GG visits communists in (1925) 29, 70; flat at 130 Boulevard Malesherbes 289, 330, 342, 506
Parsons, Ian 101, 102
Parsons, Louella 270
Paschoud, Jean-Felix 333
Pasternak, Boris 385
Pastora, Edén 453, 471
Pasture (holding company) 331
the Patriot (right-wing publication) 27
Patrizi, Bernardo 209
Paul VI, Pope (Giovanni Battista Montini) 50, 249–50, 407
Peake, Mervyn 159–60, 252
Peaky Blinders (television show) 108
Pearce, David 6, 16
Péguy, Charles 110, 146, 177
Penang 247
Penguin 331, 332, 333
Peres, Shimon 390
Perón, Juan 400, 410, 444
Pershing, John 20
Peter Jones department store 124
Peters, A. D. 34, 47
Pettiward, Daniel 168
Peyrefitte, Alain 474
Pham Ngoc Chi (Bishop of Bui Chu) 207, 214, 222, 245, 257
Philby, Aileen 345–6
Philby, Eleanor, Kim Philby: The Spy I Loved 382, 425
Philby, Kim xiv, 75, 142–3, 150, 153–5, 156, 275–6, 329; heads MI6 Section IX 154, 155; My Silent War 154, 275–6, 383, 424; exposure of (1963) 345–7, 349–50; as correspondent in Beirut 346; flees to Moscow (1963) 347, 349, 494; Le Carré’s Haydon based on 382–3; wish to meet GG (1970s/80s) 424–6, 488–9; correspondence with GG (from 1978) 425–6, 489, 497; meetings with GG (Moscow, 1986/87) 488, 489–90, 494–5; death of (1988) 495; television appearance in Russia (1988) 495
Philby, Rufina 489–90, 491, 494, 495, 496
Philippe-Auguste (Haitian artist) 360
Phuong (partner of de Berval) 217
Piasecki, Bolesław 265
Pick, Frank 132–3
Pinochet, Augusto 400, 409, 448, 493
Pinto, Vivian de Sola 60
Pio, Padre (Capuchin friar) 210
Pius X, Pope 176
Pius XI, Pope 113–14, 215
Pius XII, Pope 117, 209–10, 216, 249
Pizzardo, Giuseppe 118, 248, 249–50
Playboy magazine 419, 421
poetry 18–19, 24–5, 32, 47, 230, 316; verses on BBC Radio (22 January 1925) 33; poets of the seventeenth century 59–60, 228
Poirot, Luis 411
Poland 264–6
polar exploration 9–10
Pollinger, Laurence 148, 324–5, 332, 370, 423
Portocarrera, René 374
Portugal 142, 149–51, 267, 277, 284, 299, 399, 428; ‘Garbo’ case in 151, 277; GG travels in with Durán 239, 429–30, 433; ‘Carnation Revolution’ (1974) 428–9
Il Postino (Michael Radford film, 1994) 409
Potter, Stephen 125
Pound, Ezra, Personae 18–19
Powell, Anthony 175, 187
Powell, Selwyn 97, 101
The Power and the Glory (1940) xiii, 121, 125, 152, 366, 421; whisky priest in 8, 65, 103, 121, 129–30, 306; Catholic themes in 105, 118, 129–30, 147, 248–50, 318; as critical success 130–1; Hawthornden Prize awarded for 131; dedication to Gervase Mathews 135; denounced by the Inquisition 248–50
The Power and the Glory (play) 270–1
Prague Spring 385, 409
Preminger, Otto 405
Price, George 453–5
Priestley, J. B. 67, 71, 97, 102, 290
Pritchett, Mary (née Leonard) 66, 68, 95–6, 115, 183
Pritchett, V. S. 189, 371, 487
Pro, Miguel 114, 123, 130
process theology 408
Profumo affair 347
psychoanalysis 18, 19–20, 31, 49, 94, 147; and GG’s view of Africa 80, 86; GG and Eric Strauss 195, 196, 202, 263; Freudians 196
Purna, Kit 93
Putin, Vladimir 427
Quayle, Anthony 289
Quennell, Peter 10–11, 15, 17, 21
The Quiet American (1955) xv, 58, 216, 219, 222, 242, 250, 336–7, 366; American reaction to xii–xiii, 269–70; GG has idea for 208, 221–2; dedication to René and Phuong 216–17; theme of American meddling 221–2; Continental Hotel bombing (1952) 258; Liebling’s review of 269; Russian stage version 328; copyright given to Francis 331; Philby on 491, 495
Quinn, Anthony 199
race: black soldiers in occupied Ruhr 28; reference to Jews 64, 108; inter-racial couples in Vietnam 217; apartheid in South Africa 235, 312, 419, 420, 465; in colonial Kenya 235; in colonial Congo 310; skin colour in Haiti 353, 364, 365–6, 379; and Panama Canal Zone 436
Radio Free Europe 384
Rahner, Karl 337
Rain Queen in Limpopo Province 420
Random House 498–9
Rank Organisation 173
Ransome, Patrick 101
Ratcliffe, Michael 421
Rattigan, Terence 165
Read, Herbert 94–5, 102, 161
Reagan, Ronald 439, 442, 460, 465, 477, 480, 483
Redgrave, Michael 166, 270, 304–5
Reed, Carol 173–4, 179, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 193, 300, 302, 370
Reid, Josephine 325, 368, 423, 461
Reilly, Sir Patrick 328
Reinhardt, Max xiv, 289–90, 321, 331, 338, 368, 385, 461, 474–5, 498–9
Rhodesia 37, 420
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 27
Richardson, Ralph 174, 289, 302, 304, 361, 362
Richmond, Kenneth 18, 19–20, 21, 49
Rickards, Jocelyn 232, 266, 502
Riddoch, George 49, 50
Rilke, Rainer Maria 119
Róbért, Lászlo 424–5
Roberts, Cecil 41
Robles, Marco 437
Rochester, Second Earl of 59–60, 174, 210
Rockefeller, Nelson 448
Rodgers and Hammerstein 193
Roe, Thomas 330–4, 366–7, 370
Romero, Carlos Humberto 463–4
Romero, Óscar 463, 464
Roosevelt, Theodore 436
Ross, Noël 201, 203
Rossellini, Roberto 233
Rost, Hilary 11
Rothenstein, Elizabeth 169, 170
Rothenstein, John 168–9
Roturman (Roe’s company) 330, 332, 333
Royal Shakespeare Company 422
Royal Victoria Sausage Company 332–3, 366–7
Royde-Smith, Naomi 18, 24
Ruane, Kevin 207–8
Runciman, Steven, The Medieval Manichee 408
Rupert, Anton 420
Russell, Bertrand 199
Ryan, Tony 499, 500
Ryhiner, Mercia 247, 266, 476
Sabini, Charles ‘Darby’ 108
Sackville-West, Edward 24, 177, 195, 199
Saigon 206–7, 215, 217, 247, 256–60
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 321
Salamanca 431
Salan, Raoul 219, 220, 341
Salazar, António de Oliveira 149–51, 277, 428
SALT II agreement (1979) 426
Samoa 326
San Antonio (Texas) 115, 129
San Francisco 326–7
San Sebastián 432
Sánchez, Waldemar 406
Sander, Allegra 252, 266
Sanders, George 333
Santamaria, Haydée 295, 374, 375
Santiago (Cuba) 279, 293–5
Santiago de Compostela 432
Sarabia, Nydia 293, 294, 295
Saturday Review of Literature 130–1
Saunders, Amanda (niece) 324, 345, 423, 507
Saunders, W. A. 14
Schack, Baron von 227
Scharansky, Anatoly (Natan) 385
Schillebeeckx, Edward 503
School of the Americas (Panama Canal Zone) 437
Schweitzer, Albert 310
Scofield, P
aul 270–1, 304, 362
Scorsese, Martin 185
Scott, Robert 23
Second World War: Macleod as news presenter 33; German occupation of Norway 62; French resistance 77, 142, 161; approach of (1938–9) 124–5; outbreak of (1939) 127–8; GG in London during 128, 132–6, 148, 149–50, 164; GG at Ministry of Information 132–3; Clapham Common house bombed (1940) 133–4; the Blitz in London 133–6; GG as ARP warden 134–6, 164; GG’s intelligence work during 137–45, 146, 149–53, 154–7, 277; Portugal during 142, 149–51; Operation Torch (1942) 145; Battle of Kursk (1943) 152; Normandy landings 152; D-Day 154; collaborators 161; Nazi atrocities 161; V-weapons 164; in Indochina 204, 222; and the Congo 310; Comet Line into Spain 318
Seitz, Charles (Charlie Sykes) 61
Selznick, David O. 184, 185, 186, 190, 304
Selznick, Irene Mayer 304, 326
Senate House, University of London 132
Sestigers (‘sixtiers’) movement of Afrikaans writers 419
Seychelles 419
Shackleton, Sir Ernest 9
Shades of Greene (Thames Television series) 270, 430
Shakespeare, Nicholas, Priscilla 275
Shakespeare, William, Hamlet 336
Shamir, Yitzhak 390
Shaw, Glen Byam 304
Shaw, Run Run (film producer) 201
Shearer, Jeremy 465–6, 468
Sheed, Frank 112, 117
Sheen, Fulton 376
Shelden, Michael xiv
Sheringham (Norfolk) 30–1
Sherry, Norman xiv, 121, 417–18
Siberia 492, 494
Sierra Leone xvi, 137, 139, 175, 395–6; GG and Barbara in 84, 85, 86, 396; Krios or Creoles in 85; GG’s WW2 service in 140–5, 146
Sight and Sound 102
Simon, Dame Kathleen 82
Simon & Schuster 370–1, 404
Singapore 201, 203, 205, 247
Sinn Féin 25
Sintra (Portugal) 239, 429, 433
Sinyavsky, Andrei 383–5, 488
Sitwell, Edith 24–5, 27, 139, 191, 231
Six Day War (1967) 388–90, 391
Skiathos, island of 212
Skinner, John 343
Škvorecký, Josef 181, 385–6, 387, 492, 493
slavery: and Greene family history 4, 81; in Liberia 80–1, 83, 85, 87, 312
Smollett, Peter 180
Soares, Mário 429
Society for Psychical Research 18
Socorro Juridico 464–5
Soldati, Mario 233, 234, 395
Solomon, Flora 346
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 385, 488
Somoza, Anastasio 446–7, 452, 453, 462
the Sorbonne 91, 188, 440
A Sort of Life (memoir, 1971) 39, 41–2, 43, 47, 50, 395, 408; childhood and school days in 1, 2, 11, 14, 16, 21; and GG’s writing for Strauss 2, 196; as unreliable 14, 16, 32, 395
South Africa 419–21, 465–6, 467–9; apartheid 235, 312, 419, 420, 465
Soviet Union: show trials 62; forced collectivization of farms 63; human rights abuses 63, 65, 383–5, 425, 488, 491–2; and Baltic States 78; and Cambridge spy ring 150, 152–5, 328–9, 382, 383, 425–6, 489; and Philby 150, 153–5, 382, 383; Battle of Kursk (1943) 152; takeover of Eastern Europe 181; support for Viet Minh 205; and Poland 264–5; and the Congo 311; Francis Greene’s visits to 323; GG’s trips to 328, 426, 489–93, 494–6; Writers’ Union 328, 488–9; Golitsyn’s defection to West 346; Cuban alliance with 351, 355, 375; invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) 375, 385, 488; crushes Hungarian revolution (1956) 385, 488; Gorbachev in 427, 488, 492, 493; Forum for a Nuclear Free World (Moscow, 1987) 490–3; courting of GG 492–3; celebration of GG’s eighty-fourth birthday 495–6
Spadafora, Hugo 486
Spain: GG’s holiday in (1921) 20, 432; Carlist wars in 40, 57–8; Civil War (1936–9) 62, 111, 123, 128, 153, 431; Franco regime 149, 429, 430, 431; ‘Garbo’ case in 151, 277; GG travels in with Durán 239, 429–34, 465; Batista flees to 299; Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen) 431
Spark, Muriel 288–9
Special Operations Executive (SOE) 141–2
Spectator 68, 77, 92, 97, 98, 102, 134, 247, 272, 484
Spellman, Cardinal (of New York) 216, 225, 258–9, 376
Spender, Stephen 306
Spinks, James 108
spiritualism 18, 19, 66
Squire, J. C. 47
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London 195
St Francis Xavier 201
St John of the Cross 433
St John-Stevas, Norman 272
St Kitts (West Indies) 4, 81
St Teresa of Avila 432–3
Stafford, John 233, 251, 277
Stalin, Joseph 62, 433
Stavisky, Alexandre 77
Steinbeck, John, Travels with Charley 404
Steiner, Rudolf 38
Stellar Press 474–5
Sterling, John 40
Stern, Karl 279
Stevens, Siaka 396
Stevenson, Robert Louis 5, 8, 307, 410
Stockholm 228–9, 266, 267–8, 284, 295–6; Royal Dramatic Theatre 268, 284–5
Stonor, Jeanne (née Stourton) 302, 352
Stonor, Sherman (6th Baron Camoys) 288, 291, 293, 302
Stopford, Richmond 151
Stoppard, Tom 405
Strachey, Oliver 150
Stratford, Philip 417
Strauss, Eric 15, 195–6, 202, 263, 329
Stroessner, Alfredo 399, 400, 402, 406, 448
Subotica, border crossing at 64
Sun Yat Sen 207
Sunday Express 272, 499
Sunday Telegraph 351, 353, 360, 388
Sunday Times 236, 239–40, 242, 247, 261–2, 264–5, 272, 361, 475
Sutro, Gillian xv, 233, 274–6, 303, 320, 368
Sutro, John 233, 272, 273, 274–5, 303, 330, 350, 368, 372
Suzman, Helen 420
Svanström, Ragnar 266, 267, 284
Sweden 73, 228–9, 266, 267–8, 284–5, 295–6
Swinnerton, Frank 58
Switzerland 416, 457, 474, 504; GG and Yvonne move to (1990) 505–6
Sykes, Christopher 417
Tabasco (Mexico) 33, 117, 118–20, 129–30
The Tablet 247, 434
Tagle, Ernesto Gomez 117, 123
Tagore, Rabindranath 400
Tahiti 326
Tal, General Israel 388–9
Tallinn 78–9, 277, 329
Taylor, Elizabeth 374, 378, 379
Teignmouth, Lord 48
Temple, Shirley 102–3, 123, 124, 137, 273
Teresa, Mother 389
Texas 273–4
Thatcher, Margaret 165
Thé, Trinh Minh 222, 258, 259
The Times 36, 46–7, 52–3, 55, 65, 66, 82, 92, 153
Theatrecraft Limited 166
Thomas Tilling Ltd 338–9
Thompson, Francis, ‘The Hound of Heaven’ 130
Thompson, G. H. 83
Thorndike, Dame Sybil 281, 282
Thriplow (Cambridgeshire) 191, 230, 458–9
Thurmond, Strom 445
Time magazine 213, 226
Times Literary Supplement 41
Tito, Josip Broz 234
Tomic, Radomiro 411
Tontons Macoutes 253, 354, 356–7, 358, 359, 360, 362–3, 364, 370, 373
Topolski, Feliks 101
Torres, Camilo 401, 405
Torrijos, Omar 437–9, 440–1, 450–1, 467, 469; GG’s friendship with 88, 426–7, 442–9, 452, 455, 462, 465, 466, 470–1, 473, 477–8; self-destructive nature of 442–3, 470–1; Getting to Know the General 446, 473, 477, 483–4; treaty signing in Washington (1977) 447–9; and Belize 453–4, 455; and hostages in El Salvador 462, 463; death of (1981) 470–1, 477–8, 486
Toussaint L’Ouverture 253
Toynbee, Philip 335
Tran Van Huu 259
Tran Van Soai 257–8
Tran Van Van 259
Trevor, William 435
Trollope, Anthony
116, 120
Trollope, George 4, 42–3, 44, 45
Trotsky, Leon 115
Trudeau, Margaret 376
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott 376
Truffaut, François, La Nuit américaine 415
Trujillo, Rafael 356, 364, 478
Trump, Donald xiii
Turner, G. D. 70–1, 127
Turner, Vincent 169, 192
Turnier, Charles 355
Tutin, Dorothy 229
Ukraine, Holodomor in 63, 65
Ulmanis, Kārlis 78
Unamuno, Miguel de 431, 433
United African Company 320
United Nations (UN) 420, 467
United States: foreign policy xii–xiii, xvi, 382, 399–400, 409, 411, 436–8, 442, 444–9, 463–4, 465; GG’s anti-Americanism xii–xiii, xvi, 115, 349–50, 374, 382, 384, 412, 478, 486; Cold War mentality xii, 205, 222, 226; GG’s tangles with immigration authorities 29, 224, 254–5; rubber production in Africa 81, 88; GG in (early 1938) 114–15; Brighton Rock as success in 124; The Power and the Glory as success in 130–1; GG in California for The Third Man 184; and French claim to Vietnam 204, 205, 206, 214, 216, 242; increased involvement in Vietnam 221–2, 242, 258–9; McCarran Act (1950) 224, 225, 254–5; black ops in Indochina 269; and Cuba 294, 298; truck break-down in Utah (1960) 327; and Duvalier’s Haiti 354–5, 357, 378, 379; and Dominican Republic coup (1965) 365; and ‘Operation Condor’ 399–400; backs coup in Chile (1973) 409; and Panama 436–7, 438, 439, 442, 444–6, 447–9, 471, 504–5; and El Salvador 463–4, 465, 504; invasion of Panama (1989) 504–5
Updegraff, Allan 77
Urquhart, F. F. ‘Sligger’ 22
Vallejo, René 376
Valli, Alida 185, 233–4
Van Molle, Paul 314
Vance, Cyrus 445
Vandenberghe, Roger 221
Vanderslaghmolen, Père Hendrik 314, 315
Vansittart, Sir Robert 98–9
Vanunu, Mordechai 390–1
Velarde, Fabian 440
Venice 233–4
Ventura, Esteban 279, 299
Verdant (holding company) 330, 331, 332, 333
Verschoyle, Derek 68, 134
Vevey (Switzerland) 416, 504, 506
Vicentín, Francisco 407
Vidal, Gore 491
Videla, Jorge Rafael 448
Vienna 179–81, 184
Viet Minh 204–5, 214, 215, 216, 241, 242–6, 256, 260
Vietnam: French colonial forces in xi–xii, 33, 204–5, 206–8, 214–16, 218–21, 222, 241–6, 247, 257–8; GG’s trips to xi–xii, 205–8, 213, 214–15, 216–23, 241–7, 257–62; Phat Diem xi–xii, 207–8, 216, 220–1, 226, 244, 245, 257, 389; Catholicism in xi, 207, 208, 214, 215–16, 221–2, 226, 241, 244–5, 256–7, 258–9, 261; ‘strategic hamlets’ used in 200; Haiphong 204, 206, 218, 223, 260–1; Battle of Route Coloniale 4 (1950) 205; enclave of Bui-Chu 207, 214, 241, 244–5, 257; UMDCs in 207; Sûreté Fédérale in 216, 219, 242; GG dive-bombs in B-26 plane 218–19; American Economic Mission 221–2, 242; GG’s brush with land mine 241, 244; Thui-nhai (fortified village) 241, 244–5; Dien Bien Phu 243–4, 246, 247, 256; Geneva Accords (1954) 243, 256, 257; division at the 17th parallel 256; ‘Northern Migration’ 256, 257; coup d’état (1963) 257; Binh Xuyen (criminal gang) 259; Francis Greene reports from (1967–8) 391–2; GG’s view on American policy 393; see also The Quiet American (1955)
The Unquiet Englishman Page 72
