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Office of Price Administration

Officers’ Training Corps (OTC)

Ontario

Orwell, Sonia

Out of Bounds: The Education of Giles and Esmond Romilly
(Romilly)

Oxfordshire

Pacific Internment Society

pacifism

Palewski, Gaston

Pam.
See
Mitford, Pam “Woman”

Panther Defense Fund

The Parliament of Roses to Julia
(Herrick)

passports, issuing of

Patchen, Miriam

Patterson, Governor John

Pearl Harbor bombing

People’s Daily World
: on
The American Way of Death
; Decca’s lifetime subscription; fundraising for; goes underground; Green, Buddy; Hungary article for; job application; reports on McGee in, 1731

Petaluma

Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
(Mitford)

political climate, U.S.: apathy over Japanese internment; Communism as viable party option; First Baptist Church riots; McCarthy era; McCarthy era end; Rosenberg execution; surrounding
The American Way of Death
publicity; UN formation; U.S. appeasement

politics, Decca’s: Communism; Dinky’s exposure to; “fortress mentality” to protect; HUAC subpoena for; honing understanding of U.S.; of housework; as inspiring; interest in collectivization; as “last thoughts,” ; of medical coverage; Nanny Blor as influencing; New Deal; opposing Unity; as restricting travel; as shared with Esmond; as shared with Kay; surveillance for;
see also
antifascism; Communist Party USA

Pollard, Lisa

poll tax campaign: as cause of Virginia Durr; defeat of; at the Democratic Convention; stalled

Popular Front

pornography

Potter, Stephen

Prague

pregnancies: abortion; birth of Benjy; birth of Dinky; birth of Nicky; Decca discusses with Dinky; Dinky’s; first (Julia); miscarriage of third; second to-term

Profiles in Courage
(Kennedy)

protests:
The American Way of Death
as; Berkeley student; Freedom Rides; French student; ingredients for successful; motorcade; race riots

Pryce-Jones, David

publicity: for
The American Way of Death
; among OPA workers; as attention; on birth of her second child; Clinton internship with Treuhaft; on Decca’s disinheritance; on Diana’s release; Dobby as unfazed by; fizzle of;
Grace Had an English Heart
; for her memoir; from
Lifeitselfmanship
; on passport withholding; in Rotherhithe; as a soldier’s wife; Treuhaft marriage as without; as undercurrent in her writing; Unity’s suicide attempt; as used to denounce Mosleys; used to promote civil causes

The Pursuit of Love
(Nancy Mitford)

Rabinowitz, Victor

Radical Chic
(Wolfe)

racism: of DA Coakley; Decca on Miamian; of Oakland PD; segregation

Raether, Howard C.

Raleigh, N.C.

Randall, Byron

Random House

rape, attempted

Rebel: The Short Life of Esmond Romilly
(Ingram)

“The Red Flag”

refugees: Decca takes in; Durr family takes in; Jewish, from Germany; Mitfords take in; Spanish Civil War

Reno

Rexroth, Kenneth

Richardson, Tony

Richmond, Al

Rivera, Frank

Robbins, Cynthia

Robeson, Paul

Rockefeller grant

Rodd, Peter

Rodman, Selden and Hilda

Rollingwood Improvement Association

Roma Italian Restaurant

Romilly, Constancia (Dinky): activism in Oakland; attends Decca’s HUAC hearing; Betts boys as playmates; birth of; Bob meets; on Bob’s affair; civil rights activism; at college; at death of Nicky; first son’s birth; first trip to England; helps Decca stop drinking; as housekeeper; life crisis; marriage to Terry Weber; meets her grandmother; move to NYC; naming; nursing work; relationship with Decca; relationship with Forman; second son’s birth; as a star student

Romilly, Bertram

Romilly, Esmond: on animal cruelty; Bob as compared to; death of; Decca’s first impression of; as Decca’s first love; early-life bio; fighter pilot training; gambling; Graham and Gillies work; Ingram writes on; learns of Decca’s abortion; marriage to; Miami barman job; militaristic education; military service; mood swings; Nancy’s dislike for; personality of; politics of; relationship with Giles; relationship with Straight; runs away; as a Silkform salesman; similarities with Virginia Durr;
see also
marriage, to Esmond

Romilly, Giles: looks; post-war life; as a POW; reunion with; at Wellington College; as a writer

Romilly, Julia

Romilly, Nellie: death of; Decca’s inheritance from; Decca’s relationship to; at Rotherhithe; wartime loneliness of

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rosenberg, Ethel

Rosenberg, Julius

Ross, Alan S. C.

Ross, Herbert

Rotherhithe period: adapting to family life; electrical bill; friends’ response to Julia’s death; intellectual discussions; secret family visits; theft to make ends meet

Roughton, Roger

Rubin, Jerry

running away: accounts; Decca’s need to; of Dinky, from college; of Esmond; family reaction to; to the Montgomery bus boycott; to the Spanish Civil War

Runyon, Damon

Rushdie, Salman

Russian River

Sandburg, Carl

San Francisco: apartment near Mrs. Betts; cultural scene; Decca’s enjoyment of; OPA job transfer to; train ride to; underground press

San Francisco Chronicle
: on Decca in Montgomery riots; Decca in society column; hires Decca; Kay’s work at; offers Decca a column; open letter to Winston Churchill in

San Francisco College of Mortuary Science

San Francisco Film Festival

San Francisco Funeral Directors Association

San Jose State College

Sarah Lawrence College

The Satanic Verses
(Rushdie)

Sayre, Murray

Scherr, Max

school.
See
education

Scottsboro case

Seale, Bobby

Seeger, Pete

segregation: Decca’s activism against; Freedom Rides protest; lunch counter, activism against; protesting housing; Southern champions of

Send a Piana to Havana campaign

Service Corporation International (SCI)

Sexual Freedom League

Shelton Hotel

Sigal, Clancy

Silkform stockings

Simon and Schuster

SLATE

Smith, Doug

Smith, Harold

Smith Act of 1940

smoking habit

snobbery: of American Southerners; Decca feigns; Ivy League; as trope of Decca’s writing

Sobol, Morton

social equality

socialism: attempts to mainstream U.S.; Bob defends loyalty cases; financial ideology of; in Hungary; McCarthy era investigation; reputation of U.S.;
see also
Communist Party USA

Socialist Workers Party

Society of Hons

Sonoma County

Soul on Ice
(Cleaver)

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

Soviet Union: Battle of Stalingrad; crush Hungarian uprising; display Lenin’s corpse; Gulag; Nazi invasion of; second Great Purge; Stalin as leader of; WWII alliance with

Spanish Civil War: Decca runs away to; as discussed in Corsica; Esmond as veteran of; loss of

spas

Spock, Dr. Benjamin

SS
Aurania

Stalin

Stalingrad, siege of

Stander, Lionel

Stansky, Peter

Starkie, Walter

Starobin, Joe

Starr, Kevin

Steinbeck, John

Stone, I. F.

Stop the Draft

“St. Peter, Don’t You Call Me” (Mitford)

Straight, Belinda “Binnie”: clothes budget of; on Decca’s meeting with Churchill; as friend to Decca; husband as a spy; on jiggery-pokery; offers housing to Decca

Straight, Michael

Strayer Business School

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

suffrage, women’s

Sussman, Peter

Swinbrook House

Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

Temple de la Gloire

Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.

Tenny, John B.

theft (“jiggery-pokery”): of cafeteria lunch; to make ends meet; of rich excess

Thompson, Lowell

Thurber, James

Tito

Tolkein, J. R. R.

Tom.
See
Mitford, Tom

Tomalin, Nicholas

Tom Mooney Memorial California Labor School

Toynbee, Philip: bids Romillys goodbye; death of; on Decca; Decca’s memoir of; early life politics; on editors; Esmond’s reunion with; in lecture tour idea; on the mothering of Julia; reunion with; reviews Unity Mitford book; Rotherhithe days friendship; as a writer

travel: alone, to Inch Kenneth; to Mexico; to Mississippi, for McGee activism; to Montgomery; Treuhaft family trip to England; passport restrictions; to promote memoir in England; South of France writing sojourn; by train across U.S.

Treuhaft, Albin

Treuhaft, Aranka: aids European getaway; on black maids; death of; donates to Decca’s causes; financial advice; first visit to California; Kliot’s death; marriage to Al Kliot; meets Muv; Nicky and; relationship with Decca; as single wage-earner; as Treuhaft’s mother

Treuhaft, Benjamin “Benjy”: birth of; in college; favorite snack; illness following Nicky’s death; manic depression of; marriages of; piano tuner apprenticeship; Send a Piana to Havana campaign; on Treuhaft’s view of Forman

Treuhaft, Nicholas “Nicky”: arrest of; avoiding writing about; birth of; death of; personality

Treuhaft, Robert “Bob”: biography of; as a Communist; dates Jewish girls; eligibility of; epilepsy of; flirtatiousness of; funereal activism; Gladstein work; help with
The American Way of Death
; Hillary Clinton interns for; labor activism; law firm of; meets Decca; meets the Mitfords; on Muv; vs. the Oakland PD, 194; OPA work; poetry; romance with Joanne Grant; runs for D.A.; statement to the HUAC; on Washington politics;
see also
marriage, to Bob

The Trial of Dr. Spock
(Mitford)

Tru-Lanol Arterial Fluid

Truman, Harry S.

Trumbo, Dalton

Tunley, Roul

Turner, William

Tyler, Ralph

“U and Non-U Language” (Nancy Mitford)

unionization

United Federal Workers

“United Front Against Fascism”

United Nations

Unity.
See
Mitford, Unity “Boud”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

University of California at Berkeley

U.S. Department of State

U.S. embargo, on Cuba

U.S. Justice Department

Utt, James

“Vicky Says” column

Vidal, Gore

Vietnam War protests: Chicago Eight trial; debated at Spock trial; in San Francisco; youth tactics

Vile Bodies
(Waugh)

Viorst, Judith

Wachter, Douglas

Wachter, Billie

Walker, Dee Dee

Walker, James Dean

Wallace, Henry

Walker, Doris Brin Marasse.
See
Dobby

Walter, Francis

Waltrip, Robert

War Labor Board

Washington, D.C.: Christmas with Esmond; Decca’s shared housing in; as educational; Esmond on; Esmond’s sales job in; New Dealers of; race riots; Romillys return to; Vidal on 69

Washington D.C.
(Vidal)

The Water Beetle
(Nancy Mitford)

Waugh, Evelyn

Weber, Ben

Weber, Terry

Weinberger’s

Weinglass, Leonard

Weissmuller, Johnny

Wellington College

Weston, Edward

White, Edmond

Whitman, Walt

“Whut They’re Thanking Down There” (Mitford)

Williams, Esther

Willis, Edwin

Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow

Winter, Ella

Wobblies

Wolfe, Tom

Women for Peace

Women’s Commission

women’s issues: burden of housework; gender discrimination; in the
People’s Daily World

Woodstock

Works Progress Administration

World’s Fair, 1939

World War I

Wright, Margaret

Wright, Richard

writing: Bay Area writers; copy editing help; Decca’s advice on; as Decca’s panacea; Decca’s style of;
Faces of Philip
; fact and fiction in;
A Fine Old Conflict
; as honed in letters to Esmond;
Kind and Usual Punishment
;
Lifeitselfmanship
; muckraker; publicity for; second memoir; at the Villa Bellagio; vocabulary;
see also Hons and Rebels
; journalism;
The American Way of Birth
;
The American Way of Death