Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica (48 page)

58
:  ‘make our Colonies in the Caribbean good examples …’, Fraser,
Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism,
74.

58
:  ‘We want bread!’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

58
:  ‘I shall never forget the rich people …’, Edna Manley Diary, 28 December 1944,23.

59
:  ‘had caused more harm than good …’, Roberts,
Jamaica: the Portrait of an Island,
245.

59
:  ‘must have been sent out by the Colonial Office …’,
Public Opinion,
8 March 1944.

1948: Lady Rothermere

61
:  ‘Bond knew that he was very close to being in love with her.’,
DF,
(Vintage ed. 2012), 249.

61
:  ‘They’d just had the mother and father of all rows ...’, Lycett, 176.

61
:  ‘I loved being whipped by you …’, Lycett, 179,

63
:  ‘at typical tropical sunset hour.’, Ann Diary fragment, Amory, 60.

64
:  ‘Ian always complained that flowers gave him headaches …’, Pearson, 165.

65
:  ‘used to leave in a small boat to fish …’, Vickers, ed.
Cocktails and Laughter, 99.

66
:  ‘determined assaults on her virtue.’,
MR,
(Penguin Omnibus ed. 2003), 326–7.

66
:  ‘strangely uncomfortable.’, Vickers, ed.
Cocktails and Laughter,
99.

67
:  ‘If you burden yourself with the big-town malaises ...’, Pearson, 172.

67
:  ‘I did love it all…’, AF to IF, February 1948, Amory, 68.

67
:  ‘a sort of Beau Brummel of the islands.’, 65.

68
:  ‘whirling and snapping in the water …’,
LLD,
290.

68
:  ‘terrible snuffling grunt…’,
LLD,
260.

68
:  ‘a horrible grunting scrunch’,
LLD,
313.

68
:  ‘tied up good and firm …’, Pearson, 176.

68
:  ‘I do hope the remoteness of Goldeneye …’, AF to IF, February 1948, Amory, 65.

68
:  ‘It would be an interesting feat to be faithful…’, AF to IF, 13 February 1948, Amory, 66.

68
:  ‘steadfast as a rock’, Lycett, 182.

69
:  ‘might serve as a model for new houses in the tropics ...’, Leigh Fermor,
The Traveller’s Tree,
360.

70
:  ‘extraordinary book’,
LLD,
158.

70
:  ‘Commander Fleming Gives Modest…’,
Gleaner,
6 March 1948.

70
:  ‘accepting her duties cheerfully.’, AF to EW, 15 July 1948, Amory, 69.

70
:  ‘The spell was cast and held …’, Hoare,
Noël Coward,
342.

71
:  ‘It is quite perfect…’, Payn & Morley ed.,
NC Diary,
24 March 1948, 107.

72
:  ‘Behind the house are banana plantations …’, Day ed.,
NC Letters,
540.

72
:  ‘and all sorts of tropical deliciousness.’,
NC Letters,
546.

72
:  ‘I am now a property owner in Jamaica …’,
NC Diary,
25 April 1948, 108.

72
:  ‘grown over with orchids’,
NC Letters,
546.

72
:  ‘Somebody’s suddenly gone and bought that ghastly Blue Harbour hotel.’, SS, 33.

73
:  ‘as if he were a distinguished member of the opposite sex …’, Quennell quoted in Hoare,
Noël Coward,
388.

72
:  ‘was always subtly understanding …’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
151.

74
:  ‘a bloody good thing but far too late.’,
NC Diary,
30 January 1948, 103.

74
:  ‘taxation, controls and certain features …’, Fleming, ‘If I Were Prime Minister’,
Spectator,
9 October 1959.

74
:  ‘an irrelevant survival…’, Morley,
The Private Lives of Noël and Gertie,
270.

74
:  ‘a reaffirmation of Britain’s continued great-power status …’, Cannadine,
Churchill’s Shadow,
280–1.

74
:  ‘a one-man Suez task force.’, Durgnat,
A Mirror for England,
153.

74
:  ‘benevolent to the point of indifference’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
161–2.

75
:  ‘My darling, there was morphia and pain …’: AF to IF, undated 1948, Amory, 70

75
:  ‘making a fuss of her …’, AF to IF, undated 1948, Amory, 71.

1949: Noël and Ian, Samolo and Jamaica

77
:  ‘Empire, family life and the Conservative Party’, Lycett, 192.

77
:  ‘The house is entrancing …’,
NC Diary,
3 February 1949,123.

77
:  ‘As you glide down this river …’, Flynn,
Wicked Ways,
333.

78
:  ‘Strong Bak Soup’,
Sunday Times,
9 January 1955.

78
:  ‘enchantingly languid …’, Ibid.

78
:  ‘and was vastly entertaining all the way.’,
NC diary,
20 February 1949,124.

78
:  ‘scandal with a local Bustamante …’,
NC Diary,
6 April 1949, 125.

79
:  ‘a personality like a battering ram.’, Coward,
P&C,
78.

79
:  ‘They sing from morning till night…’, Coward, ‘South Sea Bubble’,
Play Parade,
vi, 117.

79
:  ‘industrious and enthusiastic, but…’,
P&C, 26.

79
:  ‘nip a breadfruit off a tree …’, Coward, ‘South Sea Bubble’,
Play Parade
vi,. 129.

80
:  ‘With that race, that place, that title …’, Barringer,
Art and the British Empire,
183.

80
:  ‘There is a great deal of sex ...’,
P&C,
16.

80
:  ‘shopping for silk pyjamas.’, Huggins, 42.

80
:  ‘most amusing rhyme about my second daughter, Cherry.’, Huggins, 89.

80
:  ‘happy and contented under British rule for so many years …’, Coward, ‘South Sea Bubble’,
Play Parade
vi, 117.

81
:  ‘After the last war British imperialism was too weak …’,
Public Opinion,
28 January 1950.

81
:  ‘old fashioned Noël Coward …’, Lesley,
The Life of Noël Coward,
287.

81
:  ‘Tourism has brought the island undreamed of prosperity …’,
P&C,
44.

81
:  ‘This coast is being bought up like mad’,
NC Letters,
546.

81
:  ‘rash of millionaire hotels’,
DN,
236.

81
:  ‘the wealthier members of the plantocracy …’,
P&C,
51.

82
:  ‘undoubtedly the most fashionable resort…’, Chapman,
Pleasure Island,
158.

82
:  ‘In a cool elevation overlooking the sea’, advertisement in
West Indian Review,
September 1950.

82
:  ‘on top of the cliff, with a breath-taking view of the Caribbean …’, Chapman,
Pleasure Island,
152–3.

82
:  ‘of England’s powerful Kemsley Press’, Chapman,
Pleasure Island,
138.

82
:  ‘Mr E., being Italian, has excellent manners …’, Simmons,
Sunspots,
48.

84
:  ‘Costing a quarter of a million pounds …’, Issa,
MrJamaica,
92.

84
:  ‘In 1951, Jamaica played host to nearly 100,000 visitors …’, Taylor,
To Hell with Paradise,
160.

85
:  ‘twin-dieseled Chriscraft motorboat’,
SS,
41.

86
:  ‘naked on Noël’s …’, Hoare,
Noël Coward,
399.

86
:  ‘Cargill himself complains he lost his girlfriend …’, Cargill,
Jamaica Farewell,
57.

86
:  ‘By day you idle on a beach …’, Waugh,
Notes from the Sugar Islands,
203.

86
:  ‘The atmosphere is a compound of Wall Street …’, Leigh Fermor,
The Traveller’s Tree,
362.

86
:  ‘Quite quite horrid …’,
NC Letters,
543.

87
:  ‘an epidemic of homosexuality’,
Public Opinion,
28 May 1938.

87
:  ‘there is hardly a lissom chambermaid …’,
P&C, 52.

87
:  ‘evil example … sybaritic torpor …’, Taylor,
To Hell with Paradise,
195–6.

87
:  ‘The labourers will not work for economical wages …’, ‘Jamaica the Beautiful’, Dr. Josiah Oldfield,
Spotlight,
August 1950, 6.

88
:  ‘a colour bar that is non-existent in law …’, Leigh Fermor,
The Traveller’s Tree,
345.

88
:  ‘That’s how we keep out the niggers …’, Morris Cargill interview filmed for Oracabessa oral history project, 1997.

88
:  ‘in some barred by means of adroit subterfuges.’, Roberts,
Jamaica: the Portrait of an Island,
188

89
:  ‘Call the police. Call the army …’, quoted in Thompson,
An Eyefor the Tropics,
204.

89
:  ‘Tourists were people with money …’, Douglas Waite interview, 21 June 2013.

89
:  ‘We saw water, electricity, motor cars ...’, Ramsay Dacosta interview, 3 July 2012.

89
:  ‘with homes of their own …’,
Gleaner,
24 June 1949.

90
:  ‘in a blaze of Jamaican publicity …’, NC
Letters,
546.

91
:  ‘spends all his time doing underwater fishing …’,
P&C,
59.

91
:  ‘bleak, overmasculine barrack’,
P&C,
119.

91
–
2
: ‘find himself caught up in an over-social marriage
…’,P&C,
172.

92
:  ‘I’ve funked everything these last few days …’, IF to AF, 20 February 1949, Amory, 77–9.

92
:  ‘I have doubts about their happiness …’,
NC Letters,
10 July 1949,130.

1950: Doctor Jamaica

93
:  ‘Up to forty, girls cost nothing …’,
DF,
270–1

93
:  ‘the most healthy life I could wish to live.’,
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica,
12.

95
:  ‘On with your Aqua Lung…’,
P&C,
214.

95
:  ‘If Noël has a problem …’, Elaine Stritch to NC, 6 August 1963,
NC Letters,
682.

95
:  ‘Everything is unbelievably lovely.’,
NC Diary,
15 December 1949, 137.

95
:  ‘It has been a lovely holiday …’,
NC Diary,
22 April 1952,191.

95
:  ‘this place has a strange and very potent magic for me …’,
NC Letters,
674.

96
:  ‘healing, beneficial and inspiring.’, AF to HC, 1 February 1952, Amory, 105.

96
:  ‘Here there is peace and that wonderful vacuum …’, IF to AF, 20 January 1958, Amory, 213.

96
:  ‘I suppose it is the peace and silence …’,
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica,
12.

96
:  ‘Always took life strangely hard, except in Jamaica.’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
154.

97
:  ‘Fleming is at his mellow best.’, Harling,
Vogue.

97
:  ‘very charming, attractive character …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

97
:  ‘the parasites will have him within a day or two.’, Lycett, 198.

97
:  ‘The gold and black tiger’s eye was on him …’,
TB,
(Vintage ed. 2012), 237.

98
:  ‘It is easy to enjoy the orchids and the hummingbirds …’, Fleming, ‘Pleasure Islands?’,
Spectator,
4 July 1952.

98
:  ‘I am still grateful for the gentle ministrations …’, Olivier,
Confessions of an Actor,
185.

98
:  ‘Do you know that when you said that to me …’, AF to IF, February 1950, Amory, 79.

98
:  ‘stressed-concrete jungle’,
LLD,
144.

99
:  ‘such matters as radio and weapons …’,
RWL,
37.

99
:  ‘of ‘excellent’ ‘manufacture’,
RWL,
20.

99
:  ‘their total unpreparedness to rule the world …’, Lycett, 164.

99
:  ‘continual homeopathic doses of Anti-Americanism.’, Introduction to
Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker,
(Penguin ed., 2003), xii.

100
:  ‘biggest business, bigger than steel…’,
DF,
25.

100
:  ‘after washing the filth …’,
TC,
108.

100
:  ‘ghastly’,
DF,
178.

100
:  ‘the hysterical pursuit of money’,
TC,
133.

100
:  ‘one of the grimmest suburbs …’,
TC,
120.

100
:  ‘society that fails to establish …’,
TC,
97.

100
:  ‘It’s your territory.’,
LLD,
166.

100
:  ‘because the place is British territory.’,
DN,
235.

100
:  ‘Bond was glad to be on his way …’,
LLD,
262.

100
:  You see, it belongs to an American now …’,
LLD,
268.

100
–
101
: ‘a trace of an American accent’,
DN,
338.

101
:  ‘millionaires in beach clothes’,
P&C,
76.

101
:  ‘islands of the West Indies … ‘, Willis J. Abbot,
Panama and the Canal,
(Syndicate Publishing Company, London, 1913), 15.

102
:  ‘The American invasion’, Huggins, 56.

103
:  ‘were equaled only in the most sociologically retarded …’, Thompson,
An Eye for the Tropics,
238–9.

103
:  ‘threatened the undoing of the British Empire.’,
Spotlight,
December 1953.

104
:  ‘the delegation made it plain …’,
Fraser, Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism,
113.

104
:  ‘I was in New York …’,
Gleaner,
3 August 1948.

105
:  ‘Jamaica has the largest bauxite deposits …’,
Spectator,
4 July 1952.