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âwas immediately exhilarated':
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 184.
âThis life cannot':
PdeM to HS, 4 October 1946 (PdeM Mon).
âMy decision is':
PdeM to HS, 12 October 1946 (PdeM Mon).
âthe richest':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 197.
âthe Reichstag, now a vast shell':
see Stephen Spender,
European Witness
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946),
p. 235.
âan astonishingly bizarre':
Kingsley Martin, âA German Diary',
The New Statesman and Nation
, 27 April 1946.
âhungry, discouraged':
PdeM, âThe Dead Cities Revisited', July 1946 (unpublished article in PdeM Mon).
âsatrap days':
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 182.
âApart from the British':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in ibid.,
p. 190.
âAlthough props and scenery':
see Walter Goehr, âArt Among the Ruins',
The New Statesman and Nation
, 13
July 1946.
âunnaturally elaborate':
Clarissa Churchill, âBerlin Letter',
Horizon
, March 1946.
âIn the midst of':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 228.
âOtherwise we can never':
PdeM to HS, 15 July 1945 (HS PdeM).
âI came here':
PdeM to HS, 1 September 1945 (HS PdeM).
âWhat can one
do':
PdeM to HS, 12 August 1945 (PdeM Mon).
âhow many shades':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 219.
âLondon is so beautiful':
HS, diary, in
DaB
,
p. 206.
âone of the foremost':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in
DaB
,
p. 223.
âtaken as ever': ibid.,
p. 227.
âwith its blunt':
PdeM to HS, 19 August 1945 (HS PdeM).
âThey hardly ever':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in
DaB
,
p. 190.
ânothing goes to one's':
HS to PdeM, in ibid.,
p. 191.
âThe Red Army': ibid.
âIt is very difficult':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in ibid.,
p. 227.
âWriting to her sister':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 17 July 1947 (RM TC).
âShe was also disturbed':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 25 August 1947 (RM TC).
âunheralded and unordered':
RM to Jean Smith, 16 September 1947,
Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulay's Letters to a Cousin
, ed. Martin Ferguson Smith (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
âwith its indefatigable':
RM,
Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950),
pp. 32, 171.
âevoking the shifting colours': ibid.,
p. 23.
ârather startling!':
RM to Jean Smith, 16 September 1947 (
Dearest Jean
).
âIf these objects':
RM,
Fabled Shore
,
p. 40.
âshe had passed a lovely':
RM to Jean Smith, 16 September 1947 (
Dearest Jean
).
âShe told a hitchhiker':
see RM,
Fabled Shore
,
p. 175.
âthe returning memory': ibid.,
p. 175.
âthe Labour mismanagement':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 25 August 1947 (RM TC).
âa desolation of':
RM,
Fabled Shore
,
pp. 245â6.
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20:
âThe place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna'
âroofs covered with':
see GG to CW, 11 February 1948 (GG GU).
ânot going back to anyone':
see GG to VG, 19 June 1947 (VG Bod).
âlonging to push the':
see GG to CW, undated, 1947 (GG GU).
âmuch of Britain was ambivalent':
see David Kynaston,
Austerity Britain 1945â51
(London: Bloomsbury, 2008),
p. 243.
âI know what real':
see VG, interview with William Cash (private collection).
âcomforting Vivien':
see GG to CW, undated (VG Bod).
âa joyful Christmas':
see GG to CW, 26 December 1947 (GG GU).
âhe was feeling happy':
see GG to CW, 30 December 1947 (GG GU).
âbleakly miserable':
see GG to CW, 11 February 1948 (GG GU).
âHe does not have enough imagination':
see GG,
The Third Man
(London: Vintage, 2001),
ch. 1.
âwhite bonnets protruded':
see GG to CW, 16 February 1948 (GG GU).
âThe illegal penicillin':
see GG to Wilfred Harrington, 28 July 1950, Richard Greene,
Graham Greene, A Life in Letters
(London: Little, Brown, 2007).
âHideous they were':
Elizabeth Montagu, interview in Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004â5),
vol. 2, p. 252.
âa sordid smoke-filled':
see GG,
The Third Man
,
ch. 11.
âHow do you know?':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982),
ch. 5i.
âI was there':
EB to CR, 12 April 1955 (
LCW
).
âfully intelligent':
EB, GG, V. S. Pritchett,
Why do I Write? An Exchange of Views
(London: Percival Marshall, 1948).
âthe crowds of people':
see GG to CW, 17 February 1948 (GG GU).
âHe would have forgotten':
see GG to CW, 18 February 1948 (GG GU).
âthe best thing':
CR to Lilian Ritchie, April 1940, in
LCW
,
p. 41.
âAnd marriage is':
CR, diary, 12 November 1942 (
LCW
).
âNow that I am leaving':
CR, diary, 23 December 1945 (
LCW
).
âDeath of the Heart':
CR, diary, 25 December 1945 (
LCW
).
âLove of my Life': CR, diary, 23 February 1946 (
LCW
).
âgoing to take':
EB to CR, 23 November 1946 (
LCW
).
âAs a matter':
EB to Isaiah Berlin, Easter Sunday, 1948 (Isaiah Berlin archive, Bod).
âIf I were':
EB to CR, 8 February 1948 (
LCW
).
âSocialist principle':
Clement Attlee, in Peter Hennessy,
Never Again: Britain 1945â51
(London: Penguin, 2006),
p. 198.
âIf I lived':
EB to Lilian Ritchie, 10 March 1948 (
LCW
).
âI feel sometimes':
EB to CR, Easter Sunday, 1948 (
LCW
).
âHotels are always full':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
,
ch. 5ii.
âa scrap of paper':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
,
ch. 5i.
âlove is a little peace':
GG, âIl Pace',
A Quick Look Behind: Footnotes to an Autobiography
(Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983).
âhe had betrayed':
see GG, interview in Sherry,
Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 281.
âEveryone from Douglas':
Dorothy Glover to GG, 14 April 1948, in William Cash,
The Third Woman: The Secret Passion that Inspired The End of the Affair
(London: Abacus, 2001),
p. 169.
âdrink to it':
see GG to CW, 29 April 1948 (GG GU).
âlauded the novel':
EB, review of
The Heart of the Matter
,
Tatler
, 2 June 1948.
âhe was fond of her':
see GG to VG, 3 June 1948 (VG Bod).
âCurrency reform':
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 214.
âVienna has become':
HS, diary, in ibid.
âhe was embarrassed':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
,
ch. 5i.
âShellfire and a blaze':
HS,
Return to Vienna,
trans. Christine Shuttleworth (Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2011),
8 February.
âthe shattered Prater':
see GG,
The Third Man
,
ch. 14.
âlike a sort':
Elizabeth Montagu, interview in Sherry,
The Life of Graham
Greene, vol. 2, p. 250.
âa strange unknown world':
see GG, film treatment for
The Third Man
(GG HRC).
âmore and more likable:
see GG to CW, 21 June 1948 (GG GU).
[num]âenough of being successful':
see GG to CW, 25 June 1948 (GG GU).
âtired of being rich':
see GG to CW, 4 August 1948 (GG GU).
âthe British foreign secretary':
see Hennessy,
Never Again
,
p. 351.
âOur relationship':
HS to Mimi Spiel, in
DaB
,
p. 242.
âI can only repeat': ibid.
âYou are the cause':
PdeM, in ibid.
âHe is a wonderfully':
Rosamond Lehmann to Rayner Heppenstall, 26 February 1945, in Selina Hastings,
Rosamond Lehmann
(London: Vintage, 2003),
p. 240.
âBarbara replied that':
for Rex Warner's meeting with Barbara Rothschild, his letters to Pam Morris and his life in Berlin more generally, see Stephen E. Tabachnick,
Fiercer than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner
(East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002),
pp. 239â46.
âTackley weekend':
see GG to CW, 1 August 1948 (GG GU).
âa moment, perhaps':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 246.
âgreen grave': see HS to PdeM, February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âIn Wimbledon':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 249.
âDeep gloom has':
PdeM to HS, 12 September 1948 (HS PdeM).
âa male friend':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 252.
âI must write':
PdeM to HS, 18 February 1949 (PdeM Mon).
âLove to you':
PdeM to HS, 3 March 1949 (PdeM Mon).
âI'm tired, tired':
PdeM to HS, 22 June 1949 (PdeM Mon).
âso like Vienna':
EB to CR, 12 April 1955 (
LCW
).
âan awful pang':
see GG to CW, 24 September 1949 (GG GU).
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21:
âWe could have been happy for a lifetime'
âAnd they called
that
':
GG, âAfter Two Years',
A Quick Look Behind: Footnotes to an Autobiography
(Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983).
âthe idea of mortal':
see GG, interview in Marie-Françoise Allain,
The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984),
p. 159.