The Love-Charm of Bombs (78 page)

‘would have to fall back':
Winston Churchill, speech, 5 June 1945 (
War Speeches
).

‘His public appearances':
see Kynaston,
Austerity Britain 1945–51
(London: Bloomsbury, 2008),
p. 65.

‘lost cause':
EB to CR, 26 June 1945 (
LCW
).

‘Reluctantly I shall':
GG to Marion Greene, undated, in Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004–5),
vol. 2, p. 214.

‘For once it feels good':
PdeM to HS, 26 July 1945 (HS PdeM).

‘Damn!': see Walter Allen,
As I Walked Down New Grub Street
(London: Heinemann, 1981),
pp. 103–4.

‘terrific psychic shock':
EB to CR, 29 July 1945 (
LCW
).

‘It is the people's':
EB, ‘Britain, 1940',
People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

‘large quantities':
see CR, diary, 22 January 1941,
The Siren Years: Undiplomatic Diaries 1937–1945
(London: Macmillan, 1974).

‘Let Cartiers and the Ritz':
CR, diary, 17 December 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘Another lot':
EB to CR, 29 July 1945 (
LCW
).

‘all about a man':
HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 14 March 1945 (RL KC).

‘crying, dear Rose':
HG,
Back
(New York: The Viking Press, 1981),
pp. 5, 50.

‘an echo of his': ibid.,
p. 96.

‘Charley (he is called':
Mary Keene, note in her copy of
Back
(private collection).

‘entirely legitimate':
Manchester Guardian
, in Gardiner,
Wartime
,
p. 681.

‘as often miles':
Evelyn Waugh, diary, 7 August 1945,
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Michael Davie (London: Phoenix, 2009).

‘further debasement':
Juliet Gardiner,
Wartime
,
p. 681.

‘the newspapers':
see Evelyn Waugh, diary, 9 August 1945 (
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
).

‘This means the end':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 141.

‘I was genuinely':
HS to PdeM, 16 August 1945 (HS PdeM).

‘My sweet, I was glad':
PdeM to HS, 9 August 1945 (PdeM Mon).

‘most cordial':
HS, diary, 12 February 1945 (HS NLV).

‘About the christening':
PdeM to HS, 21 July 1945 (PdeM Mon).

‘Is it possible':
PdeM to HS, 23 August 1945 (HS PdeM).

‘You know how I':
EB to CR, 24 August 1945 (
LCW
).

 

16:
‘The magic Irish light and the soft air'

‘arrived by boat':
see EB,
The Shelbourne
(London: Vintage, 2001),
ch. 7.

‘It is impossible':
EB, ‘Ireland makes Irish',
People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

‘belong to a class':
EB to CR, 29 July 1945 (
LCW
).

‘Quite illicitly':
EB to CR, 24 August 1945 (
LCW
).

‘the action of Mr':
Winston Churchill, 13 May 1945,
War Speeches, 1939–45
, compiled by Charles Eade (London: Cassell & Co, 1951–2).

‘but acting justly':
Éamon de Valera, speech, 16 May 1945,
Speeches and Statements by Éamon de Valera 1917–73
, ed. Maurice Moynihan (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1980).

‘The sense of profusion':
EB to CR, 2 September 1945 (
LCW
).

‘The food in all':
EB to CR, 9 September 1945 (
LCW
).

‘This house':
EB to CR, 24 August 1945 (
LCW
).

‘It is a drowsy': ibid.

‘I can't dis-obsess': ibid.

‘Like when one's':
EB to CR, 2 September 1945 (
LCW
).

‘I really was':
EB to CR, 9 September 1945 (
LCW
).

‘To one person':
EB to CR, 2 September 1945 (
LCW
).

‘The hour – day': ibid.

‘I have felt':
EB to CR, 17 September 1945 (
LCW
).

‘It wakes me up': ibid.

‘fors and againsts': ibid.

‘War brutalised': ibid.

‘I don't think of E':
CR, diary, 17 September 1945(
LCW
).

‘I came over here':
EB to William Plomer, 24 September 1945,
The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).

‘cigarette famine':
EB to CR, 14 October 1945 (
LCW
).

‘The rooks subsided':
EB, afterword to
B's C
,
p. 449.

‘Yes, I have been':
EB to CR, 12 November 1945 (
LCW
).

‘I see now':
CR, diary, 23 February 1946 (
LCW
).

‘Yes, certainly':
EB to CR, 26 February 1946 (
LCW
).

‘That they should':
EB to CR, 6 March 1946 (
LCW
).

‘ramping round': ibid.

‘Anthony Powell and':
see Jeremy Treglown,
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green
(London: Faber, 2000),
pp. 196–7.

‘You see, with a cat': see Jenny Rees,
Looking for Mr Nobody: The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees
(London: Phoenix Giant, 1997), p. 120.

‘much bigger brain':
Mark Wyndham, in ibid.,
p. 150.

‘rapid heart action':
CR, diary, 7 April 1946 (
LCW
).

‘why shouldn't one':
EB to CR, 20 May 1946 (
LCW
).

‘bent head and the':
CR, diary, 21 August 1946 (
LCW
).

‘forging, with every':
EB to CR, 6 November 1946 (
LCW
).

‘a feeling of loss':
EB to CR, 18 November 1946 (
LCW
).

‘We are confronted':
EB, review of Rose Macaulay,
They Went to Portugal
,
Tatler
, 23 October 1946.

‘Henry Green is':
EB, review of Henry Green,
Back
,
Tatler
, 27 November 1946.

‘feeling dead tired':
EB to CR, 23 November 1946 (
LCW
).

‘all lopsided':
EB to CR, 12 December 1946 (
LCW
).

‘huddled over':
CR, diary, 20 February 1947 (
LCW
).

‘returning to the city': see CR, diary, 20 January 1947,
Diplomatic Passport: More Undiplomatic Diaries 1946–1962
(Toronto: Macmillan, 1981).

‘Is it another':
CR, diary, 2 April 1947 (
LCW
).

‘The trouble is':
CR, diary, 9 September 1947 (
LCW
).

‘Your letter came':
EB to CR, 26 October 1947 (
LCW
).

‘Your beloved letter':
EB to CR, 28 November 1947 (
LCW
).

‘Every time I':
EB to CR, 6 December 1947 (
LCW
).

‘Any novel I':
EB to CR, March 1945 (
LCW
).

‘most cryptic':
EB to CR, 20 May 1946 (
LCW
).

‘If that is so':
EB to CR, 6 December 1947 (
LCW
).

‘What bothers me':
Rosamond Lehmann to EB, 4 March 1949 (EB HRC).

‘Selfishly speaking':
EB to William Plomer, 24 September 1945 (
The Mulberry Tree
).

‘new commonness':
W. B. Yeats, ‘In the Seven Woods', 1902,
Collected Poems
(London: Vintage, 2009).

‘What's equality?': W. B.
Yeats, third ‘Marching Song',
Spectator
, 23 February 1934.

‘the sort now growing': W. B.
Yeats, ‘Under Ben Bulben', 1938 (
Collected Poems
).

‘like I daresay':
Francis Stewart, in Clair Wills,
That Neutral Island
(London: Faber, 2008),
pp. 370–1.

‘the ideal of those': Francis
Stuart, in ibid.,
p. 371.

‘sold itself out':
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 15.

‘All Right':
EB to CR, 24 August 1945 (
LCW
).

‘How extraordinarily':
EB to CR, 17 June 1948 (
LCW
).

‘with echoes, reflections':
CR, diary, 18 August 1973 (
LCW
).

‘against the beating':
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 15.

‘somehow, some place':
EB to CR, 6 December 1947 (
LCW
).

 

17:
‘Flying, no, leaping, into the centre of the mainland'

‘a branch of jasmine':
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 138.

‘she was inclined to agree':
see HS to PdeM, 17 November 1945 (HS PdeM).

‘Kingsley Martin's':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 143.

‘I was flying':
HS,
DaB
, p. 154.

‘the last vestiges':
HS, ‘The Streets of Vineta' (English draft of
Return to Vienna
), 30 January (HS NLV).

‘metallic morning sea': ibid.

‘Humid ghostly atmosphere':
HS, diary, 30 January 1946 (HS NLV).

‘furious spirit':
HS to PdeM, 1 February 1946 (HS PdeM).

‘not seen a single': ibid.

‘with an eye':
HS, ‘The Streets of Vineta', 31 January (HS NLV).

‘barbaric ugliness': ibid.

‘These bombs are not': ibid.

‘Greene describes the':
see GG,
The Third Man
(London: Vintage, 2001),
ch. 1.

‘In their Moscow':
see Hella Pick,
Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider
(London: Tauris, 2000), p. 17.

‘Nine months after':
HS,
Return to Vienna,
trans. Christine Shuttleworth (Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2011),
8 February.

‘the spiders which':
HS, ‘The Streets of Vineta', 31 January.

‘Darling this is the most':
HS to PdeM, 2 February 1946 (HS PdeM).