Irrepressible (56 page)

abortion

Abzug, Bella

Ackerberg, Peter

acting

activism: antiauthoritariananti-HUAC Committeeby Barbara Kahn Berkeley Co-Op for civil rights, as subversive by the CRC during Debo’s visit Decca as “muckraker,”, ;
A Fine Old Conflict
on “Free Huey” campaign Greensboro lunch counter sit-in against housing segregation introductions via pee-in against police brutality SNC Vietnam War.
See
Vietnam War protests; for Willie McGee youth
see also
cause parties; labor activism

A Fine Old Conflict
(Mitford)

After Long Silence
(Straight)

Alabama National Guard

Albert, Stew

Albion College

Alcatraz guard unionization

Alexander, Hursel

Alexandria

Allen, Woody

Alvarez, A.

America: Decca as citizen of Decca’s fondness for Esmond on first impressions of friendliness in playing to snobbery in shopping in social customs socialism as anti- train ride across wartime regulations in

The American Way of Birth
(Mitford): Decca on Dinky’s birth in midwifery obstetric industry abuse source material writing of

The American Way of Death
(Mitford): byline Decca on cremation difficulty publishing embalming floral industry funeral industry attacks goal of idea to write industry changes from marketing ideas publication of success of updating

Anderson, Judith

Angelou, Maya

antifascism: Decca’s support for Decca writes on of Esmond as fueled in Bob growing commitment to at Harvard May Day 1938 protests

anti-Semitism: fears, for independent Hungary of the
Kristallnacht
of Muv U.S.

Aptheker, Bettina

Arens, Richard

Arensberg, Walter

assimilation

Auden, W. H.

Baker, Josephine

Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

Barlow, Andrew and Yvonne

Battle of Britain

Battle of City Hall

Battle of Stalingrad

Bay Area Funeral Society

Bayonne, France

Belfrage, Cedric

Bellagio

Benjy.
See
Treuhaft, Benjamin (Benjy)

Bensonhurst

Berkeley Co-Op

Bermondsey Labour Party

Bernstein, Al

Bernstein, Carl

Bernstein, Leonard and Felicia

Bernstein, Sylvia

Betts, Mrs.

Bilbao

Black, Hugo

Black, Josephine

Black Friday

Black Panthers: Bob’s legal defense of Decca’s support for Hampton, Fred Newton, Huey P. Seale as chairman of

Blor, Nanny

Boadilla
(Romilly)

Bob.
See
Treuhaft, Robert “Bob”

Borme-les-Mimosas

Boston

Boyle, Kay

Boynton, Robert

The Bracelet to Julia
(Herrick)

Bridges, Harry

British Embassy

British Royal Air Force

British Union of Fascists

Browder, Earl

Brown, Archie

Buckley, William F.

Bundles for Britain

Caen, Herb

camping

Canadian Air Force

Canwell, Albert

“Can You Afford to Die?” (Tunley)

capitalism

cartoons, political

Cavendish, Andrew

Cavendish, Deborah.
See
Mitford (Cavendish), Deborah (Dowager Duchess of Devonshire)

Cerf, Bennett

Chamberlain, Prime Minister Neville

Chancery Court

Charles, Victor

Chatsworth

Chicago Eight

childhood: aristocratic dissatisfaction with home life frustrated intellectualism Inch Kenneth reminders of morbid curiosity nostalgia for; in a teeming household

Chizzoli family

Churchill, Winston: becomes Prime Minister; Dinky petitions; invoked as aid to travel restriction; meets Decca about Esmond’s death; open letter to; as political philosopher; radio addresses; Romilly as nephew of

citizenship application

Civil Rights Congress (CRC): in Berkeley; Decca’s work for; end of; HUAC subpoenas Decca over; struggles of; Willie McGee case

civil rights movement: Berkeley activism; Bob’s legal defense of; debate over allies; First Baptist Church riots; Freedom Rides; Greensboro lunch counter sit-in; journalism on; McGee’s statement about; Willie McGee case

class issues: aristocratic vocabulary; Bob’s exposure to Mitford lifestyle; Decca’s aristocratic backdoor; gap between Debo and Decca; ignorance of public utilities; in Julia’s upbringing; in public wards

Cleaver, Eldridge

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Coakley, J. Frank: vs. Bob Treuhaft; Decca’s dislike of; indicts Oakland Seven; Newson case

Cockburn, Alexander

Cockburn, Claud

Codornices Village

Coe, John

COINTELPRO

Cold War: domestic politics; ideological basis; spies; tensions; Truman Loyalty Order

Collins, Lucretia

Columbia Hospital

communal living: for child-care help; within the Communist Party

Communist International (Comintern)

Communist Party, England: decision not to join; Esmond advocates for; headquarters; writers

Communist Party USA: activism by; agenda at meetings; Bob joins; Bob Treuhaft on; civil rights for members; CRC defends members; Decca joins; Decca on reasons for joining; Decca’s promotion within; Decca’s subpoena regarding; donation of inheritance to; Dubinsky’s dislike for; Ethel and Julius Rosenberg as members; vs. fascist ideology; FBI trail Decca in; friends in; goes underground HUAC hearings; interest in, misunderstood; journalists within; leadership changes; McCarthy era persecution; membership for government workers; national conference; psychological requirements; publicizing membership in; social perceptions of; Supreme Court overturns convictions for; sympathizers in Petaluma; travel restriction; Treuhafts leave U.S. citizenship requirement; U.S. war on; West Coast; Women’s Commission

Communist Political Association

Congressional Dies Committee

Congress of Industrial Organizations

Congress of Racial Equality’s (CORE) Freedom Rides

Connor, Bull

conspiracy laws

Corsica

Cox, Donald

Crane, Mrs. Murray

Craven A cigarettes

Crawford, Nebby Lou

cremation

Cuba

Cummings, e. e.

Daughters and Rebels
(Mitford).
See Hons and Rebels
(Mitford)

death, of Decca

Deborah.
See
Mitford Cavendish, Deborah (Dowager Duchess of Devonshire)

Debussy, Claude

debutante season

Decca and the Dectones

Degnan, James P.

de la Mora, Constancia

deLappe, Pele: as artist; Berkeley Hills move; bio of; childhood; on Decca;
Hons
cover design; on jealousy; on Nicky’s funeral; romance with Randall; on the Rosenberg execution; son as schizophrenic; as a teacher; writing committee member; “Vicky Says” column

Democratic National Convention

Dempsey, Jack

Dennis, Eugene

Depression, Great

Devonshire, Duke of

DeWitt, Addison

Diana.
See
Mitford (Mosley), Diana

Dicks, Laura

Dies Jr., Martin

Dinky.
See
Romilly, Constancia “Dinky”

Dobby (Doris Brin Marasse Walker): arrest of; citizenship application aid; in the Communist Party; on Decca’s independence; law firm work; meets Decca; at Nicky’s funeral

Donahue

Don’t Tell Alfred
(Nancy Mitford)

Draheim, Sue

drinking: accidents and illness from; Decca on her; drunken actions; at the Happy Valley Bar; as infamous; with Kay Meyer; to mourn Julia; after Nicky’s death; per-day consumption; pre-interview; stopping; writing and

drugs: Decca’s view of; Kesey, Ken; prison trials

Drummonds account

Dubinsky, David

DuBois, W. E. B.

DuClos, Jacques

Duncan, Isadora

Durr, Ann

Durr, Clifford

Durr, Lucy

Durr, Tilla

Durr, Virginia: baby Dinky stays with; meets Bob Treuhaft; on the Cold War; Decca lives with; Decca loans money to; on Esmond’s death; family parties; friendship with Decca; on Joe Gelders; on McCarthy; meets Decca; at the Montgomery riots

Eden, Anthony

Edgware

Edises, Bert

education: from brother Tom; Communist; by Decca; of Decca by Washington; Decca’s lack of formal; false college degree; Highlander Folk School in Tennessee; home schooling; of Pele deLappe; self-taught cultural

Edwards, Catherine “Katie,”

Edward VIII

Einstein, Albert

England: Bermondsey Labour Party; Decca’s reputation in; downplays German aggression; mid-1930s politics; stationing with Esmond; Treuhaft family trip to wartime rationing

Engstrom, Eleanor

Ephron, Nora

Esmond.
See
Romilly, Esmond

Faces of Philip
(Mitford)

family politics, Mitford: barred from Muv in California; Decca and Diana avoid; Decca on; Decca’s public break with; as limiting travel; schisms resulting from; Tom as supposed fascist; youthful

family relationships, Mitford: Decca and Debo; Decca and Nancy; Decca and Unity; Decca’s inheritance donation strains; at family reunion; lifestyle gaps; Nancy and Decca write on; with Nanny Blor; politics as marring; rare honesty in; and Romilly; scrapbook flap; sibling games; sisters’ personalities; tenderness in; Tom as only son; after Unity’s suicide attempt; untangling inherited mores

Famous Writers School

Farrer, Joan

fascism: vs. Communism; Decca’s fight against; of Mitford family, Decca on; Muv’s support for; of sister Diana; Tom as rumored ally to; of Unity

Faulkner, William

Farve.
See
Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale)

FBI: Communist Party scrutiny; HUAC partnership; Hoover as director of; response to potential probes; shoots Fred Hampton

FBI file, on Decca:
The American Way of Death
period; decision to continue; extent of; formation of; funeral research; meeting a creator of; Montgomery riots in; on petition to travel; relationship to Farve in;
SF Chronicle
firing for; on Vietnam protest

Federal Workers Union

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Fifth, pleading the

fingerprinting

First Baptist Church, Montgomery

Fles, Barthold

Flor D’Italia

Fonda, Jane

Forest Lawn Cemetery

Forman, Chaka Esmond Fanon

Forman, James

Forman, James Robert Lumumba

Foster, William Z.

Foundry Methodist Church

Franco, General

Frantz, Laurent

Franz, Marge Gelders: on
A Fine Old Conflict
; on Bob; on Decca’s drinking; early-life bio; at HUAC hearings; on
Lifeitselfmanship
; moves West; on Nancy; Oakland Seven trial; in writing committee

Freedom Riders

Free French government

“Free Huey” campaign

Freeman-Mitford, David,
See
Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale)

Free Speech Movement

Fresno

Frieden, Evie

friends: African American; Angelou, Maya; deLappe, Pele; Dobby Walker; Durr, Virginia; in England; Frantz, Marge Gelders; Kahn, Barbara; Meyer, Kay; Straight, Binnie; Toynbee, Philip; at the Treuhaft parties; writer

Friends Apart
(Toynbee)

fuel conservation

fund-raising: for Bob’s DA campaign; creative ideas; organized in 1953; Panther Defense Fund;
People’s Daily World
party; for the
SF Chronicle
; for
Tom Mooney Memorial California Labor

School

funeral, of Decca

funeral co-ops: Decca as advocate of; handling of union deaths

Funeral Directors of San Francisco

funeral industry: vs.
The American Way of Death
; capitalism of; changes to; invites Decca to a convention; “Mitford” coffins; ongoing investigation of; Tunley researches

Fursland, Anthea

Gach, Frederick and Anna

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Gallup

gambling: by Albin Treuhaft; with Donahue in NY; of Esmond; job offered to Decca; at SF parties

Garment Workers Union

Garroway, Dave

Garry, Charles

Garry, Thomas D.

Gary, Borece

Gary, Constance

Gary, Wilbur

Gary family

Gelders, Joe

Gelders, Marge.
See
Franz, Marge Gelders

Genet, Jean

Germany: Bob Treuhaft’s visit to;
Kristallnacht
; rising military aggression;
see also
Hitler, Adolf