Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica (52 page)

227
:  ‘would be an excellent labour boss and general fixer’, Lycett, 297.

227
:  ‘
Dr No
was very cardboardy and need not have been … ‘, Chancellor,
James Bond: the Man and his World,
111.

228
:  ‘something easy to start with …’,
DN,
221.

228
:  ‘was welcomed with deference because his reservation …’,
DN,
241.

229
:  ‘the setting sun flashed gold on the bright worms of tumbling rivers …’,
DN,
236.

229
:  ‘smelled the dung of the mule train ...’,
DN,
267.

229
:  ‘melancholy of the tropical dusk.’,
DN,
271.

229
:  ‘The Riders were one of the old Jamaica families ...’,
DN,
303.

230
:  ‘She had no inhibitions …’,
DN,
402.

230
:  ‘protecting the security of the British Empire’,
DF,
88.

230
:  ‘its Kensington Palace Gardens, its Avenue D’Iéna …’,
DN,
211.

231
:  the steward is ‘coloured.’,
DN,
213.

231
:  ‘well run, well staffed ...’,
DN,
212.

232
:  ‘Unfortunately, strict patterns of behavior can be deadly …’,
DN,
214.

232
:  ‘would not have been incongruous in Kingston …’,
DN,
213.

232
:  ‘Splendid show. What a lark!’,
DN,
252–3.

233
:  ‘Bond grinned at him. This was more like it…’,
DN,
253.

233
:  the immigration official is ‘Negro’,
DN,
237.

233
:  ‘delves well below the surface …’,
DN,
257.

234
:  ‘an inappropriate wing collar and spotted bow tie’,
DN,
250.

234
:  ‘sex and machete fights’,
DN,
230.

234
:  ‘There were plenty of other worries …’,
DN,
231.

235
:  ‘slim funds of the Secret Service’,
DN,
235.

235
:  trying for years to get the Treasury …’,
DN,
234.

235
:  ‘Nowadays, softness was everywhere.’,
DN,
222.

236
:  ‘scathing about Liberia … The first Negro State …’,
DS,
104.

236
:  ‘drift, weak local government…’,
DS,
106.

236
:  ‘unimpressed by relics from the Edwardian era …’,
DN,
395.

1958–60:
Goldfinger
;
For Your Eyes Only
;
Thunderball

238
:  ‘The man from the Central Intelligence Agency …’,
TB,
168.

239
:  ‘tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale.’,
TLS,
12 April 1957.

239
:  ‘Peter Cheyney for the carriage trade’, Chancellor,
James Bond: the Man and his World,
43.

239
:  ‘In hard covers my books are written for …’, Pearson, 355.

240
:  ‘Fleming rarely rises above the glossy prose …’,
The Twentieth Century,
March 1958.

240
:  ‘Sex, Snobbery and Sadism’,
New Statesman,
5 April 1958.

240
:  ‘flick-knife remarks’, Harling,
Vogue.

241
:  ‘At that party I felt it was a whole lot of children …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 13 March 2012.

241
:  ‘Ian is a subtle bitch …’, Lycett, 314—15.

241
:  ‘One of the great sadnesses is the failure to make someone happy.’, Lycett, 323.

241
:  ‘arrived in a tempest… ‘, IF to AF, January 1958, Amory, 211–12.

242
:  ‘I used to come down to swim at twelve o’clock …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 17 April 2013.

242
:  ‘She was really in love with Ian Fleming ...’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

242
:  ‘I’m terribly worried about your health ...’, IF to AF, 20 January 1958, Amory, 213.

243
:  ‘a floating, boozy bum’, David Niven,
Bring on the Empty Horses,
(Hamish Hamilton, London, 1975), 123.

243
:  ‘even with his forked tongue sticking right through his cheek …’,
Observer,
22 March 1959.

243
:  ‘the foundation of our international credit’,
GF,
(Penguin omnibus ed. 2002), 451.

244
:  ‘the cruellest, most ruthless people in the world.’,
GF,
512.

244
:  ‘It was modern piracy …’,
GF,
590.

244
:  ‘Who in America cared …’,
GF,
610.

245
:  an annual growth rate of eight per cent., Wallace,
The British Caribbean,
129–30.

245
:  Manley was forced to admit that the rich had got richer, but the poor poorer., Sewell,
Culture and Decolonization,
116.

246
:  ‘(1) To impress the United Nations …’, Fraser,
Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism,
140–1.

246
:  ‘As colonial ties with Britain are loosened …’,
Portsmouth Herald,
1 May 1958.

247
:  ‘a bird-brain. His attention span was about ten seconds.’, Cargill
,Jamaica Farewell,
160.

247
:  ‘In the Commonwealth and Empire …’, David Killingray ed.,
The West Indies (British Documents on the End of Empire),
(The Stationery Office, London, 1999), 210.

247
:  ‘Having visited Jamaica for twelve years …’, Lycett, 319.

247
:  ‘flotsam and jetsam of our receding empire’, Lycett, 335.

248
:  ‘Communists creeping in from Ceylon …’, SS, 148.

248
:  ‘underwater ace’, SS, 147.

248
:  ‘Champion harpoon-gun’, SS, 144.

248
:  ‘finest damned yacht in the Indian Ocean.’,
SS,
146

248
:  ‘there were only three great powers …’,
SS,
170.

249
:  ‘A trip around the world …’,
TC,
145–6.

249
:  ‘the winter visitors and the residents …’,
SS,
77.

249
:  ‘filled the minor posts for thirty years …’,
SS,
79.

250
:  ‘It looks to me as if [President] Batista will be on the run soon ...’, SS, 33.

250
:  ‘the Batista people, but we’ve got a good man …’, SS, 44.

250
:  ‘He hadn’t wanted to do the job …’, SS, 78.

251
:  riddled with ‘criminality.’, TC, 97.

251
:  ‘protecting the security of the British empire’,
DF,
88.

251
:  ‘If foreign gangsters find they can get away with this kind of thing … ‘, SS, 47

251
:  ‘They had declared and waged war …’: SS, 69

251
:  ‘wild and rather animal...’:
SS,
62–7

251
:  ‘She was a very lovely woman ...’, Blanche Blackwell interview, l6 February 2012.

251
:  ‘she didn’t make the smallest attempt ...’,
SS,
88–9.

252
:  ‘When all kindness has gone …’, SS, 92–3.

252
:  ‘It’s extraordinary how much people can hurt each other …’,
SS,
98.

252
:  ‘snatch what we can’, Lycett, 337.

252
:  ‘It’s tragic, nevertheless, that she should have cast a shadow …’, Lycett, 345.

253
:  ‘Men suffer from not knowing …’, Amory, 395.

254
:  ‘I’m not the mother type …’, “Volcano’, 2:1:2.

254
:  ‘a very obstreperous child, grossly pampered.’, Amory, 158.

254
:  ‘I am nauseated by his bad manners …’, IF to AF, undated, Amory, 296.

254
:  ‘wizened, and gossipy …’,
Gielgud’s Letters,
ed. Richard Mangan, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004), 258.

254
:  ‘We have endured six days of rain and gales …’, EF to A
W,
26 January 1960, Amory, 249.

255
:  ‘Not at all nice there,’, AF to EW, 26 March 1960, Amory, 252.

255
–
256
:  ‘The gold’s out of Goldeneye …’, Lycett, 364.

256
:  ‘The Special Executive for Counterintelligence …’,
TB,
69.

256
:  ‘with the Cold War wearing off…’,
TB,
91.

257
:  ‘Peace [is] bustin’ out all over.’,
TB,
209.

257
:  ‘independent operator’ in the spy ‘game’,
TC,
173.

257
:  ‘terrified by the whole business …’,
TB,
296.

258
:  ‘The two big poker players …’,
Gleaner,
10 February 1963.

258
:  Planes with atom bombs don’t get stolen …’,
TB,
178.

258
:  mixed race, born of a Polish father and Greek mother.,
TB,
61.

259
:  ‘an adventurer, a predator on the herd …’,
TB,
135.

259
:  ‘a sunken galleon thickly overgrown with coral.’,
TB,
144.

259
:  ‘the haunt of every famous pirate …’,
TB,
160.

259
:  ‘that looked as if they belonged to the days of the pirates.’,
TB,
351–2.

259
:  “I asked him if he’d ever tried ganja …’,
Sunday Times
interview, 7 October 2012.

259
:  ‘He wanted me to stay and watch …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 13 March 2012.

260
:  ‘The modern spy could not permit himself…’, Dulles, ‘Our Spy-Boss Who Loved Bond’,
Life,
28 August 1966.

260
:  any one of these little sandy cays …’,
TB,
296.

261
:  in exchange for a loan of $2Om in convertible currency …,. Von Tunzelmann,
Red Heat,
187–9.

261
:  ‘If the Americans once let up
…’,MGG,
142.

261
:  ‘Shortly afterwards, the CIA agent David Atlee Phillips …’, Von Tunzelmann,
Red Heat,
207.

261
:  ‘put my people in CIA to work on this ...’, Dulles, ‘Our Spy-Boss Who Loved Bond’,
Life,
28 August 1966.

262
:  ‘obsessed by Ian’s books’, AF to CE, 16 February 1964, Amory, 336.

262
:  the President’s favourite books …, Hugh Sidey, ‘The President’s Voracious Reading Habits’,
Life,
17 March 1961.

1961–2:
The Spy Who Loved Me
;
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

263
:  ‘There were moments …’, Plomer,
Encounter.

263
:  ‘I’m the world’s authority on giving up smoking …’,
TB,
154—161.

264
:  ‘that nagging sense of morning guilt…’,
TB,
1–2.

264
:  ‘Ian had a high fever and was fearfully cross …’, AF to EW, 4 February 1961, Amory, 278

264
:  ‘Annie looking exhausted …’,
NC Diary,
29 January 1961, 463.

265
:  ‘taken against Jamaica in a big way …’,
NC Letters,
23 December 1960, 673.

265
:  ‘Jamaica’s going to go to the dogs …’, Karen Schleifer interview, 21 June 2013.

265
:  ‘Lord Brownlow imported a farm manageress …’, AF to EW, 4 February 1961, Amory, 279.

266
:  ‘from drabness, fustiness, snobbery …’,
SLM,
3.

266
:  ‘smoking and drinking, phenobarbital…’,
SLM
,67.

266
:  ‘from the grimy sallowness that had been the badge of my London life ….’,
SLM,
4.

267
:  ‘started brilliantly’,
NC Diary,
8 April 1962, 503.

267
:  ‘The single lamentable lapse …’, Bryce, 105.

267
:  ‘dreary’ chancellor…,
James Bond: the Man and his World,
187.

267
:  ‘the High-Stakes Gambling Scene …’,
Time,
13 April 1962.

267
:  ‘doing my best to reverse this foolish gesture …’, AF to EW, 20 April 1962, Amory, 306.

267
:  ‘our pornography fund.’, letter to EW, 2 August 1962, Amory, 314.

268
:  ‘I am glad to say that while the iron crab …’, Pearson, 391.

268
:  ‘the claws of “the iron crab” tightened around his heart…’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
156.

268
:  ‘losing the vices that were so much part of his ruthless …’,
TB,
45.

268
:  ‘and then, slightly drunk, go to bed …’,
MSS,
101.

269
:  ‘a super-abundancy of alcohol in the blood-stream.’,
MSS,
248.

269
:  ‘Bond was aching for a drink’,
MSS,
256.

269
:  he needs three drinks to her one.,
MSS,
327.

269
:  ‘chain-smoking’,
MSS,
45.

270
:  ‘by the far the best novel…’,
Cinema Retro
Magazine, ‘Movie Classics Special Edition’, no.4,22.

270
:  selling over 70,000 hardback copies …, Benson,
James Bond Bedside Companion,
24.

270
:  ‘It is better plotted and retains its insane grip ...’,
Observer,
31 March 1963.

270
:  ‘the 20th century vogue of realism ...’,
LA Times,
25 August 1963.

270
:  ‘the miracle of the latest German export figures’,
MSS,
323.

270
:  ‘the new African States.’,
MSS,
113.

270
:  ‘all true and it was all about a great Navy …’,
MSS, 257.

271
:  Broccoli had tried unsuccessfully for the same option … , Broccoli,
Snow Melts,
126.

272
:  ‘a ludicrous character, Fu Manchu with hooks.’, Tashchen, 31.

272
:  ‘Ian attended several of our meetings…’, Broccoli,
Snow Melts,
159.

273
:  ‘had everything we were looking for.’, Broccoli,
Snow Melts,
174.