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index of correspondents

The style of the names follows that of the headings to the letters. Fuller identifications appear in theGeneral Index.

Adams, W. G. S. (Warden of All Souls), 187, 433,490

Alsop, Joseph, 480Astor, David, 615Ayer, A. J., 180

Beaverbrook, Lord, 617Behrman, S. N., 470Berlin, Marie and Mendel ( jointly), 8, 94, 96, 99,

143, 264, 265, 292, 313, 314, 315, 322, 324, 329,331, 333, 335, 342, 345, 347, 349, 350, 352, 353,358, 359, 363, 365, 369, 371, 373, 381, 383, 384,385, 386, 389, 392, 406, 407, 408 (2), 409, 413,415, 417, 426, 428, 431, 451, 466, 468, 472, 490,493, 495, 504, 522, 528, 539, 550, 581, 590,591 (2), 593, 595, 629

Berlin, Marie, 12, 18, 20, 27, 54, 81, 82, 85, 122,129 (2), 140, 142, 144, 183, 253, 592, 593

Berlin, Mendel, 18, 21, 59, 268, 277, 280, 281, 282,290, 364, 369, 399, 405

Bonham Carter, Cressida (later Ridley), 265, 266,267, 272, 277, 281, 293, 330, 403, 530

Bowen, Elizabeth, 52, 70, 78, 86, 116, 131, 177,180, 190, 193, 198, 213, 215, 225, 226, 229, 238,240, 262, 282, 286, 288

Bowra, Maurice (Warden of Wadham College),572

Chesterton, G. K., 2 (facsimile), 5Cohn, Mrs A., 462Cox, Christopher, 55, 57, 60, 94, 99, 559Cripps, Sir Stafford, 329Crosthwaite, Moore, 558Cruikshank, Robin, 508, 526

Dudley, Alan, 503

Eliot, T. S., 22

Faber and Faber, 643, 647, 649, 651Faber, Geoffrey, 638Fisher, H. A. L., 228Fisher, Lettice, 131, 301Fisher, Mary, 69, 91, 110, 112, 128, 139, 159, 209,

219, 230, 244, 263, 270, 298, 319, 337, 379Frankfurter, Felix, 119, 246Frankfurter, Marion, 169, 178, 304, 326, 341, 343

Frankfurter, Marion and Felix ( jointly), 104Freed Transformer Company, 614 (facsimile)Frias, Maria, 461

Gaster, Maire see Lynd, MaireGore-Booth, Paul, 464Grant Duff, Shiela, 40, 44, 45, 47, 75, 76, 82, 84,

85, 188, 224, 231, 260, 338Grundy, G. B., 501

Halifax, Lord, 302Hall, Donald, 492, 513Hampshire, Stuart, 145, 207, 238, 567Harriman, Averell, 629Harrod, Roy, 56Hart, Herbert, 497, 533Henderson, Charles, 26, 29, 32, 36Henderson, Isobel, 60Hertz, Joseph, 197Hill, Christopher, 563Hilton, John, 22, 23, 38, 46, 49, 117, 136, 146, 189,

206, 218, 276, 291Hilton, John and Peggy, 88Hodgkin, Thomas, 64, 66House, Humphry, 274Hubback, Diana, 63, 73, 148

Jay, Douglas, 295Jebb, Gladwyn, 318Joachim, Elisabeth, 275

Knopf, Blanche (Mrs Alfred A. Knopf ), 468

Lambert, Baroness, 561Leaning, W. J., 465Lehman, Herbert H., 362 (2)Lehmann, Rosamond, 203Lindsay, A. D. (Master of Balliol), 296Logan, Andy, 508Luce, Henry, 584Lynd, Maire (later Gaster), 103, 355Lynd, Sigle, 53

Malcolm, Angus, 438, 440, 443, 476, 625Morrow, Elizabeth, 540

New Yorker Store, The, 504

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Nicholas, Herbert, 419, 541, 552Nicolson, Ben, 254Niebuhr, Ursula, 459

Patten, Susan Mary, 627Price, Henry, 509

Rees, Goronwy, 37Ridley, Cressida see Bonham Carter, CressidaRoberts, Frank, 618Robertson, Giles, 147, 184Rumbold, Sir Anthony, 517, 521

Samunov, Ida, 10Schalit, Bella, 24Schapiro, Lillian Milgram, 378Schapiro, Meyer, 460Scott, Sir David, 434, 536, 544

Smith, Alic (Warden of New College), 569Spender, Stephen, 42, 123, 126, 141, 151, 157, 165,

172, 204, 236, 261, 269Stark, Freya, 494Straight, Lady Daphne, 423, 437, 440, 463, 499,

515, 545

Toynbee, A. J., 516Trott, Adam von, 62, 89Turner, Walter, 535, 579

Vennell, R., 562

Weizmann, Chaim, 354, 396Williams, Jenifer, 113, 114, 144, 149, 164, 198, 271

Zimmern, Alfred, 234

general index

Page numbers in italic identify pages on which footnotes – usually the first for the person or subject inquestion – give fuller information. An asterisk preceding a name indicates an entry in the Glossary.Works by IB appear directly under their titles, works by others under their authors’ names. TheChronology is not indexed.

abdication crisis (1936), 218

Abdullah ibn Husayn, King (earlier Emir) ofJordan, 107

Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria, Countess of (neeMarjoribanks), 9

Abrahams, Abraham, 346

Abreu, Jacques, 471 n1

Acheson, Dean Goodenham, 621, 668, 691

Adams, Muriel (nee Lane), 703

*Adams, William George Stewart (Warden of AllSouls): and elections to All SoulsFellowships, 65; resigns GladstoneProfessorship, 82 n3; on decency, 121;awarded CH, 179; IB sends memo onproposed psychology chair, 186; IB’s view of,207, 305, 703; Sumner succeeds at All Souls,539 n2; Hodson’s view of, 703; contact withvon Trott, 719

Addis, John Mansfield, 335

Adler, Alfred, 79

Adler, Elkan Nathan, 375

Adler, Rabbi Herman, 375 n3

Aerenthal, Aloys Leopold Johann Baptist, CountLexa von, 317

Aitken, William Traven, 91

Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna (pseud. of AnnaAndreevna Gorenko; Plate 40): IB meets inLeningrad, xl, 600–1, 605, 615, 619; life inLeningrad, 574, 611 n4; purged, 606 n2;evacuated from Leningrad, 607; son by

Gumilev, 609 n2; Dublin Review article on,611; Cinque, 619 n2; Poem without a Hero:dedication, 597

Akzin, Benjamin, 332, 334

al-Husseini, Hajj Amin, Mufti of Jerusalem, 98,101, 120, 249 n7

Aldington, Richard (ne Edward Godfree), 610

Aldridge, James Harold Edward, 611

Aleksey, Patriarch, Metropolitan of Leningrad(ne Sergey Vladimirovich Shimansky), 607

Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 67 n8

Alexander, Samuel, 42 n7

Alington, Cyril Argentine, 694 nAlington, Giles, 542, 694 nAll Souls College, Oxford (Plate 9): IB’s

Fellowship at, xviii, xl, 33–4, 40–2, 63;character, 63; elections to, 64–5, 171, 213, 539,542, 560, 567; IB’s life at, 115; proposes chairin psychology, 186–8; IB resigns Fellowship(1938), 274; support in for appeasementpolicy, 289–90

Allen, Carleton Kemp, 574

Allen, Sir Hugh Percy, 298, 300, 380, 415

Allen, Percy Stafford, 9, 33–4; death, 49

Alling, Paul Humiston, 438

*Alsop, Joseph Wright: IB visits in Virginia,348; friendship with IB, 372, 377; joins USNavy, 375; serves in China, 381; captured byJapanese and released, 411; offers room to






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convalescent IB, 414; posted to England asUS official, 417–18; marriage to Susan MaryPatten, 480 n1; IB suggests as Washingtoncorrespondent, 615

Alsop, Stewart Johonnot Oliver, 615Alter, Victor, 431Amalfi, 46, 417, 467Amanullah, King of Afghanistan, 250American Federation of Labor (AFL), 383 n5,

656, 664American Jewish Committee, 332 n2, 477American Jewish Conference (1943), 450, 674Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, 670,

677, 683Amsterdam, Saul, 566Anand, Mulk Raj, 262anarchism, 218Anderson, Sir John, 568 n4Andrew, Christopher, 714Andrewes, Alison see Blakeway, AlisonAndrewes, Antony, 92, 100, 161 n6, 211Angell, Sir Norman (ne Ralph Norman Angell

Lane), 439Annan, Noel Gilroy, Baron, xlii, 589Annenkov, Pavel Vasil' evich, 201Annunzio, Gabriele d’, 306Anrep, Anastasia, 163Anrep, Boris Vasil' evich von, 163 n2Anrep, Helen, 163 n2Antonius, George, 98, 101, 120Apricott, Albert Alfred (pseud. of IB), 191Apter(s) family, 505–6Apter(s), Irene (nee Silikis), 364, 505–6, 525–6Apter, Kadish Mendelevich (later Konstantin

Markovich Apters), 358–9, 364, 371, 505–6,524–5, 582, 629

Apter(s), Liliana, 505–6, 525Apter, Solomon Mendelevich, 506Arabs: and Palestine, 477, 669–70, 675–6, 685,

689–90, 692; and oil interests, 679Aranne, Zalman, 693Aristotelian Society: Proceedings, 231–2Aristotle, 534, 637, 710Armstrong, Hamilton (‘Ham’) Fish, 423Arnheim, Rudolf: Film als Kunst, 643–6Arnold, Thomas, 625Aronson, Adir, 361Aronson, Fanny, 332, 361Aronson, Samuel (‘Mulya’): emigrates to US, 307;

IB reports on in New York, 318, 323, 332, 343,345, 351, 353, 371, 395; business difficulties, 346,348–9, 366; IB’s father fails to write to, 349,364; dullness, 375; moves to North Carolina,456, 505

‘Arts in Russia under Stalin, The’ (IB), 601 n3Ashcroft, Peggy, 711Ashton-Gwatkin, Frank Trelawny Arthur (‘John

Paris’), 567, 573, 591

Ashton Wold, 244, 714Asquith, Anthony, 266Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and

Asquith, 222 n4Astor, (Francis) David (Langhorne), 615, 718Atlantic Charter, 422Attlee, Clement Richard (later 1st Earl), 382,

582 n1, 670, 677, 688, 690–1Auden, Wystan Hugh: emigrates to US, 126 n2,

306; IB praises poetry, 127; and GroupTheatre, 138; Day Lewis on, 191; J. A.Spender on, 225; Mrs Carritt on, 237; visitsIB in New York, 342; The Dance of Death,138; The Dog Beneath the Skin (withIsherwood), 127, 138; Letters from Iceland (withMacNeice), 88 n2

Austen, Jane, 63 n2, 73, 80*Austin, John Langshaw: election to All Souls

Fellowship, 64–5; conversations with IB, 115,116 n3; conducts philosophical seminars withIB, 152 n1, 233–4; Ridley on, 157; and IB’sproposed visit to Gottingen, 250; and logicalpositivism, 497; position at Oxford, 498; andHart’s philosophy post at New College, 512,534; and Hampshire’s career, 577; IB’smemory of, 233–4, 703

Austria: and Nazi threat, 83; future considered inwar, 421–2

Authorised Daily Prayer Book of the United HebrewCongregations of the British Empire (‘Singer’sPrayer Book’), 392

Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, 188 n6Averbach, Hilda, 129

*Ayer, Alfred (‘Freddie’) Jules: and Cassirer, 62;academic career, 108–9; and Bousios’s letterto Frankfurter, 108; logical positivism, 117,497; portrayed in E. Bowen’s The House inParis, 135; daughter Valerie born, 155, 170; onLindemann, 166; character and style, 170,239; and Frankfurters’ visit to Oxford, 178–9;contributes to Oxford Outlook, 180; admiresStuart Hampshire, 192; and Bowra’s returnfrom US, 225; attends Austin–IBphilosophical discussions, 233–4; andHampshire’s relations with wife Renee, 238 n,239–40; affair with Inez Pearn, 244; breachwith Spender, 244; IB hopes for post in US,252; IB meets on return from Ireland, 284;on wife’s wartime refuge in Hampshire, 294;military service, 305, 341 n1, 387–8; suited toUS, 328; marriage relations, 344, 395; visitsUS in war, 387–8, 390; joins MI6, 388 n1; onMrs Rees, 388; tutors Clarissa Churchill,405 n2; and Kramazsky, 429; returns toEngland in war, 429–30, 460; posted to GoldCoast, 460; position at Oxford, 498; Hartand, 511; on Rumbold, 517; IB’s assessmentof, 704; Marie Berlin’s disapproval of, 704;Language, Truth and Logic, 164






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Ayer, Julian, 345Ayer, (Grace Isabel) Renee (nee Lees; later

Hampshire; Plate 33): marriage, 63 n7, 704;rumba reminds IB of, 92; lives in London,108; and Japan, 215; relations with StuartHampshire, 238 n3, 294, 305, 576, 704;marriage relations, 239–40, 344, 395; furnishesIB’s rooms in New College, 278; wartimerefuge in Hampshire, 294; in US, 337, 341–5;returns to England, 349, 388, 390

Ayer, Valerie, 345Ayerst, David George Ogilvy, 36

Bacon, Robert Law, 487 n1Bacon, Virginia Murray, 487Badoglio, Marshal Pietro, 442Baker, Harold Trevor, Warden of Winchester,

301Baker, Inez (‘Inezita’/‘Zita’) Hilda (nee Davis,

later Crossman) 233, 707Baker, John Randal, 233 n1, 707Baker, Liva, 709Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 42 n2, 200–2Baldwin, Stanley, 146, 173Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl, 249 n1, 388;

Declaration on Palestine, 671Balfour, John (‘Jock’), 481–2, 550, 569, 572, 618,

624, 630Balliol College, Oxford, 216, 565–7, 571, 576Balogh, Thomas (later Baron), 339–40Baneth, David Hartwig, 97Bar Giora, Shimon, 663Barber, Eric Arthur, 458Barclay, Roderick (‘Roddie’) Edward, 434–5, 519,

568Barger, Evert Hugh, 65Baring, Maurice, 112, 366Barker, Arthur, 83Barker, Ernest, 83Barkley, Alben William, 554, 557Barnes, Kenneth Ralph, 244Barnett, Canon Samuel Augustus, 77Bartlett, Frederic Charles, 187 n2Bartok, Bela, 273Baruch, Bernard Mannes, 447, 450, 623 n3, 665,

674Bates, Herbert Ernest, 172Bathurst, Maurice Edward, 425Battershill, Sir William, 683Battle of Britain (1940), 333, 334 n1, 336 n1Baudelaire, Charles, 173, 609Bayou, Pamela de see Warburg, PamelaBazley, Sir Thomas, 127Bazykin (Gromyko’s assistant), 464Beale, Marie Chase Oge, 483–4, 487 n2, 548Beaulieu-sur-Mer, 261–3, 295Beaumont, Robert Leslie, 213Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st

Baron, 91, 206, 496, 543, 546, 583

Beazley, John Davidson, 147 n1Beazley, Marie, 147, 156, 184Beckett, (William) Eric, 568Beecham, Audrey, 237, 250–1Beeley, Sir Harold, 339, 348, 582, 667Beethoven, Ludwig van, 154, 272–3Beethoven Society, 148Begin, Menachem, 121 n4Behrman, Samuel Nathaniel, 470Belinsky, Vissarion Grigor' evich, 259Bell, Anne Olivier, xxii, xxvi, 69 n1Bell, Caroline: ‘Petticoat Diplomat’, 399 n1Bell, Clive, 644Bell, John (High Master of St Paul’s), 6, 11Bell, Kenneth Norman, 66, 162 n6, 384Bell, Oliver Sydney, 162Bell, Quentin Claudian Stephen, 69Bell, Walter Fancourt, 457Belloc, ( Joseph) Hilaire Pierre, 145Bellville, Rupert, 223 n1Beloff, Max (later Baron), 141, 199, 213 n2, 265,

518Bemelmans, Ludwig, 412Ben Zakkai, Yochanan, 663Ben-Gurion, David, 121, 666–7, 672–4, 677, 685–7,

690–1Benckendorff family, 366Benckendorff, Count Alexander Konstantinovich,

366 n5Bendern, Count John de, 507 n3Bendern, Lady Patricia Sybil de (nee Douglas;

Plate 35), 457 n5, 471 n1, 507, 583, 615, 621 n1Benedict XV, Pope, 168 n3Benenson, Fira see Ilinska, Countess FiraBenenson, Grigory, 360 n5Benes, Edvard, 421–2Bennett, Mary see Fisher, MaryBennett, John, 708Benson, Rex Lindsay, 393Bentham, Jeremy, 297Benthamism, 145Bentley, Edmund Clerihew, 5 n, 485Bentwich, Norman de Mattos, 247, 383Berg, Alban, 273; Wozzeck, 82Bergner, Elisabeth (Mrs Paul Czinner), 313–14,

316Bergson, Henri, 77, 635Bergson, Peter (pseud. of Hillel Kook), 439 n2Beriya, Lavrenty Pavlovich, 607, 694 nBerkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne, 77Berkeley, George Fitz-Hardinge, 263Berle, Adolf Augustus, Jr, 420–1, 422, 425 n4, 439,

448, 464, 477, 484, 491, 668Berle, Dr Beatrice (nee Bishop; wife of A. A.

Berle, Jr), 465, 484Berlin: IB visits (1945), 589, 627Berlin family, 496Berlin, Aline see Strauss, Aline






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Berlin, Beinus, 254Berlin, Irving (ne Israel Baline), 42, 397, 478–80,

489, 492, 506, 508 n5, 585*Berlin, Isaiah:

Plates 8, 13, 16, 21 and other Plates listedbelow; education and academic career(Plates 4, 7), xviii, xxxix–xl, 5, 11, 19–20, 25;letter-writing, xxi–xxii; conversation,xxxvii–xxxviii, xliv, 461; life and character,xxxvii–xliv; honours, xxxix, xlii; marriage, xli;writings and ideas, xli–xliv; spelling, 12 n2,640 n2; gossip, 15; financial accounts, 18–19;languages, 21 n4; concert- and opera-going,26, 82–3, 86, 100, 118, 122–3, 131, 133, 140, 205,237, 263, 266, 272, 292, 294, 495, 580, 603;career prospects, 28, 33–4; studies politics, 36;writes publishers’ reports, 37, 638–53; degreein PPE, 38; New College lectureship, 38–9,41, 61–2; All Souls Fellowship, 40–2, 63;confused with Irving Berlin, 42, 397, 478–80,506; reads Russian authors, 42–3; in Ireland(Plates 20, 29), 50–4, 86–8, 176, 191–2;confesses ‘kleptomania’, 74; visits Palestine,93–102, 105–6, 109–10; denies being engaged,95; Oxford life, 115; suffers attack of quinsy,130–1, 169; writes on music, 140, 143–4,191 n5, 236; sprains toe, 141; painting of aschild (Plate 17), 147 n5; conductsphilosophical seminars with J. L. Austin,152 n1, 233–4; pseudonym, 191; first air flight,217, 222–3; spends month in nursing home,228–9; views on Oxford PPE, 234–6;presumed elocution lessons, 241 n1; PrudencePelham’s limerick on, 244 n7; attire inSalzburg (Plate 19), 256; conversationaltennis-playing, 257; on French Riviera, 261–2;moves from All Souls to New CollegeFellowship, 274, 288; opposes Munichagreement, 289–90; as tutor, 290–1; offersservices to war effort, 302–4; proposedwartime visit to USSR, 312, 318–19, 324,326–7, 329, 331, 333–5, 338, 355–6, 452–3, 458,473, 482, 530, 655; offered official positions inWashington, 332–3; works for British Libraryof Information in US, 340–1, 348–51; wartimereturn to England via Portugal, 352–5;appointed to British Information Services inNew York, 354, 356; returns to US ( January1941), 357–60; appearance and dress in US,367; hospitalised in New York, 373, 387;portrayed in Berners’s Far from the MaddingWar, 388; theatre-going, 391, 471, 600; runsPolitical Survey Section at British Embassyin Washington (Plate 36), 399–400; sendsreports on US attitudes to Britain, 399–402;takes leave in England (August 1942), 403;contracts pneumonia and hospitalised inNew York, 404–14, 416, 432; speech, 406;convalesces, 415–17; social life in Washington,460–1; travels in US, 465–8, 483, 494; recalled

to London (March 1944), 488–9; interest inhistory of ideas, 489; takes holiday in US( July–August 1944; Plate 37), 495; offeredposts in Foreign Office, 513–20, 526, 537,544–5; declines post in Paris, 515–16, 519;treatment for sinus problems, 522, 526,528–9, 539; visits Mexico, 535–7, 539–40, 545;Clark Kerr invites to Moscow Embassy(Plate 38), 550–2, 558–9, 563, 569–70, 573, 583;leaves Washington (summer 1945), 552, 581;post-war teaching at New College, 567;summoned to San Francisco conference,580–1; attendance at Potsdam Conferencecancelled, 582–3; contracts influenza, 583;Time magazine article on, 584–5; visitsMoscow (1945), 587, 589; visits Leningrad,592–5, 597, 599–612, 615; in Akhmatovadedication to Poem without a Hero, 597;Brenda Tripp’s view of, 600–1; officialreports on Russia, 601; awarded CBE, 615,617 n2; returns to Washington (1946), 615,621; returns to Oxford (April 1946), 630

Berlin, Isaiah, Sr, 496 n1Berlin, Lev (Leo) Borisovich (Mendel’s brother),

590, 591–2, 618 n3Berlin, Marie see Berlin, (Mussa) MarieBerlin, Meir (Bar-Ilan), 97, 101 n5, 102, 428–30,

432, 438, 496 n1*Berlin, Mendel (Borisovich) (IB’s father; Plate 2):

family memoir, xxv, 587; career, xxxix,352 n1, 393; visits Riga, 8; visits Berlin, 27–8;congratulates IB on All Souls Fellowship,41–2; in Amalfi, 46; IB holidays with inFrance, 54; anxiety over not hearing fromwife, 85; in Moscow, 136; on Munichagreement, 290; and IB’s departure for US,357; gall bladder problem, 364 n5; occupiesIB’s New College rooms in wartime, 364 n5;pays allowance to IB, 365; on IB’spneumonia in New York, 404–8, 413, 417–18;IB advises on house purchase, 472–3; plansBournemouth holiday, 505; in post-warGermany, 592–3; character 704–5

*Berlin, (Mussa) Marie (nee Volshonok; IB’smother; Plates 1, 2): dictatesautobiographical document, xxv; character,xxxix, 704; visits Riga, 8, 254; Zionism, 9 n2,93; in Germany, 54; IB reports to, 81–3, 473;stays in Brighton, 85 n1, 91; IB visits inDroitwich, 90; health, 129, 136; travelsabroad, 240; friendship with Oscar Philipp,316 n6; worry at IB’s departure for US, 321;wartime residences, 364 n5; and IB’spneumonia in New York, 408–9, 413, 417–18;IB advises on house purchase, 472; plansBournemouth holiday, 505, 539; dyes hair,551 n1; complains of IB not writing, 629 n1

Berlin, Samuel Borisovich (Mendel’s brother),590 n1, 594 n5






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Berlin, Shaye, 254Berlin, Solomon (‘Lyoma’) Borisovich (Mendel’s

brother), 596Berlioz, (Louis) Hector, 154, 531; Messe des Morts,

156Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th

Baron, 150, 153, 304–5, 392, 494; Far from theMadding War, 388

Bernhardt, Sarah (nee Henriette-RosineBernard), 165, 508

Bernstein, Sidney Lewis, 407, 408, 410, 418Betjeman, John, 251Beveridge, William Henry, 1st Baron, 459Bevin, Ernest, 621, 623, 670, 688–90Bianchi, Joao A. de, 575Bick, Myer Oscar, 28, 54–5, 317 n1, 418Bielenberg, Christabel, 91 n2Bieville, Anne, comte de, 150, 153, 258Biltmore Resolution (1942), 674Bing Boys, The, 559Binnie, Alfred Maurice, 381Birkenhead, Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith,

2 nd Earl, and Sheila, Countess of (neeBerry), 160 n1, 179

Bishop, Herbert Francis (‘Adrian’), 216, 238Bismarck, Prince Otto von, 201Black, Hugo LaFayette, 485Blackwell, Basil, 177 n1Blackwell, Benjamin Henry, 116 n1Blaikie, Derek Edward Walter (ne Kahn):

holiday with IB, 55–6; and Marxism, 174; atOxford, 186; meets IB at concert, 237

Blake, Nicholas see Day Lewis, CecilBlake, William, 175, 636Blake-Tyler, H. B., 434Blakeway, Alan Albert Antisdel, 50, 111, 140 n3,

161–2, 206, 210–11Blakeway, Alison (nee Hope; later Andrewes),

50 n2, 161–2, 210–11, 221Blanc, Jean-Joseph Charles-Louis, 201Blech, Leo, 49Bliss, Arthur Edward Drummond, 226Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 487 n2Blixen, Karen, 717Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 76, 127, 551, 609Bloomsbury group, 153, 194Blum, Leon, 264, 290Blum, Sol, 476Blumberg, William, 183Blunden, Edmund: English Villages, 535 n1Blunt, Alfred Walter Frank, Bishop of Bradford,

219 n1Blunt, Anthony Frederick, 148, 186, 216, 260,

318 n1B’nei B’rith, 9, 97Boase, Thomas (Tom) Sherrer Ross: reassures

Peggy Jay, 113; as Jenifer Williams’s tutor,114 n4; in Oxford with IB, 150–1, 226, 260;Bowra jokes about name, 176; on O’Neill,

192; Jeremy Hutchinson on, 209; andabdication, 220; affability, 229

Boehme, Jakob, 113Boenders, Frans, 489 n1Bogdanov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 119 n1Bohlen, Avis Howard (nee Thayer), 628 n6, 629Bohlen, Charles (‘Chip’) Eustis, 481, 486, 488,

520–2, 559, 581–2, 623, 628–9Boisson, Pierre Francois, 420Boker, (Robert) Alexander Herbert, 575Bolsover, George Henry, 624Bonham Carter, Charlotte, Lady, 269Bonham Carter, (Helen Laura) Cressida (later

Ridley; Plate 27), 256–7, 265, 403 n2, 507, 530,714

Bonham Carter, Sir Edgar, 269 n2Bonham Carter, Sir Maurice and Lady Violet

(nee Asquith), 256 n1, 330 n3Bonnier de la Chapelle, Fernand, 420 n3Boothby, Robert John Graham (later Baron), 542,

546Borge, Victor, 556 n4Boston, Mass., 483, 495Boult, Adrian, 83 n1Boult, David Robert, 299, 507, 524Boult, Nancy Patricia Norah, 507, 524Bournemouth, 505, 539Bousios, Basil Nicholas Hellenagoras, 108Bovard, Oliver Kirby, 383Bowen, Anne Marcella Cole, 284

*Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (Mrs AlanCameron): IB visits at Bowen Court, 51–3,191, 278, 280; letter from Virginia Woolf onIB, 69; and IB’s meeting with VirginiaWoolf, 70–1; on America, 79; in Oxford, 82,90, 108, 204; Goronwy Rees meets, 93;independence of mind, 153; IB’s appreciationof, 170, 705; relations with Goronwy Rees,182, 192, 196, 215, 712; IB uses expressionfrom, 199 n5; describes Ricketts, 205; aslowbrow, 213; proposed trip to Japan, 215; onInez Pearn, 221; IB invites to Oxford, 226;melodramatic inclinations, 239; at Salzburg,245; writes for Night and Day, 251; praisesIB’s cloak, 256; Humphry House sendspamphlet to, 262; childhood in Hythe,281 n2; visits New College, 289; in wartime,304; The Cat Jumps and Other Stories, 87–8;The Death of the Heart, 193 n1, 288–9; EnglishNovelists, 535 n1; The House in Paris, 132 n1,133, 135, 139, 170, 191, 289; To the North, 284,286 n1, 288

Bowen, Erica (nee Baillie), 45 n1, 387, 390Bowen, (Ivor) Ian, 45, 77, 126, 192, 358, 387, 390,

567, 576, 582Bowen’s Court, Co. Cork, 51, 192, 196, 240, 280,

284–5, 287, 705, 712Bowes-Lyon, Sir David, 435–6Bowman, Isaiah, 492






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*Bowra, (Cecil) Maurice: on IB’s influence, xlii;writes to IB from Verona, 47; writes to IB inHolland, 47; dislikes Jane Austen, 80;Goronwy Rees and, 83; on Foster as bore,104; and Bousios’s letter to Frankfurter, 108;Fraenkel praises, 109; at Oxford tea party,111; in Berlin, 113; with IB at All Souls, 115,127; behaviour, 116; absence from Oxford,129, 211, 225; self-assessment, 132; exchangesgossip with IB, 135; hates Peter See, 140;visits Cambridge, 141; hates Connolly, 142,190; note on Turner’s letter, 144; on IB’sdislike of being uprooted, 152; independenceof mind, 153; fails to be appointed RegiusProfessor of Greek, 154, 169–70, 173, 177–8; atBlakeway party, 161–2; portrayed in DayLewis novel, 167; view of Lindemann, 167;modifies entertaining, 169; attitude toundergraduates, 174; joke on Boase, 176; IBaccuses of unscrupulousness, 181, 190; atHarvard, 182, 218, 220, 229, 253, 328; andGoronwy Rees’s relations with ElizabethBowen, 182; relations with Goronwy Rees,190; on O’Neill, 192; comments on people,196; IB sends letter to Elizabeth Bowen, 198;on Martin Cooper, 205; on Blakeway’sdeath, 206; return from US, 225; relationswith IB, 233; and Audrey Beecham, 237,250–1; IB’s attachment to, 240; IB writes to,244, 371; and IB’s proposed visit toGottingen, 250; marriage prospects, 250–1;portrayed in Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North,286 n1, 288 n; as Warden of WadhamCollege, 286, 293–4; joking, 287, 304; IB’sview of, 289; and Fisher’s funeral tribute,300; Berners stays with, 305; on dying inbattle, 306–7; political sympathies, 338;opposes IB’s move to New York, 356; andIB’s absence in US, 371, 383; and Czechliterature, 380; and critical article onFrankfurter, 382, 388; IB orders book (TheHeritage of Symbolism), 432, 458, 460; on AnneFremantle, 454; writes to IB in US, 470, 539;decline, 498; disapproves of Hart’s electionto Fellowship, 539; on IB’s Zionist views,667; liked by Marie Berlin, 704; IB’smemories of, 705–6; friends, 710; From Virgilto Milton, 575; Greek Lyric Poetry, 154; TheHeritage of Symbolism, 432 n2, 458 n2, 460

Bracken, Brendan (later 1st Viscount), 423 n8,457, 487, 496 n5, 503

Bradley, Francis Herbert, 77, 514 n2, 650, 652Braithwaite, Richard Bevan, 117, 135Branch, Guy, 151, 244 n7, 257–8, 293–4Branch, Lady Prudence see Pelham, Lady

PrudenceBrand, (Robert) James, 547Brand, Robert Henry (later 1st Baron), 377, 475,

547, 560

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 360, 364, 382, 465,665–6

Brandt, Raymond Peter, 554Brant, Irving Newton, 554Brecht, Bertolt, 127Brentford, William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount,

30Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918), 317, 536Breton, Andre, 174Brett, Reginald Baliol, 2 nd Viscount Esher, 186Bretton Woods: Conference (1944), 464 n5, 543,

546Bricker, John William, 485, 486, 499Bridges, Edward, 568Brighton, 85 n1, 91, 240Brimelow, Thomas, 592 n1Britansky soyuznik (Soviet journal), 605 n5,

608 n1, 612British Information Services (BIS), 209, 354, 541,

543, 655–6, 721; Surveys, 548–9British Library of Information (New York),

340–1, 343–4, 346, 348–51, 655, 721British Press Service (US), 309 n3, 356, 366, 717,

721Brittain, Vera, 576 n4Broad, Charlie Dunbar, 118, 157, 497, 511Broadmead, Philip Mainwaring, 583Brodersen, Lelia, xviii & n3, xxxvBrodetsky, Selig, 524, 530Brogan, Denis William, 319, 660Browder, Earl Russell, 563Brown, Alec John Charles, 114Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of

the Reichstag, The, 60Brown Harriman (US bank), 332, 334–5, 347Brown, Miss (friend of Elizabeth Bowen), 51Brown, Norman Oliver, 149 n4, 203Brown Shipley ( bank), 290Browne, Sir Thomas, 227Bruce Lockhart, Sir Robert (Hamilton), 491, 527Bruno, Giordano, 634Bryusov, Valery Yakovlevich, 551Buchan, Alistair Francis, 217Buchan, John (later 1st Baron Tweedsmuir), 195,

287Buchan, John (later 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir),

178 n1Buchan, Susan (later Lady), 195Buchan, William de l’Aigle, 178, 287Buckler, William Hepburn and Georgina, 136Budden, Sidney, 22 n3Buehne, Sheema Z., xviiin3Buhler, Lady Prudence see Pelham, Lady

PrudenceBuhler, Robert, 244 n7Bullard, Arthur, 574 n6Bullard, Sir Reader (William), 620Bullitt, William Christian, 336, 521, 622Bullock, Alan Louis Charles (later Baron), 542






general index730

Burgess, Guy Francis de Moncy: in US with IB,xviii, 312–13, 315 n3, 318; drinking, 148;proposes trip to Moscow with IB, 312, 318,324, 333; recalled to England, 322, 324, 330;Marie Berlin’s disapproval of, 704; friendshipwith Rees, 713

Burgh, William George de, 184Burlyuk, David Davidovich, 551Burra, Edward John, 205Busch, Adolf, 272 n2Busch Quartet, 272–3Busch, Wilhelm: Max und Moritz, 266Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo

Benvenuto, 140Butler, Harold Beresford: heads BIS in

Washington, 309, 405, 435, 502; and IB’sillness, 407, 414; and Lady Daphne Straight,423–4; friendliness towards IB, 428, 431; IB onineffectiveness and unpopularity, 431, 569; onPolish American Congress, 501; declines offerof post, 503; and Grant Mackenzie, 527;praises Hayek’s book, 541, 543

Butler, Joseph, Bishop of Durham, 692 n1Butler, Nevile Montagu, 399, 440–1, 481Butler, Nicholas Murray, 253Butler, Rohan d’Olier, The Roots of National

Socialism 1783–1933, 392Butterfields (Bermuda bank), 325, 343, 348Byrnes, James Francis, 542, 547, 553, 557, 621, 623Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 155, 230

Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 21 n5, 180; Dead Centre,227; Pie in the Sky, 226

Cambon, Jules Martin, 335Cambridge: Bowra visits, 141; IB in, 152 n1,

215–16; spy ring, 318 n2, 506 n4Cameron, Alan Charles, 171, 192, 204, 215 n1, 240,

705Cameron, Mrs Alan see Bowen, ElizabethCamoes, Luis de, 575Campbell, Archibald Hunter, 126, 156Campbell, Sir Gerald, 309, 375, 382, 503Campbell, Sir Ronald Ian, 425, 428, 434, 516, 520,

550Canada: Soviet spy suspects arrested in, 624–5Cane, Cyril Huvert, 384Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp, 80Capehart, Homer Earle, 499Caradon, Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron, 97 n1Cardan, Gerolamo ( Jerome Cardan), 167Carlyle, Thomas, 297Carnap, Rudolf, 160Carol II, King of Romania, 249Carr, Edward Hallett, 542, 694 n; Karl Marx, 200,

202; Michael Bakunin, 265Carr, Herbert Wildon, 512Carritt, Edgar Frederick, 141, 512Carritt, Gabriel, 181Carritt, Winifred Margaret Frampton (nee Etty),

237

Carruthers, Miss ( John Foster’s formergoverness), 366, 370–1, 432, 474

Casals, Pablo, 295Casey, William Joseph, 547Cassirer, Bruno, 317 n7Cassirer, Else, 317Cassirer, Ernst, 62–4, 91Cassirer, Paul, 317 n7Cassirer, Toni, 62 n5, 317Casson, Stanley, 174Castle Howard, Yorkshire, 170 n1Catlin, George Edward Gordon, 576Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 154Cavailles, Jean, 122, 720Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di, 437, 691

*Cecil, Lord (Edward Christian) David(Gascoyne) on Ottoline Morrell, 111 n3;independence of mind, 153; Elizabeth Bowen(Mrs Cameron) entertains, 170; and Bowra’sbid for Greek chair, 177; Harrod cites, 225;IB wishes to meet, 241; at Bowen’s Court,285; taste, 286; visits Bowra at Wadham,293–4; voice, 304; in wartime Oxford, 304–5;and IB’s intended return from US, 348;writes to IB in US, 371, 384, 392, 427, 524;and IB’s absence in US, 383, 455, 475, 493,539; and Berners’ novel Far from the MaddingWar, 388; IB visits on trip from Washington,494; and Hart’s tutorship at New College,512; on bringing wife to Oxford, 534; IB’smemory of, 706; The English Poets, 535 n1

Cecil, Rachel (Lady David Cecil; neeMacCarthy), 294, 706

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand (pseud. of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches): anti-Semitism, 263

Celler, Emanuel., 450Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 632Chamberlain, Joseph: daughters, 463Chamberlain, Lawrence Henry, 319Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville, 249, 282, 284–5,

355 n1, 500Chaplin, Charles (‘Charlie’) Spencer, 30Charles, Prince of Wales, 529 n4Chateaubriand, Francois Auguste Rene, Vicomte

de, 270Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 242; Three Sisters,

558Chelmsford, Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st

Viscount, 41Chennault, General Claire Lee, 481 n2, 615, 703Chester, (Daniel) Norman, 410Chesterton, Frances, 7 nChesterton, Gilbert Keith: xvi, 2, 5, 6–8, 639;

‘Debellare Superbos’ (poem), 8Chiang Kai-shek, 182, 481 n2, 615 n5Chicago, 385Chicago Tribune, 476 n4, 622 n3Chichester, Jocelyn Brudenell Pelham, 6th Earl

of, 244 n7






general index 731

Childs, Larissa (nee Choumakoff ), 360, 381

Childs, Marquis William, 518

Childs, Stephen Lawford: as Press Officer inWashington, 329, 377; persuades IB toanalyse and write reports on UScorrespondents in Europe, 331, 337, 342–3, 655;negotiates longer-term role for IB in US,345–50, 377; authorises transfer of money toIB in US, 365; IB’s relations with, 381;unpopularity, 396, 424

Chilver, Elizabeth (‘Sally’) see Graves, Elizabeth*Chilver, Guy Edward Farquhar (Plate 16): IB

meets in Florence, 111; and Armide Oppe,113; visits Rachel Walker in Paris, 122, 720;invited to IB lunch, 140; as Wykehamist, 160;at Blakeway party, 162; complacency, 210;and Blakeway’s death, 211; and Betty Russell,223; in war preparations, 287; politicalsympathies, 338; returns to England fromUS, 414; in US, 427; IB shares Washingtonhouse with, 455, 467, 469, 473, 493, 496, 502,552, 594; sends greetings from Washington,506, 512; friendship with Playfair, 568; IB’sview of, 706

Chilver, Priscilla (later Davidson; Plate 16), 113

Chilver, Richard Clementson (Plates 13, 16), 58,60, 133 n1, 161, 163 n1, 227 n5, 239 n1, 513

Chukovsky, Korney Ivanovich, 573

Church, Madeline Edith (later House), 80, 87, 711

Churchill, (Anne) Clarissa (later Eden; thenCountess of Avon), 405

Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy (nee Hozier), 478,479–80

Churchill, Mary (later Lady Soames), 478

Churchill, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer,600, 603, 606–7

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer: reads IB’sWashington despatches, xl; anti-Bolshevikviews, 30; anti-Nazism, 158 n4; on Battle ofBritain, 337 n7; pro-Zionist sentiments, 355 n1,376, 670, 676, 686; popularity in US, 367, 387;appeals to US for supplies, 369; suppressesrevolt in Iraq, 373 n3; wartime visits to US,390–1, 434, 436 n5, 467; relations withRoosevelt, 391, 456; pneumonia, 432; IBmeets in Washington, 467; and confusionover Irving and Isaiah Berlin, 478–80, 489,508 n5, 584; and Roosevelt’s 1944 re-election,500; attends Yalta Conference, 542 n6; onduty, 569; writes to Truman on ‘ironcurtain’, 581; at Potsdam Conference, 582 n1;loses 1945 election, 594, 600 n3, 688, 690–1;Soviet view of, 594–5; Rakhlin presents bookto, 607; ‘iron curtain’ speech (Fulton,Missouri, 1946), 623 n3; meets Byrnes inFlorida, 623; Weizmann supports, 669;opposes 1939 White Paper on Palestine, 670;

and creation of Jewish State, 671; andMoyne’s assassination, 687–8; IB compareswith Weizmann, 721; Complete Speeches (ed.Robert Rhodes James), 336 n7

Clair, Rene, 52Clark, Albert Curtis, 31, 56–7, 64, 112 n4Clark, Barbara, 69Clark, George Norman, 69, 296Clark, Joel Bennett (‘Champ’), 557Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie (later Baron), 177, 186,

384Clark, William Donaldson, 575, 580, 616Clark Kerr, Sir Archibald John Kerr (later 1st

Baron Inverchapel): visits Washington fromMoscow, 473, 481–2; invites IB to Moscow,550–2, 558–9, 563, 569, 573; IB suggestscancelling visit to Moscow, 583; returns toMoscow, 595; succeeds Halifax inWashington, 624

Cobbett, William, 145Cockburn, Claud: In Time of Trouble, 481 n5Cocteau, Jean: Les Enfants Terribles, 134Codrington, Christopher, 163Coghill, Neville Henry Kendal Aylmer, 553Cohen, Arthur J. M., 112Cohen, Benjamin Victor: IB meets, 323, 368, 377;

calls on IB’s parents, 372; resigns from USgovernment, 381; and Joe Alsop, 419;pictured in Time magazine, 427; Goldmanconsults, 445; negotiates founding of UN,496; in State Department, 621; and US Jews,665, 672; helps draft Palestine mandate, 681

Cohen, Joseph (‘Cohen Next Door’), 313–14, 316Cohen, Morris Raphael, 534Cohn, Alfred Einstein, 345, 406, 462Cohn, Mrs Alfred Einstein, 462Cohn, David Lewis, 425Coldstream, William Menzies, 293–4Cole, (George) Douglas Howard, xl, 67, 155Cole, Margaret Isabel, 155Coleridge, Richard Duke (later 4th Baron),

380 n5Coleridge, Rosamund (nee Fisher), 380, 427, 456Colley, Noreen, 285Collingwood, Robin George, 44, 72, 117Collins (publishers): Britain in Pictures series,

535 n1Cologne, 35Colonial Office, 547, 560Colville, John Rupert, 479–80Committee to Defend America by Aiding the

Allies, 326 n2Communism: IB’s views on, 153–4; IB resists,

188; in post-war Europe, 522, 623–4; invokesPlato, 636; and US Congress of IndustrialOrganizations, 664

Communist Party: Spender joins, 167, 229; andLynd sisters, 712; Rees allegedly recruited to,714

Conant, James Bryant, 253






general index732

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO ofUS), 383, 385, 656, 664

Connelly, Matthew J., 556Connely, Willard, 320Connolly, Cyril, 83, 142, 169, 190, 195, 221, 226;

The Rock Pool, 174, 181Cooke, Allison, 407Cooke, Revd George Albert, 162 n2Cooke, Helen, 162Cooke, Mary Munroe, 548–9Coolidge, Calvin, 441Cooper, Lady Diana (later Viscountess

Norwich), 190, 628Cooper, (Alfred) Duff (later Viscount Norwich):

attitude to Bowra, 190; sends Childs to US,347; Ronald Tree acts as PPS to, 423 n; offersIB post in Paris, 515, 519, 529, 538; IBdisparages, 568, 577; as ambassador toFrance, 575; pro-Arab sentiments, 670

Cooper, Martin du Pre, 64, 191, 205–6Corelli, Arcangelo, 293Cornes, John Frederick (‘Jerry’), 31, 35–6Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Plate 6), xviii,

xl, 5, 9, 17, 20, 25, 502Coupland, Reginald, 120, 159, 163, 246–9Coward, Noel Pierce, 127

*Cox, Christopher William Machell (Plates 13, 15):in Ireland with IB (Plate 29), 50–3, 86–8, 409;meets Virginia Woolf, 70; and IB’sindignation over Trott’s defence of Nazis,84; dislikes Yeats, 86–7; and Shiela GrantDuff’s leaving Oxford, 89; and father’s death,111; in Vienna, 131; IB invites to lunch, 140;congratulates Pares on marriage, 159;behaviour, 210; as bogus middlebrow, 213;character, 220; relations with IB, 233; returnsto England, 245; political sympathies, 338;and IB’s intended return from US, 346; urgesIB to work in US, 357; Englishness, 379; andHart’s position at Oxford, 499, 534; describedby IB, 706

Cox, (Anthony) David Machell, 560Coy, (Albert) Wayne, 485Cranborne, Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-

Cecil, Viscount (later 5th Marquess ofSalisbury), 423, 683

Crawford, Captain, 425Creasey, John, 45 n1Creed, Richard Stephen, 338Creevey, Thomas, 436Cripps, Sir (Richard) Stafford: proposals for

constitutional reform, 83; Niebuhr offers tocontact for IB, 318; and Steinhardt, 321; andIB’s proposed visit to Moscow, 323–4, 326,329, 331, 334, 339, 343, 350 n2, 655; and DaphneStraight, 423; Wilson works for, 569; andPalestine question, 683; anti-Zionism, 688

Criterion ( journal), 5 n2, 22 n1Critical Quarterly (proposed magazine), 261

Crofton, Denis Hayes, 36Croker, John Wilson, 167 n3Croll, Mme (IB’s governess?), 122Cronin, Archibald Joseph, 194, 610Crooked Timber of Humanity, The (IB), 72 n4Crossman, Erika, 40 n3, 137, 224, 707

*Crossman, Richard (‘Dick’) Howard Stafford:appoints IB to lectureship, xl, 38; lives at theBarn, 40 n3, 245 n7; dines with VirginiaWoolf, 68–9; IB disparages, 110, 155, 576;quotes German in train, 111; as ActingWarden of New College, 115; lectures onwar guilt, 155; on Marx, 202; examines atOxford, 219; and Baker divorce case, 233;resigns Fellowship for political career, 233 n3,252; at New College, 533; IB’s view of, 707;Plato Today, 237

Crossman, Thomas Edward Stafford, 162*Crosthwaite, (Ponsonby) Moore: and IB’s

proposed travels, 46, 54; diplomatic dress,176; in Moscow, 428, 453, 473, 481–2, 550, 559,589, 592, 595, 625; IB describes, 707

Crosthwaite, Mrs (Moore’s mother), 156Crowther, Geoffrey, 528Cruikshank, John Augustus Cockburn, 31Cruikshank, Robert (‘Robin’) James:

acquaintance with Rumbold, 422; in US, 425;and IB’s illness, 431; and IB’s wish to returnto Britain, 457; IB refers W. J. Turner to, 535;writes letters to IB, 541, 545; fails to visit US,543; praises IB to Lady Daphne Straight, 545;and direction of BIS Survey, 549; offers postto IB, 580; and IB’s recommendation for UScorrespondent on Observer, 615–16

Cudahy, John Clarence, 336Cull, Nicholas, 309 n1, 503 n1Cullis, Winifred Clara, 380Curtin (British Embassy official in US), 501Curtis, Lionel George, 71, 159, 248–9, 289, 312–13,

457, 574Curtius, Ernst Robert, 172Cyrano de Bergerac, Savien, 533Czechoslovakia: 1938 crisis, 282, 285; future

considered in war, 421–2Czinner, Paul, 313 n2, 314

D-Day (6 June 1944), 494 n2Daily Telegraph, 112Daily Worker, 229 n1D’Albiac, John Henry, 361Dali, Gala, 150 n3Dali, Salvador, 150 n3, 153Dalton, (Edward) Hugh ( John Neale), 335, 688Dalyell, Tam, 711Dan, Fedor Il' ich (ne Fedor Ivanovich Gurvich),

506Dante Alighieri, 575D’Anthes, Baron George Charles, 578Darby, Samuel Leonard, 185, 255






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D’Arcy, Father Martin Cyril, 511Darlan, Admiral Jean Louis Xavier Francois, 420,

445Darvall, Frank Ongley, 503Darwin, Charles, 76Daumier, Honore, 148Davidson, Brian, 113Davidson, Howard William, 149Davies, Henry Whitcliffe (‘Bill’), 260Davies, Joseph Edward, 622Davis, Elmer Holmes, 421Davis, James John, 499Davison, John Armstrong, 502, 574Dawe, Roger David, xxixDawson, Geoffrey (ne Robinson; editor of

Times), 33, 158, 162, 289–90Day Lewis, Cecil: on Auden, 191; The Magnetic

Mountain, 191 n3; Thou Shell of Death (as‘Nicholas Blake’), 167

Day, Stephen Albion, 501Debater (school magazine), 5 n5, 6, 631 n1de Beer, Gavin Rylands, 289Deborin, Abram Moiseevich, 31Debussy, Claude, 272–3Denniston, John Dewar, 154 n6, 178, 287Descartes, Rene, 46, 78Desert Island Discs (radio programme), 480 n2determinism, 117de Valera, Eamon, 691Dewey, Thomas Edmund, 485, 499–500Dickens, Charles John Huffam, 125, 270, 338, 467,

608, 711Dickie, Alexander Hugh Hamon Massy, 23–4Diderot, Denis, 67, 278, 287Dieren, Bernard van, 167, 205; Down among the

Dead Men, 139, 205 n6Dilliard, Irving, 554D’Indy, (Paul-Marie-Theodore-)Vincent, 205Diplarakos, Aliki (later Russell), 562D’Israeli, Isaac: Curiosities of Literature, 285Dixon, Algernon Drew, 36Dobree, Bonamy: (ed.) From Anne to Victoria, 230Dodds, Eric Robinson, 154 n6, 177–8, 206, 338,

563, 565, 578Dodecanese, 562Dollfuss, Engelbert, 83 n4, 317Domagk, Gerhard, 410 n2Donaldson, Frances, Lady, 524 n1Donizetti, (Domenico) Gaetano (Maria): Don

Pasquale, 244 n7, 271; L’Elisir d’Amore, 232Donovan, General William Joseph (‘Wild Bill’),

421Dos Passos, John (Roderigo), 610Dostoevsky, Fedor Mikhailovich, 243, 255, 273,

278Douglas, Lord Alfred (‘Bosey’), 176 n2, 507 n3Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 501Douglas, James Alexandre Thomas, 290Douglas, Lady Patricia see Bendern, Lady

Patrica deDoukhan, Moses, 98, 101Droitwich, 90 n2Druck, David, 389–90, 394, 457, 470Dubinsky, David, 376Dublin, 277–8, 280–1Duclos, Jacques, 563Dudin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 605Dudley, Alan Alves, 351, 514, 527, 656, 722Duff, Shiela Grant see Grant Duff, ShielaDugdale, Blanche Elizabeth Campbell (nee

Balfour; ‘Baffy’), 249, 355 n1, 489, 682–3, 691Dumbarton Oaks, 464 n5, 482Dummett, Michael Anthony Eardley, xv, xxixDunbabin, Thomas James, 50, 211Dundas, Robert Hamilton, 210, 220, 338Dunedin, Andrew Graham Murray, Viscount,

50 n3Dunn, James Clement, 484Dunnett, George Sangster, 502Durbin, Evan Frank Mottram, 433, 647Durbrow, Elbridge, 621

Eckhart, Meister, 636Economist, The ( journal), 60, 528Edelbaum ( Jewish lecturer), 365Eden, (Robert) Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon):

marriage to Clarissa Churchill, 405 n2; visitsWashington, 431, 434, 436 n5; as ForeignSecretary, 434–5; and Weizmann, 440;personal qualities, 553; IB’s slight knowledgeof, 567; at Potsdam Conference, 582–3, 587

Eder, (Montague) David, 416 n3Eder, Edith (nee Low), 416Edmondson, (George) D’Arcy, 424Edmondson, Mrs D’Arcy, 424Edward VIII, King see Windsor, Edward, Duke

ofEgypt, 94, 104–5Einstein, Albert, 60 n2, 158 n4, 372, 430 n6Einzig, Paul: The World Economic Crisis, 1929–31,

640Eisenhower, Dwight David: and North African

landings, 420 n2, 422 nn2,5; and IrvingBerlin’s This is the Army, 478 n3

Eitingon family, 331Eitingon, Motty, 336Elath, Eliahu, 672el Gailani, Rashid Ali see Gailani, Rashid Ali elEliot, Thomas Stearns: IB sends Oxford Outlook

to, 22; IB meets, 85, 111; Spender on, 116; onBowra’s career, 135; and Group Theatre, 138;dramatic choruses, 165; maliciousness, 166;manner of answering questions, 195–6;believes in bleaching, 206; and Inez Pearn,217, 221; and Elizabeth Bowen, 226;Humphry House attacks, 262; at La Turbie,263; ‘Byron (1788–1824)’, 230; SweeneyAgonistes, 138






general index734

Ellis, (Henry) Havelock, 166Elman, Philip, 463Elmslie, William Gray, 331, 377Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 633Encyclopedie (and Encyclopaedists), 67Engelmann, Johann Christoff (ne Kaffka), 157Engels, Friedrich: IB reads, 43; in Willich’s

democratic army, 200; watched by Danishspies, 201; and International (The Hague,1872), 202

Ensor, Robert Charles Kirkwood, 82Erasmus, Desiderius, 633Erlanger, family d’, 264Erleigh, Lord see Reading, 2 nd Marquess ofErlich, Henryk, 431Esher, 2 nd Viscount see Brett, Reginald BaliolEsteva, Admiral Jean-Pierre, 420Etherington-Smith, (Raymond) Gordon Antony,

381Ettinghausen, David Richard, 292Ettinghausen, Vera (nee Schiff ), 183, 292Ettinghausen, Walter George (later Eytan), 9, 18,

94, 99, 101, 140, 143, 183, 292, 457Euripides, 634Ewing, Alfred Cyril, 497, 509–11Excambion, SS, 358 n2, 359Exeter College, Oxford, 552–3Exodus (immigrant ship), 689

Faber and Faber (publishers), 174; IB’s reportsfor, 638–53

Faber, Geoffrey Cust, 37, 187, 214Fairbanks, Douglas Elton Thomas Ulman, 30Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr, 30 n8Falk, (Werner) David, 322 n3, 331, 507, 529Falk, Mrs David, 322, 507Farouki, Abdul Majid Taji, 102 n10Farouki (Farugi), Ahmed Shukri, 102Farquharson, Arthur Spenser Loat (‘Farkie’), 250Farrar, Frederic William: Eric, or, Little by Little,

224 n4Fascism, 138, 145–6, 188Federation of Women Zionists, 93Fedotov (Gromyko’s assistant), 464Feiwel, Berthold, 93–4Feiwel, Sterna (nee Schneersohn), 95Felkin, (Arthur) Elliott, 498Felsenthal, Carol, 484 n1Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, 4Fesch, Willem de, 293Fet, Afanasy Afanasievich, 490Field, Marshall, 616Figgures, Frank Edward, 65Finch Hatton, Denys, 717Finkelstein, Tatjana, 317Finland, 615Finley, John Huston, Jr, 572Fischer-Williams, Jenifer see Williams, Jenifer

*Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens (Plate 10): as

Warden of New College, 50, 67; requests IBto write book on Marx, 67; entertainsVirginia Woolf, 68–70; marriage, 68 n6;absence on sick leave, 115 n3; attends concertwith IB, 123; and IB’s admiration forToscanini, 137; health breakdown, 163 n4, 171;and Bowra’s bid for Greek Chair, 173, 177;awarded Order of Merit, 228; urgesCrossman to enter politics, 233; on Kreisler,267; in Oxford, 284; on IB’s Karl Marx, 286;death and funeral, 298–301; in Cabinet, 503;IB’s view of, 707

*Fisher, Lettice: entertains Virginia Woolf atNew College, 68, 70–1; IB disparages, 80;holds undergraduate lunch parties, 139; offersto proof-read IB’s book, 265; and husband’sdeath, 301; proposes writing to Lord Halifax,304; and IB’s proposed visit to Moscow, 355;supports unmarried mothers, 380 n3; writesto IB in US, 392; Rosamond Coleridgedislikes, 456; IB sends regards to, 475

*Fisher, Mary Letitia Somerville (later Bennett;Plates 10, 16): in Ireland with IB, 50–1, 53,86–7; dines with Virginia Woolf, 68, 70;identifies John Sparrow, 69 n3; on SheilaShannon singing Frankie and Johnny, 92 n6; inParis, 112, 122, 209; in Salzburg (Plate 19), 131,139 n6; IB sees off to Dieppe, 133; IB invitesto lunch, 140; in Spain, 159, 163; in Rome,230 n8; and father’s death, 298–9; and IB’sproposed visit to Russia, 343; and IB’sintended return from US, 346, 348; writes toIB in US, 371, 389, 427, 524; and IB’s absencein US, 383, 455, 475, 539; and RosamondColeridge, 456; on Nancy Boult’s suicide,507; on Mendel Berlin, 705; on Sigle Lynd,712; on Rachel Walker, 719–20

Fisher, Admiral Sir William Wordsworth, 427Flaubert, Gustave, 182, 195, 227, 241, 243, 278,

285, 289Fleming, (Robert) Peter, 191, 251Fletcher, (Sir) Angus Somerville, 340–1, 350Fleuriau, Aime Joseph de, 152Florence, 111Floud, Bernard Francis Castle, 179‘Flying Tigers’ (American Volunteer Group in

China), 615, 703Flynn, Edward Joseph, 547Fontanny Dom (Plate 39), 611 n4Ford, Edward William Spencer, 13, 56Ford Foundation, xxxii, xliForeign Agents Registration Act (US, 1942),

425 n4Foreign Office Library, 519–20Foreign Office Research Department (FORD),

513–19, 537Forrestal, James Vincent, 486, 691Forster, Edward Morgan: IB reads, 161; on

Cardano, 167; political diffidence, 172;






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defeatism, 175; and Stephen Spender, 190;writes homosexual novel, 195; on similarities,212; IB wishes to meet, 241; IB’s views onwritings, 242–3, 273; not known in SovietUnion, 611; Abinger Harvest, 161 n1, 166, 212 n1

*Foster, John Galway: and Cassirer, 62; IB travelswith, 89, 94–6, 99, 104–5, 109; on Jews inPalestine, 119; stays with Rothschilds, 245;relations with Diana Hill, 283; and transfer ofmoney to IB in Bermuda, 315; in wartimeWashington, 318, 321–3, 325, 335, 339, 349, 351,366, 370, 372, 377, 381, 405, 424–5, 457;suspects Burgess, 319; and transfer of USdestroyers to Britain, 326; holiday inCalifornia, 331; letter-writing, 373; visits NewYork, 375; and Rex Benson, 393; visits IB inhospital, 412; and IB’s pneumonia, 432;return visit to England, 436, 457, 467, 469–70;and unrest in Palestine, 447; elected MP, 474;in Paris, 507; IB on character, 708

Four Essays on Liberty (IB), xliFowler, Thomas: Elements of Deductive Logic,

19 n4; Elements of Inductive Logic, 19 n4Foy Morgan & Co. (timber-brokers), 42Fradkin, Rivka, 629Fraenkel, Eduard David Mortier, 108–9, 112, 148,

220Fraenkel, Ruth, 245France: surrenders (1940), 307; IB despises

representatives in US, 339; and Alliedlandings in North Africa (1942), 420; politicalfuture considered in war, 421–2; excludedfrom Yalta Conference, 553 n3; see also Paris

France, Anatole (pseud. of Jacques AnatoleThibault), 152

Franco y Bahamonde, General Francisco, 188*Frankfurter, Felix: IB describes travels to, 104;

and IB’s views on Palestine, 105–8, 119–22;letter from Bousios, 108 n2; visits Oxford,178–80; on Bowra’s position at Harvard, 218,220, 229; IB visits on arrival in US, 318;suggests improving British propaganda inUS, 321; helps and entertains IB in US, 323,333, 335, 340–1, 348, 360, 369, 377, 395, 475, 485;appointment to Supreme Court, 326 n2;relations with Weizmann, 369, 399; attackedin Rodell article, 382, 388; and IB’spneumonia in New York, 407, 411; sendsRosenman to see IB, 447; acquires Bowra’sThe Heritage of Symbolism, 460; friendshipwith Cohns, 463 n1; IB reports on to parents,467, 470, 506, 530; view of Lippmann, 500;and Morgenthau’s wish to see IB, 523; andBowra’s From Virgil to Milton, 575; marriagerelations, 575; and Brandeis’s views onZionism, 665; friendship with Acheson, 668;and creation of Jewish State, 672, 674, 681–2,684; opposes British Palestine immigrationpolicy, 690; visited by von Trott, 719

*Frankfurter, Marion A. (nee Denman): IBdescribes travels to, 104; visits Oxford, 178–9;on Renee Ayer’s marriage difficulties, 252;life in US, 337; sends greetings to IB’sparents, 349, 493; friendship with IB in US,382, 475, 485; on Renee Ayer, 390; and IB’spneumonia in New York, 411; recommendsreligious maids, 455; appearance, 467, 470;marriage relations, 575

Frankie and Johnny (song), 92 n6Franks, Oliver Shewell, 502Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 317Franzblau, Mrs, 455Fraser, Lady, 408freedom: IB upholds, xl–xli, xliii; IB’s school

essay on, 631–7Freiligrath, (Hermann) Ferdinand, 202Fremantle, Anne(-Marie) Huth (nee Jackson),

453–5, 469, 473Fremantle, Christopher Evelyn, 453 n1Freshfields (solicitors), 23 n6Freud, Sigmund, 67, 79, 635Fried, Ferdinand see Zimmermann, (Ferdinand)

FriedrichFriedmann, Georges, 81–2Fry, Roger Eliot, 148, 163 n2, 174 n4Fuad I, King of Egypt, 94Fulford, Roger Thomas Baldwin, 404Fulton, John Scott, 44, 137

Gailani, Rashid Ali el, 373 n3Gaıte parisienne, La (Offenbach ballet), 279Gaitskell, Hugh and Evan Frank Mottram

Durbin: Wages and Labour Policy, 647–8Gallie, (Walter) Bryce, 157Gallie, Ian, 512Gallup, George Horace, 501Galton, Dorothy, 564–5Gambetta, Leon Michel, 437Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 11, 30, 341Gans, Eduard, 200Garbett, Cyril, Bishop of Winchester (later

Archbishop of York), 300 n2Garnett, Constance, 68 n2Garnett, David, 153Garrett, Alice Warder, 522Garrett, John Work, 522 n2Garvin, James Louis, 321, 374Gaster, Jack, 43 n6, 355 n2, 712Gaster, Maire see Lynd, MaireGaster, Moses, 430Gaster, Theodore Herzl, 333Gates, Sylvester Govett, 108, 577Gaulle, Charles de: and North African landings

(1942), 419, 420–2; on Yalta Conference,553 n3; and Duff Cooper in Paris, 575; Ben-Gurion admires, 673

Genee, Richard, 471 n3Geneen family, 316






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genius: IB defines, 531 n4Gentile, Giovanni, 118 n6George V, King: silver jubilee (1936), 117, 122 n5George, Stefan, 123–4, 242Germany: IB’s view of, 35; Jewish persecution

in, 54, 83, 689–90; advance in West (1940),304; military government in, 623; inZimmermann’s Ende des Kapitalismus, 639–42

Ghika, Niko, 714Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm, 168 n2Gibbs, Sir Philip, 168Gide, Andre, 172Gifford, Tony, 712Gilbert, William Schwenck, 127Gildesgame, Pierre, 363Gill, Eric, 244 n7Ginsberg, Mordecai Zalman (Shlomo), 96 n5Ginsburg, Simon, 629Ginzberg, Adele (nee Katzenstein), 370, 383Ginzberg, Louis, 370, 383Giraud, General Henri-Honore, 420–1, 442Girshman, Henrietta Leopoldovna (nee Leon),

495, 594Girshman, Vladimir Osipovich, 495 n6Gladstone, William Ewart, 456Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich: Ivan Susanin (A Life

for the Tsar), 603Gluck, Gustav Alois Julius, 707Gluckman, (Herman) Max, 149Godley family (of Rye, Westchester County),

345 n1Goebbels, (Paul) Joseph, 138, 306Goering, Hermann, 168Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 124, 242; Faust,

168; Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, 175Gogh, Vincent van, 635Gogol, Nikolay Vasil' evich, 470, 533Goldberg, Mrs, 95Goldberg, S., 470Goldman, Rabbi Solomon, 332 n2Goldmann, Nahum: IB writes memoir on,

306 n7; represents Jewish Agency in NewYork, 336; and Perlzweig, 350; discussesfuture of Palestine, 441, 443–5, 450, 676–7,687, 690; proposes to visit Russia, 476;supports Weizmann, 671

Goldstein, Rabbi Israel, 394, 442Goldston, L., 8Gollancz, Victor, 38 n5, 468Goodhart, Arthur Lehman, 169, 323 n6, 371–2,

523, 573Goodhart, Cecily, 169Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 323, 325, 330, 332,

345, 351Goodhart-Rendel, Harry Stuart, 186Goodman, Paul, 416 n1Goodman, Richard, 21 n5Goodman, Richard Hackett, 165Goodman, Romana (nee Manczyk), 416

Goodrich, Carter, 384Gordon, J. (Palestine guide), 105Gore-Booth, Paul Henry, 84 n1, 434Gorsky, Anatoly Veniaminovich see Gromov,

Anatoly BorisovichGottingen: University centenary celebrations,

249Gouzenko, Igor, 625 n4Goya y Lucientes, Francisco, 148Gozzoli, Benozzo di Lese di Sandro, 147Graham, Katherine (‘Kay’), 485 n7Graham, Philip Leslie, 381, 485 n7, 486Graham-Harrison, Francis Laurence, 205, 256Grand, Colonel Laurence, 335 n2

*Grant Duff, Shiela (later Newsome, thenSokolov Grant; Plate 26): IB’s relations with,40, 232 n4, 260; reads philosophy at Oxford,43–4; relations with Goronwy Rees, 48–9,57–60, 75, 171 n2, 224; in Salzburg, 57–9;graduates, 89; and IB’s views on Adam vonTrott, 91; visits IB in Oxford, 126; in Prague,231; as cousin of Anne Fremantle, 453;daughter, 453; marriage, 469; Europe and theCzechs, 285; The Parting of Ways, 285 n5

Granville-Barker, Harley, 535Graves, Elizabeth Leila Millicent (‘Sally’; later

Chilver), 60 n1, 133, 161–2, 211, 221, 227, 239,245, 305

Greats, xviiiGreece: post-war civil war in, 547–8Greeley, Horace, 483Green, Thomas Hill, 78Greene, Sir Wilfred Arthur, 1st Baron, 335, 372,

388–9Greenwood, Walter, 611Grier, (Mary) Lynda Dorothea, 57 n2, 250Griffith, Arthur, 691Griffith, John Godfrey, 185Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey, 167Grimond, Jo(seph), 185 n1Gromov, Anatoly Borisovich (Anatoly

Veniaminovich Gorsky), 506, 551 n8Gromyko, Andrey Andreevich, 463Gromyko, Lidiya Dmitrievna (nee Grinevich),

464Grossinger, Jennie, 410 n3Group Theatre, 137Grubb, Kenneth, 424, 527Grundy, George Beardoe, 5, 23; Thucydides and

the History of his Age, 501Guffey, Joseph Finch, 487Guillaume, James: Karl Marx, 201Guinness, Bryan, 135Gumilev, Lev Nikolaevich, 609Gumilev, Nikolay Stepanovich, 609 n2Gundolf, Friedrich, 123Gunnis, Rupert, 117, 136Gunzbourg, Paul, 495Gurary, Rav Shemaryahu (‘Rashag’), 364






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Gusev, Fedor Tarasovich, 464

Haag, Luiza (Alexander Herzen’s mother), xixn2Ha’am, Ahad (Asher Hirsch Ginsberg), 96Haden-Guest, Leslie, 416 n3Hadow, Robert Henry, 554Haffner, Carl, 471 n3Haganah, 690Hague, The, 48Hale, Lionel Ramsay, 270Halevy, Elie, 128 n1Halevy, Eliezer, 10–11Halevy, Ephraim, 10 n2Halifax, Dorothy Evelyn Augusta, Countess of

(nee Onslow), 382, 427, 500Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st

Earl of: dispatches from Washington, xxiv,419; mistakes Hitler for doorman, 282 n2; IBwrites to offering services, 302; and IB’s visitto Moscow, 312, 570; as ambassador inWashington, 361, 382, 405; disapproves ofFoster, 381; remoteness, 382–3, 427; sons’death and crippling, 417, 419, 427; IB luncheswith, 427; and Palestine question, 447, 676–7;Lydia Keynes interrupts, 500; reluctance torelease IB, 506, 521, 523, 527, 529, 537, 539,542, 544–5; and Boothby, 546; and ClarkKerr’s invitation to IB, 550; and All SoulsFellowships, 560; and IB’s attendance atPotsdam Conference, 582; on Byrnes, 621;Clark Kerr succeeds in Washington, 624 n1;lacks interest in Palestine, 668; Weizmann’srelations with, 671

Hall, Donald John, 375, 434, 442, 457, 466–7, 515,518, 520–1

Hall, John Hathorn, 95 n4Hall, Laura Margaret, 380Hall, Sir Noel Frederick, 435Hall, Robert Lowe (later Baron Roberthall),

380 n2Halpern, Alexander Yakovlevich, 363 n1, 366, 493Halpern, Barbara see Strachey, BarbaraHalpern, Georg Gad, 57, 93, 429Halpern, Salome: IB’s memoir of, 363 n1, 366 n3Halpern, Wolf Abiram (‘Abe’), 18, 56–7, 314, 317;

death, 429*Hampshire, Stuart Newton: in Paris with IB, 91;

given painting of IB as child, 147 n5; startsFrench society, 150 n3; IB likes forpriggishness, 181; first-class degree, 185; inIreland with IB (Plate 20), 191–2; Rowse on,198; and Rosamond Lehmann, 203, 209;invited to meet Spender, 205; attemptsFellowship exam at All Souls, 207 n1, 213;philosophical views, 208; on ElizabethBowen’s planned trip to Japan, 215; IBinvites to tea with Elizabeth Bowen, 226;character and behaviour, 227, 230; nicknames(‘the Gazelle’, ‘Hants’), 227; attends Austin–

IB philosophical discussions, 233; relationsand marriage with Renee Ayer, 238–40, 284,305, 344, 395; recommends IB read HenryJames, 241; relations with Elizabeth Bowen,245; IB praises, 252; praises IB’s cloak, 256; inSalzburg, 256–8; and Cressida BonhamCarter, 257; Ben Nicolson and, 259; sinusitis,264; IB meets on return from Ireland, 284;war service, 305, 344, 388; in West Africa,460; position at Oxford, 498; rejected byBalliol, 565–7, 571, 576; IB helps with careerprospects, 566–8, 571, 576–7; Marie Berlin’sliking for, 704; lodges with Hutchinson andNicolson, 711; friendship with Ridley, 714

Hampstead: map, 4Hancock, (William) Keith, 560Hannegan, Robert Emmet, 556Hardie, Colin Graham, 100, 710

*Hardie, William Francis (‘Frank’) Ross: atOxford with IB, 22–4; and IB’s offer ofManchester Guardian post, 28, 33–4; mimicsA. C. Clark, 31 n7; IB finds boring, 38;encourages IB at Oxford, 41; and IB’s AllSouls Fellowship, 42; disparages Fulton, 44;and P. S. Allen’s need for blood, 50; inSalzburg, 100, 258; IB sees in Oxford, 129; onGiles Robertson, 184; on Blakeway’s death,210; and IB’s proposed visit to Gottingen,250; examines at Oxford, 260; Wallace and,274; and Hart, 510; IB’s gratitude to, 709–10;Urmson on, 710

Harding, Warren Gamaliel, 441, 627Hardy, Godfrey Harold, 157, 575 n7Harlech, Beatrice, Lady (nee Lady Beatrice

Cecil), 177 n4Harlech, William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore,

4th Baron, 177, 248–9, 301, 322Harman, Avraham, 143Harriman, William Averell, 618 n1, 629Harrod, Frances Marie Desiree (nee Forbes-

Robertson; Roy Harrod’s mother), 55, 58*Harrod, (Henry) Roy Forbes: holiday in

Portofino with IB, 55, 58; in Oxford, 90, 251;and Bousios’s letter to Frankfurter, 108;corresponds with Marie Stopes, 110; admiresLindemann, 167, 175; writing, 172; politicalviews, 174; attacks Dean of Christ Church,177; in court for trial of Basil Murray, 179;parties, 206; attends Blakeway’s memorialservice, 211; on abdication, 218; writes toBowra in US, 225; Senhouse disparages, 238;indecisiveness, 239; drinking, 251, 267; onAyer’s life in England, 460; and Hampshire’scareer prospects, 568; stands for Parliament,574; friends, 710; on A. H. Smith, 716

Harrod, Wilhelmina (‘Billa’), 267, 338, 710*Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus (Plate 16): at

Urquhart’s chalet (Plate 13), 58 n3; marriage






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Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus (cont.):to Jenifer, 113 n5; holiday with Eve Kisch,203 n2; and Peggy Jay, 221; IB invites toopera, 272; IB imagines in US setting, 339;and IB’s view of moral questions, 497–8;position at Oxford, 497–8; IB recommendsfor philosophy post at New College, 509–12;appointed to Fellowship at New College,529, 533–4, 567, 576; and W. O. Hart, 572;pitied by Marie Berlin, 704

Hart, Jenifer see Williams, JeniferHart, William Ogden, 572Harvard University, 182, 218, 220, 229, 253, 328,

367, 457, 482Harvey, Oliver, Baron, 668Hatch, Carl Atwood, 554, 557Hauser, Dr Edwin T., 406, 410, 418Haydn, (Franz) Josef, 236Hayek, Friedrich August von: The Road to

Serfdom, 540–1, 543Hayter, William Goodenough, 434, 438, 442–3,

445, 448, 477, 583Hayward, John Davy, 214, 218, 226, 230, 238Hazel, Alfred Ernest William, 250Hazlitt, Henry Stuart, 541Hazlitt, William, xixHeadlam, Rt Revd Arthur Cayley, Bishop of

Gloucester, 163, 388–9Headlam Morley, Agnes, 135, 260–1Heard, Henry Fitzgerald (‘Gerald’), 172Heath, Archie Edward, 137Heathcoat Amory, (Margaret Irene) Gaenor, 330Heathcoat Amory, Richard Frank, 330 n4Heaton, Constance Irene (nee Wheeler-Bennett),

491 n4Heaton, Trevor Braby, 491Hedgehog and the Fox, The (IB), xli, 42 n3, 531 n1,

714Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 43, 202, 652Heger, Robert, 26Heifetz, Jascha, 10, 470 n3, 580Heilperin, Mich(a)el Angelo, 57Heine, (Christian Johann) Heinrich (ne Harry),

154, 202, 469Helvetius, Claude Adrien, 67Hemingway, Ernest Miller, 153, 610; The Sun Also

Rises, 482 n1Henderson, Charles Gordon, 23, 49, 60 & n4, 64Henderson, Henry Ludwig, 207, 219, 222Henderson, (Mary) Isobel (nee Monro), 23 n5,

60 n4, 118 n6Henderson, John F., 199, 271Henniker Heaton, Peter Joseph, 24Herbert, Alan Patrick: The Trials of Topsy, 138Hermes, Gertud: Die geistige Gestalt des

Marxistischen Arbeiters und dieArbeiterbildungsfrage, 296 n4

Herriot, Edouard, 420Hershey, Major-General Lewis Blaine, 421Hertz, Daniel Henry: death, 197

Hertz, Joseph Herman (Chief Rabbi), 42, 197Herwegh, Georg, 200Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich, xxxiv, 68, 239, 259,

261–2, 278–81, 287, 378, 531Herzl, Theodor, 674Herzog, Jacob, 663, 692–3Hess, Moses, 200, 202Hess, Rudolf, 559, 595, 694 nHichens, William Lionel, 322highbrows: defined, 211–13Highet, Gilbert Arthur, 576Hill, ( John Edward) Christopher, 339, 514, 563,

569, 579Hill, Diana, 283 n2Hill, George, 136 n4Hillman, Sidney, 376Hilton, John Robert, xxii; friendship with

MacNeice, 20; wins John Locke Scholarship,22; in Cyprus, 117 & n1; probationterminates, 136; Mrs Beazley’s infatuationwith, 147; IB visits, 189

Hilton, Margaret (Peggy) Frances (neeStephens), 20 n4, 189, 276

Hindenberg, Field Marshal Paul Ludwig HansAnton von Beneckendorf und von, 491

Hiroshima, 583Hirschman, Mme see Girshman, Henrietta

LeopoldovnaHitler, Adolf: assassination attempt on, 40 n2,

717; anti-Jewish policy, 54 n1, 60 n2; censorsMarx–Engels Ausgabe, 115; occupiesRhineland, 158; Chamberlain meets, 282; andappeasement policy, 289; attacks SovietUnion, 595; von Trott on, 719

Hobson, Dr Frederick Greig, 140, 408Hodgkin, Edward (‘Teddy’) Christian, 55, 58,

245 n7*Hodgkin, Thomas Lionel: holiday in Portofino

with IB, 55, 58; relations with Maire Lynd,56 n5, 58, 101; fails election to All SoulsFellowship, 64; in Egypt, Palestine andTransjordan, 89, 96, 98, 105, 119; and vonTrott, 89; IB describes, 710

Hodson, Henry (‘Harry’) Vincent, 490, 703, 715Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus, 531Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 239, 429 n8Hofmannsthal, Raimund von, 429Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d’, 67Holderlin ( Johann Christian) Friedrich, 132Holdstein, Sophie, 333, 351–2, 526Holdstein, Walter, 333, 336, 349, 351–2, 364, 429,

431, 526, 539Holdsworth, Sir William Searle, 90Holland, 47–8, 79Hollycroft Avenue, Hampstead, 253, 348; map, 4;

No 49 (the Berlins’ home from 1928; Plate5), 80

Hollywood, 483Holmes, Jesse Holman, 421






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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr, 511Holstein, Friedrich von, 465Honduras, 306 n1Hooker, Robert G., 491Hoover, Herbert, 620 n2Hoover Institution Library, Stanford University,

California, 620Hope, Alison see Blakeway, AlisonHopkins, Gerard Manley, 92, 196Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 437, 500, 521, 557, 677Hopkins, Louise (nee Macy), 500Hopkinson, David, 63 n2Hore-Belisha, (Isaac) Leslie, 250, 423Horowitz, Vladimir, 368, 580Horowitz, Wanda (nee Toscanini), 368 n6Hoskins, Col. Harold B., 444, 493–4Hourani, Albert Habib, 213 n2, 292–3, 340, 348, 371,

373*House, (Arthur) Humphry: on Goronwy Rees’s

first novel, 38; reads Lawrence’s Apocalypse, 39;suggests IB visit Elizabeth Bowen in Ireland,51–2; infatuation with Maire Lynd, 52 n1; ascandidate for All Souls Fellowship, 62, 65; inExeter, 71–2; marriage, 80; IB visits in Devon,85; in Belfast, 87; journeys to India, 155, 192;character, 181; view of Rees, 182; politicalviews, 189; at Bowen’s Court, 288; militaryservice, 357; IB’s memory of, 711; ‘I spy with mylittle eye’, 262; The Note-Books and Papers ofGerard Manley Hopkins, 226

House, Madeline, see Church, MadelineHow, Frederick Walter (Plate 13), 59 n3Howard, John Eldred, 221 n3Howitt, Arthur, 9Hubback, Diana Mary (later Hopkinson; Plate 25):

friendship with IB, 63, 126, 148; birthday party,73–4; and IB’s indignation over Nazipersecution of Jews, 85; on Spender absence inYugoslavia, 123; support for von Trott, 718; TheIncense-Tree, 75

Huberman, Bronislaw, 368Hudson, Geoffrey Francis, 63, 290Hugo, Victor, 125, 165, 241Hull, Cordell, 421, 446–50, 488, 661, 668, 683Hultin, Barbara see Strachey, BarbaraHultin, Olav, 56 n6Hume, David, 49, 78, 116 n2, 224, 253Hurley, Patrick Jay, 448

*Hutchinson, Jeremy Nicolas St John: at Oxfordwith Ben Nicolson, 153; degree, 185; visits IB,209; in Karlsbad with Ben Nicolson, 279;relationship to Rothschild family, 714

Hutchinson, Mary Barnes, 195, 260, 711, 714Hutton, (David) Graham, 433, 465 n4, 499, 545, 616Huxley, Aldous Leonard: vision of ideal world, 145;

defeatism, 175; pacifism, 188, 191; Walpolepraises, 194; stays with Rothschilds, 215–17, 222;IB on, 216–17, 222; Brave New World, 139 n1;Eyeless in Gaza, 172–3, 191 n6; What are you going

to do about it?, 191 n4Huxley, Thomas Henry, 76, 634Huysmans, Joris Karl (ne Charles-Marie-Georges),

173Hyde, Douglas, 283Hyndman, Henry Mayers, 76Hyndman, Thomas Arthur Rowett (‘Tony’), 76, 92,

118, 126, 128, 132, 141–2, 338

Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, 675, 688Ickes, Harold LeClair, 439, 553Ignatieff, Michael: Isaiah Berlin: A Life, xvi, xxv, 15Iliffe, John Henry, 99Ilinska, Countess Fira (nee Benenson), 411Ilinsky, Count Janusz, 411Inber, Vera Mikhailovna, 603‘Induction and Hypothesis’ (IB), 231 n3Innes (British Embassy official), 358International Bank for Reconstruction and

Development, 543 n1International Labor Organization (ILO), 383–4International Monetary Fund, 543 n1Iran (Persia), 621, 624Iraq: wartime rebellion, 373–4Ireland: IB visits, 50–4, 86–8, 176, 191–2, 276–81, 283;

IB contracts pneumonia in, 404, 409–10Irgun Zvei Leumi, 690–1Irwin, Alice B. (one of IB’s Washington

secretaries), 366, 381, 385, 426Isherwood, Christopher William Bradley-:

Walpole praises, 194–5; relations with HeinzNeddermeyer, 237 n2; emigrates to US, 306; TheDog Beneath the Skin (with Auden), 127; Lionsand Shadows, 270; Mr Norris Changes Trains, 126

Israel: founded, 687, 691–2; see also PalestineIstorik (general manager of Zionist Bank), 363, 368,

383Italy: IB travels in, 231–2, 625

Jabotinsky, Ze’ev/Vladimir, 124 n4, 332Jacob Herzog Memorial Lecture, xxv, 663Jaffe (Yaffe), Leib, 551Jakobson, Roman Osipovich, 564–5, 577–8James, Henry: IB reads, 80, 241; Spender on, 116,

124–5; MacCarthy on, 124; and Europeanmythology, 152; Gertrude Stein on, 153; sense ofdestruction in, 175; Walpole and, 194–5, 206;emotional strength, 239; IB’s views on writings,241–3, 273, 278, 320; on drawing rooms ofEurope, 254; IB’s antipathy to, 255; allusivestyle, 282; The Aspern Papers, 231–2; TheAwkward Age, 134

James, Henry (1879–1947), 579James, William, 78Janin, Rene, 613 n1Japan: invades Manchuria, 36; attacks Pearl

Harbor, 386 n2; defeated (1945), 583*Jay, Douglas Patrick Thomas: and Shiela Grant

Duff, 48–9, 232–3; writes on ‘Brown Book’, 60;






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Jay, Douglas (cont.):cat, 77–8; writing, 144; on excursion with IB,150; and Goronwy Rees, 151; IB dines with, 199;on staff of The Economist, 199 n7; career, 221;laugh, 224; predicts slump, 264; singing, 271;visits IB, 271; visits French Riviera, 295; IBimagines in US setting, 339; IB’s views of, 711–12

Jay, Margaret (‘Peggy’; nee Garnett), 48 n4, 78, 113,151, 221, 233, 271, 339, 711

Jay, Mary (widow of Douglas), 711Jebb, (Hubert Miles) Gladwyn (later Baron

Gladwyn), 312, 318, 350 n2, 515, 520, 537, 577, 618,654

Jenks, Mr, 144Jerusalem, 94–8, 138, 173Jevons, William Stanley: Elementary Lessons in

Logic: Deductive and Inductive, 19 n4Jewish Agency see World Zionist OrganisationJewish Brigade Group (British Army), 355 n1Jewish Chronicle: on IB’s appointment to All Souls

Fellowship, 42Jewish Morning Journal, 389Jewish Society (Oxford), 142Jews: persecuted by Nazis, 54 n, 60 n2, 83–4, 158 n4;

long historical vistas, 152; status in Palestine,246–7; in US, 375–6, 474, 665–6, 672;dependence on Allied victory, 376; cases heardin New York Court, 394–5; and outcome ofSecond World War, 680; killed in Nazi deathcamps, 689–90; see also Zionism

Joachim, Elisabeth, 275, 712Joachim, Harold Henry, 117, 137, 275–6Joad, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson, 125, 650, 652John of the Cross, St (ne Juan de Yepes y Alvarez),

113, 273Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 522, 526, 528,

544Jones, David, 244 n7Jones, Jack, 388Joseph, Bernard (later Dov), 361Joseph, Horace William Brindley, 39, 43, 290, 300,

338, 470, 475, 497, 512Joseph Karl, Archduke of Austria, 59Jowett Society, 150 n3Jowitt, William Allen, Earl, 683Joyce, James, 609Judson, J. Alan, 374, 423, 661Juvenal: Satires, 636 n1

Kafka, Franz, 125, 175, 242, 268, 272–3; ‘The GreatWall of China’, 272

Kahana, Uriel, 39Kahn, Derek see Blaikie, DerekKaiser, Henry J., 483Kallen, Horace, 682Kane, Richmond Keith, 486Kant, Immanuel: on a priori categories, 49; on

‘crooked timber of humanity’, 72; tender-mindedness, 78; Robinson fails to read, 186;IB’s attitude to, 534

Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (IB): xl, xli, 296,468 n5, 715; see also Marx, Karl

Karlsbad, 279Katkov, George (Georgy Mikhailovich), 340Katzman, Charles, 147, 156, 185Keats, John, 167, 230Kennan, George Frost, 623Kensington: Royal Palace Hotel, 8Kent, Ala, 461Ker, Alan, 68Keren Hayesod, 93Kerensky, Aleksandr Fedorovich, 424Kettaneh, Francis A., 440Keyes, Herbert Morgan Roger, 340Keynes, John Maynard, Baron: ill health, 251–2;

conversation with Denniston, 287–8; financialviews, 343; in wartime US, 372, 377, 500; andHampshire’s career prospects, 568–9; andPalestine question, 683

Keynes, Lydia, Lady (nee Lopokhova), 500Khachaturyan, Aram Il' ich: Gayaneh (ballet), 603Khlebnikov, Viktor Vladimirovich (‘Velemir’), 577Khodasevich, Vladislav Felitsianovich, 551King, Alexander, 457King, (William Lyon) Mackenzie, 467 n1Kingdon, Henry Paul, 24Kintner, Robert Edmonds, 615Kisch, Eve(lyn) Myra, 110, 203Klemperer, Otto, 49Kluckhohn, Clyde Kay Mayben, 27, 79Knoop, Guitou, 461Knopf, Blanche Wolf, 468Knox, William, 486 n2Koeningstein, Francois Claudius (‘Ravachol’), 261Koestler, Arthur, 579Konikov, N., 550 n2Konovalov, Sergey Aleksandrovich, 564–5, 577–8Kook, Hillel see Bergson, PeterKopler, Heinz/Henry, 211Korda, Sir Alexander, 480, 542, 571, 611 n1Korner, Eric (ne Erich Korner), 551Kosatzky, Richard von, 59Kosatzky, Frau Richard von, 66Koussevitzky, Serge (ne Sergey Aleksandrovich),

495Kramaszky ( Jewish merchant), 429Kraus, Arthur James Israel, 69Kreisler, Fritz, 148 n3, 266Krock, Arthur, 327, 328, 485, 554, 628Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, 218Kuhn, Ferdinand, Jr, 543Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich, 595

Labour Party: election victory (1945), 583, 594; andPalestine question, 688

Laffan, Robert George Dalrymple, 339La Follette, Robert Marion, 554La Follette, Robert Marion, Jr, 554 n9Laird, John, 512






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Lake District, 193Lalande, Andre, 112Lamberg, Count (Karl) Ottomar Konstantin Anton

Raimund Michael, 29Lamberg, Countess, 29, 32Lambert, Baron Henri, 561 n1, 571 n2Lambert, Baroness Johanna (‘Hansi’) von

Reininghaus, 561, 571 n2Lambert, Baron Leon Jean Gustave Samuel, 571La Motte, Digby, 7Lampert, Catherine (nee Ridley), 366 n5Lampert, Genia, 366 n5Landau, Jacob, 476–7, 527Lane, George (ne Lanyi), 246 n1, 470 n2, 714Lane, Miriam see Rothschild, MiriamLang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury,

65Lansdowne, George John Charles Mercer Nairne

Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of, 488 n1Lascelles, Sir Alan Frederick, 524Laski, Harold Joseph, 67, 179 n3, 321, 383Laski, Marghanita (later Howard), 221Laski, Neville Jonas, 222Lassalle, Ferdinand, 68, 200–2Latham, Thomas Edwin, 339Laughton, Charles, 262Lauterpacht, Hersch, 370, 393Lauterpacht, Rachel (nee Steinberg), 370, 409, 411Laval, Pierre, 422Law, Richard Kidston (later 1st Baron Coleraine),

435, 466, 467, 496, 522, 567, 577Lawley, Susan (‘Sue’), 480 n2Lawrence, Sir Alexander (Waldemar), 134Lawrence, David Herbert, 123, 125, 539, 704;

Apocalypse, 39; The Plumed Serpent, 539Lawrence, John Waldemar, 605Lawrence, Thomas Edward, 125, 191Layton, Walter Thomas, 60Leaf, Mrs John G., 504Leaning, W. John, 465Lear, Edward, 481Leeper, Reginald (‘Rex’) Wildig Allen, 547Leeson, Spencer, 210Legg, Leopold George Wickham, 298, 300, 380Lehman, Herbert Henry: IB meets, 362–3, 375;

works in UNRRA, 474; and Zionism, 672, 681*Lehmann, Rosamond Nina: affair with Goronwy

Rees, 192, 198; IB’s liking for, 192; Walpolepraises, 194; Stuart Hampshire and, 203, 209; IBinvites to lunch, 205, 220; IB’s changed view of,210, 215; Rosamond Lehmann’s Album, 193 n1

Leibowitz, Nechama, 98 n4Leibowitz, Yeshayahu, 98Lejeune, Caroline Alice, 644Lenanton, Gerald, 506Lenanton, William Ray, 42Lend-Lease agreement (US–British), 361 n6, 367,

401, 449, 659–60Lenin, Vladimir Il' ich, 118, 119 n1, 424

Leningrad (Petrograd; St Petersburg): IB’schildhood in, xxxix; IB visits, 593–5, 597,599–612, 615; map, 598; siege, 599, 606–7;conditions, 601–4; literary scene, 605–12

Leonardo da Vinci, 633Lepper, Francis (‘Frank’) Alfred, 185‘Lev Tolstoy’s Historical Scepticism’ (article by

IB), xixLevin, Shmarya, 93, 96–8, 121, 129Levine, Revd Ephraim, 142Levitt, Joseph E., 316Lewis, Clarence Irving, 208, 252; Mind and the World

Order, 152 n1Lewis, Clive Staples, 68, 70Lewis, John Llewellyn, 384, 543Lewis, Sinclair, 374 n2Lewis, Sir Willmott Harsant, 481Lewis, Wyndham: Hitler, 641Lexa von Aerenthal, Count see Aerenthal, Count

Lexa vonLiberman, Alexander, 364, 504 n1Liberman, Simon Isaevich, 364 n1, 504, 525liberty, see freedomLiebermann, Judith (nee Berlin), 429Liebermann, Saul, 429 n2Lightfoot, Revd Robert Henry, 130, 230, 358, 380,

470, 475, 496Ligne, Henri, Prince de, 508 n2Lilienthal, David, 555Lincoln, F(redman) Ashe, 316Lincoln, Reuben and Fanny, 316–17Lindbergh, Anne Spencer Morrow, 336, 528 n5Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, 336, 528 n5Lindemann, Frederick Alexander (later Viscount

Cherwell), 166, 174–5Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop, 159 n1, 179, 250, 296,

298, 305, 513 n1Lindsay, Erica (nee Storr), 159Linstead, Sir Patrick, 380 n8Lion, Aline Augusta, 118Lippmann, Walter, 499–500, 557, 615–16, 622, 628Lipsky, Louis, 360, 671Literary Gazette (Moscow journal), 6–8Litvin, Natasha (later Spender), 244 n2, 371, 717Litvinov, Maksim Maksimovich, 463 n3Llewellin, Col. John Jestyn, 436, 542Lloyd, George Ambrose, 1st Baron Lloyd of

Dolobran, 345, 355Lloyd George, David, 300, 302Lloyd-Jones, Hugh: (ed.) Maurice Bowra: A

Celebration, xliin1Locarno, Treaty of (1925), 158 n3Locke, John, 634Locker, Berl, 451Locker-Lampson, Commander Oliver Stillingfleet,

158Lockhart, John Gibson, 167Logan, Andy (nee Isabel Ann Logan), 508logical positivism, 117, 160, 164, 208 n5, 497, 510






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London Library, The, 68, 392London Mercury, 126Longden, Robert (‘Bobby’) Paton, 225Longford, Countess of see Pakenham, ElizabethLongford, 7th Earl of, see Pakenham, FrancisLongworth, Alice Lee Roosevelt, 484, 532 n1, 548Longworth, Nicholas, 484 n1Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of: as

ambassador in US, 309, 318, 321, 323, 325, 335, 339;interest in New College Wardenship, 322; onIB’s proposed 1940 visit to USSR, 324–5; visit toEngland, 353; death, 361 n5, 372

Lourie, Arthur, 368Lourie, Arthur Vincent (ne Artur Sergeevich

Lur' e), 495Lowe, Elias Avery, 372Lowe, Revd John, 576Lubavitch(er), 364 n2, 429 n3Lubbock, Sir John, 76–7Lucas, Scott Wike, 501Luce, Clare Boothe, 628Luce, Henry Robinson, 584, 628 n5Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasil' evich, 119 n1Lvov, Prince Georgy Evgenievich, 424

*Lynd, Maire/Moira (‘BJ’; later Gaster; Plates 16,24): IB teaches at Oxford, 43, 93; in Ireland withIB (Plate 29), 50–3, 86–7; in Portofino with IB,55; state of mind, 60; dines with VirginiaWoolf, 68, 70–1, 79; and IB’s inadvertent‘kleptomania’, 75; interest in G. M. Hopkins,92; turns Communist, 92; and death ofChristopher Cox’s father, 111; and mother’ssuperstitions, 111; in Salzburg (Plate 19), 131–2,139 n6; admires Spender, 133; IB’s attachmentto, 133–4; Bryan Guinness and, 134; works atHeinemann publishers, 162; onundergraduates, 189; and Christopher Cox’svisit to England, 246; political sympathies, 338;and IB’s wartime appointment in US, 354 n1;marriage to Gaster, 355 n2, 430 n8; family andcharacter, 712

Lynd, Robert, 80 n2, 103, 712*Lynd, Sigle/Sheila (later Wheeler; Plate 23):

marriage, 38 n5; in Oxford, 38; works atGollancz, 38 n5, 87 n3; appearance, 45, 712; andShiela Grant Duff, 48; in Portofino with IB, 55;relations with Thomas Hodgkin, 56 n, 58; andBJ’s relations with Thomas Hodgkin, 58;frightened by E. Bowen’s The Cat Jumps, 88;and IB in Salzburg, 100; on Salzburg, 118; onCommunist Party, 167; IB sends to Toscaniniconcert with Spender, 237; family, 712

Lynd, Sylvia (nee Dryhurst), 80, 111; EnglishChildren, 535 n1, 712

Lys, Francis John, 56Lyttelton, Oliver (later 1st Viscount Chandos), 542,

553, 568 n4

Mabbott, John David, 511

MacArthur, General Douglas, 691Macartney, Carlile Aylmer, 260Macartney, Nedella (nee Mamarchev), 260 n6Macaulay, (Emilie) Rose, 226, 227Macaulay, Isobel (later Hardie), 709Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron, 145–6Macbeth, Dr Ronald Graeme, 223McCallum, Ronald Buchanan, 300, 338, 388MacCarthy, Desmond, 124–5, 158, 166, 306, 706MacColl, Rene, 425 n9McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 476MacDonald, Margaret, 160 n5McDonnell, Angus, 425McDougall (unidentified), 575McGeachy, (Mary Agnes) Craig, 399, 424, 428, 466,

474, 524Macgregor, David Hutchinson, 227MacIver, Arthur Milne, 576Mack, (William) Henry Bradshaw, 422Mackay, Ian, 618 n2McKellar, Kenneth Douglas, 555Mackenzie, Archibald Robert Kerr, 460, 503, 508,

514, 524, 527–8, 542, 546, 581, 661Mackenzie, Grant, 424, 527McKim, Edward Daniel, 556MacKinnon, Donald MacKenzie, 233, 498, 576Maclagan, William Gauld, 498, 568McLaren, Martin, 186Maclean, Donald, 318 n2, 532, 533Maclean, Fitzroy Hew Royle (later 1st Baronet),

319, 325, 329, 334MacLeish, Archibald, 327, 342, 492, 500, 541, 544, 578MacMichael, Sir Harold Alfred, 675McMillan, John, 162Macnabb, Donald George Cecil, 233, 498MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis: in Oxford, 20, 88;

poetry, 118; wife elopes with Katzman, 155–6;moves to US, 306; Letters from Iceland (withAuden), 88 n2

McNutt, Paul Vories, 421McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis, 118Madge, Charles, 217 n3Maenchen-Helfen, Otto see Nicolaievsky, Boris

and Otto Maenchen-HelfenMagowan, John Hall, 435–6Mahler, Gustav, 266Maitland, Frederic William and Florence (nee

Fisher), 371 n2Major, Prudence (later Wallace), 720Makins, Roger Mellor (later 1st Baron Sherfield),

384, 515, 517, 520, 543, 545, 568, 577, 624Makinsky, Alexander (Prince), 562Makinsky, Kyrill Khan, 562Makinsky, Pasha (Paul) Khan, 562 n1Malcolm, Angus Christian Edward, 438Malcolm, Dougal Orme, 119Malebranche, Nicolas, 72Mallet, William Ivo, 567Malraux, Andre, 172, 175, 181, 189, 192; La Condition






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humaine, 182 n1; L’Espoir, 269Manchester Guardian, xl, 28, 33–6, 83, 89, 718Manchuria, 36Mangeot, Andre, 270Mangeot, Olive, 270 n1Mannin, Ethel Edith (later Reynolds), 277 n2Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, 230Markham, Felix Maurice Hippisley, 38, 65Markovna, Frida, 54Marks, Michael, 416 n2Marmorstein, Emil, 94–5, 348Marschak, Jacob, 236, 351, 367Marshak, Samuil Yakovlevich, 573Marshall, Alfred: Industry and Trade, 75Marshall, General George Catlett, 683, 691Marshall Plan Conference (Paris, 1947), 683Marshall, Thomas Humphrey, 490Martin, John Miller, 479Martin, Joseph William, Jr, 476Martin, Margery (nee Newhouse; later Brown), 130Martin, William, 130Marx, (Adolph) Arthur (‘Harpo’), 466Marx, Karl Heinrich: IB writes biography of, xviii,

xl, xli, 51, 67, 72, 76, 137, 189, 199, 218, 239–40,253, 261, 263–4, 270–1, 274–7, 280–3, 285, 296–7;IB reads and researches, 43, 115, 122, 129–30, 160,199–202; on political behaviour, 63; patriotism,77; Jewishness, 129; insensitivity, 134;Rachmilevich acknowledged in, 141 n1; onphilistines and bohemians, 227; IB’s views on,297–8; clerihew on, 485; Chronik seines Lebens inEizeldaten, 200 n8; Kapital, 67

Marxism: and Fascism, 138, 639; IB dismisses, 174;IB mocks, 626; see also Communism

Masaryk, Jan Garrigue, 339, 676Masaryk, Tomas Garrigue, 56; Otazka socialnı,

129–30Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley, 611Massenet, Jules Emile Frederic: Werther, 175 n5Masterman, John Cecil, 338; Fate Cannot Harm Me,

142 n1Matheson, Hilda, 338 n1Matheson, Percy Ewing, 300, 302 n1Mathews, Leslie Henry Staverton, 12 n1‘Matter’ (unpublished paper by IB), 514 n2Mat(t)hews, Commander Ed, 458, 462Mattuck, Rabbi Dr Israel Isidore, 250Maud, John see Redcliffe-Maud, JohnMaugham, William Somerset, 194–5May, D. H. C., 112Mazzini, Giuseppe, 152, 297, 632, 691‘Meetings with Russian Writers’ (IB), 601 n1Mehring, Franz: Karl Marx, 200–2Meiggs, Russell, 212, 576Meinertzhagen, Daniel, 186Melchett, Henry Mond, 2 nd Baron, 495Mellon, Andrew William, 365Mendelsohn, Erich, 39 n2Menuhin, Yehudi, 292

Merano, 231Meredith, George, 70Mestrovic, Ivan, 163Metaxa, Countess Ruth, 50, 53Mexico, 523, 528–9, 535–7, 539–40, 545Meyer, Andre Benoit Mathieu, 430Meyer, Eugene, 485, 676Meyerson, Emile: Identite et realite, 47Michaelis, Karin, 135Middle East, 623–4, 674, 684–5; see also PalestineMihailovich, Dragoljub (‘Draza’), 623Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich, 431Mill, John Stuart, 78, 146Millar, Derick Hoyer, 319, 399, 520, 617Milligan, Maurice Morton, 557Mills, Eric, 101–2, 119Mindel, Nissan, 429Mises, Ludwig von, 541Mitchison, Dick, 155 n7Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (nee Haldane):

We Have Been Warned, 155Mitford, Nancy, 37 n4, 710Mitrokhin, Vasili, 714Moberly, Sir Walter, 301Mocatta, Moses, 343 n2Mockbeggars Hall, Ipswich, 3Mods, xviiin2Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (pseud. of

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin), 323, 543,550 n2, 573–4, 607

Mond, Sir Alfred Moritz (later 1st Baron Melchett),139

Mond, Henry see Melchett, 2 nd BaronMontagu, Edwin Samuel, 222Montagu, (Beatrice) Venetia (nee Stanley), 222Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Sir David John, 434, 503,

519, 546, 566, 567, 583Montesquieu, Charles Louis Secondat, baron de,

690Monteverdi, Claudio, 231Montherlant, Henri de, 263Montreux Convention (1936), 621 n6Moore, George: Hail and Farewell, 280Moore, George Edward, 157, 204, 534, 649–50, 652Moore, Vera, 66Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge, 152 n2

*Morgan, Aubrey Niel: and IB’s wartime duties inUS, 325, 354, 423–54, 428; relationship to AnneMorrow Lindbergh, 336 n5; and IB’s illness inNew York, 411, 418; owns farm in WashingtonState, 452; IB stays with on farm, 466, 468; visitsLondon, 470; occupies IB’s house inWashington, 496; in Mexico, 523, 528–9, 540;marriages (to Morrow sisters), 528 n5; andHayek’s The Road to Serfdom, 541–2; andRidsdale, 543; Cruikshank praises, 545;achievements, 713

Morgan, Constance Cutter (nee Morrow), 411, 418,428 n5, 713






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Morgan, Elisabeth Reeve (nee Morrow), 528 n5,712

Morgenthau, Henry, 411, 421, 446–7, 449, 523, 665,672, 674, 681, 683

Morrell, Lady Ottoline Violet Anne, 111Morris, Charles Richard (later Baron), 137, 185 n1,

208Morris, William, 639Morrow, Dwight Whitney, 336 n5, 523, 530, 535,

540 n1, 712–13Morrow, Elizabeth Reeve (nee Cutter), 528, 539Mortimer, (Charles) Raymond (Bell), 216, 243, 573Mortimer, Robert and Mary ‘Mollie’ (nee Walker),

162Moscovitz, Gabriel, 96 n11Moscow: IB’s proposed wartime visit to, 312,

318–19, 324, 326–7, 329, 331, 333–5, 338, 341, 343,355–6, 452–3, 458, 473, 482, 530, 655; theatre andopera in, 391; Clark Kerr invites IB to Embassy(Plate 38), 550–2, 558–9, 563, 569–70, 573, 586; IBvisits (1945), 587, 589–95, 625; map, 588;conditions, 589–90; books in, 595; see also SovietUnion

Moscow Arts Theatre (‘Mkhat’), 591Mosley, Sir Oswald, 179, 388 n4Moss, Henry, 577, 694Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 374, 678Moyne, Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron, 669,

687–8, 690, 691Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 26, 85, 171Munich agreement (1938), 274, 282, 289–90Mure, Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist, 497Murphy, Frank, 485Murphy, Neville Richard, 497Murphy, Robert Daniel, 422Murray, Basil Andrew, 179Murray, (George) Gilbert Aime, 154 n6, 169, 173,

177, 179, 188 n3Murray, Lady Mary (Henrietta) (nee Howard), 170,

179Murray, Wallace Smith, 444, 448, 450, 677‘Music Chronicle’ (IB, as ‘A[lbert] A[lfred]

A[pricott]’), 191 n5Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea, 118, 156, 442 n4Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 154Mynors, Roger Aubrey Baskerville, 220, 345, 568Myrdal, Gunnar, 540 n3mysticism, 635–6mythology, 152, 154

Nabokov, Nicolas, 455, 490, 581Nabokov, Vladimir, 455 n1Nagasaki, 583‘Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982): A Personal

Impression’ (IB), 336 n7Naiman, Anatoly Genrikhovich: IB’s final letter to,

xvi–xviiNairne, Barbara Mercer (nee Chase; later

Marchioness of Lansdowne), 488Namier, Lewis (Bernstein), 238, 248, 682–3

Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French,212

Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939), 655Nazis: referendum (1931), 27; persecution of Jews,

54 n1, 83–4, 158 n4; hunting laws, 168; see alsoGermany; Hitler, Adolf

Nechaev, Sergey Gennadievich, 201Neddermeyer, Heinz, 237Nelson, Donald Marr, 421Neumann, Emanuel, 690New College, Oxford (Plates 11, 30): IB’s

philosophy lectureship at, xviii, xl, 38–9, 41,498; IB leaves, 43, 61–2; offers Fellowship to IB,274; IB refurbishes rooms, 288–90; IB takes upFellowship, 288; Wardenship, 322, 498, 501, 504,520; IB plans return to from US, 503; IBrecommends Hart as law tutor, 552, 560; IB’spost-war teaching at, 567

New Republic ( journal), 554New Statesman ( journal), 432, 458New Verse (magazine), 118New West End Synagogue, London, 9New York: IB in, 309, 311, 318, 320, 333, 372–3, 394,

655–6; maps of Manhattan, 310, 311; World’sFair, 332; IB’s view of, 348; Jewish court in,394–5

New York Herald Tribune, 328 n5, 481 n3, 499 n4,580 n1, 615 n4

New York Times, 402, 678, 709, 715–16New Yorker (magazine), 110, 251, 508–9, 654New Zionist Organization, 332 n3, 346 n3Newhouse, Hans, 130News Chronicle, 618Newsome, Mrs Noel see Grant Duff, ShielaNewsome, Noel Francis, 469 n1, 709Newsome, Penelope, 453 n3Newton, Sir Isaac, 634Nicholas I, Tsar, 603 n3

*Nicholas, Herbert George: letter from IB on CraigMcGeachy, 399 n1; as IB’s main channel ofcommunication in US, 413, 458; visits IB’sparents, 414; IB’s correspondence with, 419,660; in New York, 428; returns to England, 430,432; hostility to Durbin, 433; on IB’s letters toparents, 451 n2; and IB’s house in Washington,454 n1; presents cufflinks to IB, 473; delivers IBletter to parents, 490; and IB’s prospectivetransfer to Foreign Office, 526, 545; and IB’streatment for sinus problems, 527; IBrecommends to write for Britain in Picturesseries, 535; and Mary Cooke’s Surveys, 548–9;Fellowship at Exeter College, 552–3; DaphneStraight on character, 713; (ed.) WashingtonDespatches 1941–1945, xxiv, xxv, xl; IB’sIntroduction to, 654–62

Nicolaievsky, Boris and Otto Maenchen-Helfen:Karl Marx, 199, 201

Nicoll, ( John Ramsay) Allardyce, 341, 543*Nicolson, (Lionel) Ben(edict): and Dali, 150 n3, 153;






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career, 186; postcards and letters to IB, 209,279; on IB’s cloak in Salzburg, 257; and BonhamCarter family, 258, 260; jaundice, 279; inKarlsbad with Jeremy Hutchinson, 279–80;lodges with Hampshire and Hutchinson, 711

Nicolson, (Sir) Harold George, 194, 264, 306, 312,346, 350, 567, 579, 654, 713

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 318, 329, 459, 682Niebuhr, Ursula (nee Keppel-Compton), 380Nietzsche, Friedrich, 242Night and Day (magazine), 251Nijinsky, Vatslav Fomich, 531Niles, David K., 445Nogues, General Auguste Paul Charles Albert, 420Nolbandov, Sergei, 403 n1Norris, George William, 554North Africa: Allied landings (1942), 419Northrop, Filmer Stuart Cucow, and others:

Philosophical Essays for Alfred North Whitehead,180 n3

Norway: in war, 387Notestein, Wallace, 151Noufflard, Henriette, 133Nowell-Smith, Patrick Horace, 252, 498, 617Null, Samuel, 394

Odgers, Paul Randell, 185Odling, Thomas George (Plate 13), 59 n3Offenbach, Jacques: The Tales of Hoffmann, 531 n3Oiserman, Anna, 349 n1Oiserman, Zemach, 349Oklahoma (stage musical), 471Okulicki, Major-General Leopold, 566Olden, Mr & Mrs Rudolf, 188O’Mahoney, Eoin (‘Pope’), 285Oman, Sir Charles (William Chadwick), 163O’Neill, Con Douglas Walter (Plate 20), 167–8, 181,

191–2, 279, 423, 549, 568Opie, Redvers, 351, 501, 546Oppe, Armide Lyonesse Tollemache, 113, 162Oran: French fleet destroyed in, 326Order of Merit (OM), 228 n1Orgel, Calman, 96 n11Orgel, Fay (later Moscovitz), 96Orlov, Sergey Sergeevich, 605, 607Ormsby-Gore, William see Harlech, 4th BaronOrwell, George (pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair), 721Oumansky, Constantine Aleksandrovich, 313, 476Owens, ( James) Hamilton, 528Owsley, Alvin Mansfield, 204Oxford (Plates 6, 8, 9, 11 16, 30): map, 16; IB

admitted to, 17; student life and activities, 17,20–1; pre-war politicisation of, 36; philosophyat, 117–18, 152, 234, 497–8; Encaenia, 126; inwartime, 304; IB returns to (April 1946), 630; seealso individual colleges

Oxford Book of Greek Verse, 154Oxford Magazine, 140, 210, 236, 302Oxford Mail, 236 n1

Oxford Outlook ( journal), 21–2, 140, 180, 191Oxford Poetry, 177

P. M. (New York newspaper), 446Paepe, Cesar de, 201Page, Denys Lionel, 319 n3Page, Katharine Elizabeth, 319Pakenham, Elizabeth (nee Harman; later Countess

of Longford), 137, 155, 179, 321Pakenham, Francis (‘Frank’) Aungier Pakenham

(later 7th Earl of Longford), 67, 108 n4, 179, 211,321

Pakenham, Lady Julia (Plate 16), 100Palestine: IB visits, 93–102, 105–6, 109–10; IB on

situation in, 119–22, 176; Blumberg writes on,183; Peel Report on (1937), 246–50, 676, 681;Spectator articles on, 290; Weizmann’s plansfor, 306; as prospective Jewish homeland, 376;Anglo-American Joint Declaration on, 441,443–4, 448, 689, 692; wartime unrest in, 446–7,669, 674; US policy on immigration in, 476–8;IB disparages, 494–5; British White Paper of1939 on, 664, 670, 674, 680, 683–6; and USZionism, 664, 680; British post-war policy on,670, 684–5; proposed partition, 677; Jewishimmigration restricted, 690; Jewish terrorismin, 690; see also Israel; Zionism

Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association (PICA),101

Palmer, Dr (NY Hospital), 418Papandreou, Georgios, 547 n8Pares, Sir Bernard, 564–5, 577Pares, Janet, see Powicke, JanetPares, Richard: and elections to All Souls, 65;

Goronwy Rees on, 83; with IB at All Souls, 129;in Salzburg (Plate 19), 131, 257; IB invites tolunch, 140, 260; Ridley on, 157; marriage,159–60, 198, 251; and Frankfurters’ visit toOxford, 180; character, 220; liking forNotestein, 251; writes to IB in US, 389

Paris: IB visits de Benderns in (1946), 27, 615, 621;Mary Fisher in, 112, 122, 209; Commune (1871),201; World’s Fair (1937), 253; IB hopes to visit,507; IB offered post in, 515–16, 519

Parker, Henry Michael Denne, 250Parnas, Jacob, 599 n4Parnas, Mrs Jacob, 594Parnell, Charles Stewart, 222, 376Parodi, Dominique, 128 n1Parodi, Jacqueline, 128Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich: xl, 573, 590, 610;

Doctor Zhivago, 593 n1Pasvolsky, Leo, 464Patten, Susan Mary (nee Jay; later Alsop), 480Patten, William Samuel, 481, 627Patterson, Eleanor (‘Cissy’) Medill, 487Patterson, Robert Porter, 447Paul, St, 634






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Pauley, Edwin Wendell, 556–7Pauline (school magazine), 6Payne, Humfry Gilbert, 206Peacock, Thomas Love: Nightmare Abbey, 628Pearl Harbor, 277 n3, 386Pearn, Marie Agnes (‘Inez’) (Stephen Spender’s

first wife; later Madge), 217, 220–1, 237, 244, 270,717

Pearson, Andrew (‘Drew’) Russell, 441, 448–50, 503,558–9

Peck, Anthony (Tony) Dilwyn, 208Peel, (William) Robert Wellesley, 1st Earl: Report

on Palestine (1937), 246 n3, 676, 681Peers, Charles, 136 n4Pelham, Lady Prudence (later Branch, then Buhler;

Plate 21), 151 n1, 244Pelican Record (college magazine), 22–3Pember, Francis William, 157, 224Pembroke College, Oxford, 128Pendergast, Thomas Joseph, 557Pentland, Henry John Sinclair, 2 nd Baron, 91Peredelkino, 590Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 293; La serva padrona,

107–8Peri, Hiram, see Pflaum, HeinzPerkins, Frances, 421Perlzweig, Maurice L., 333, 335, 350Pernod, Jules Francois (Pernod Pere), 287Pershing, General John Joseph, 326Persia see IranPersitz, Akiva, 103Persitz, Shoshana (nee Zlatopolsky), 103 n2Personal Impressions (IB), xxvPetain, Marshal Henri-Philippe, 307, 420Peterson, Sir Maurice Drummond, 94 n2, 624Petrograd see LeningradPetrovich, Rastko, 461Pflaum, Heinz (later Hiram Peri), 102Pfrimer, Walter, 29 n3Phelps, William, 50Phelps-Brown, Dorothy Evelyn Mostyn, 322Phelps-Brown, (Ernest) Henry, 322 n4, 338Philby, Harold Adrian Russell (Kim), 318 n2Philby, Harry St John Bridger, 247Philipp Bros (metal-broking company), 323Philipp, Clarisse, 4, 253Philipp, Oscar, 4, 253 n6, 316Philipps, Wogan, 192 n1, 712Philippson, Ann Marian (nee Mocatta), 343Philippson, Paul Louis, 343Phillimore, Godfrey Walter, 2 nd Baron, 245Phillips, William, 436Philosophy ( journal), 164Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE; Oxford

course), 234–5Pidduck, Frederick Bernard, 50Pilkington, (Edward Cecil) Arnold (‘Pilks’), 103 n4,

203 n2, 233Pilkington, Mrs (Arnold Pilkington’s mother), 103Pilley, Miss (typist), 271

Pitt-Rivers, Captain George Henry Lane, 245 n4Pitt-Rivers, Rosalind Venetia, 245Plamenatz, John Petrov, 158, 163Plaskett, Edith Alice, 319Plaskett, Harry Hemley, 319 n4, 574Platnauer, Maurice, 575Plato, 145, 534, 632, 636, 710Playfair, Edward Wilder, 568Plekhanov, Georgy Valentinovich, 67, 218Plomer, William, 136, 193–4, 262pluralism, xlii–xliiiPoe, Edgar Allan, 74Poland: post-war settlement, 566, 581 n1Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata Maria, 275 n1Polatschek, Viktor, 26Poliakoff, Arthur, 351Polish American Congress (PAC), 501Pollitt, Harry, 229 n1Polvogt, Dr Leroy Matthew, 529Polyakov, Vladimir Solomonovich (‘Augur’), 495Pool, Tamar de Sola, 360, 363, 382, 429–30Pope-Hennessy, (Richard) James Arthur, 575Popkov, Petr S., 606Porpora, Nicola Antonio, 293Portofino, 54–5Portugal, 352–3, 358–9; Sephardic Jews in, 430 n7Potsdam Conference (1945), 582–3, 587Poulenc, Francis, 150 n3Pound, Ezra, 155, 610 n4Poussin, Nicolas, 216Powell, William, 581 n2Powicke, (Frederick) Maurice, 159 n1Powicke, Janet Lindsay (later Pares), 159–60, 251,

257, 260 n5Powicke, Susan (nee Lindsay), 159 n1, 160Preston, Cecil Herbert Sansome, 65

*Price, Henry Habberley: and Cassirer, 62; letter toIB on teaching Maire Lynd, 93; succeedsJoachim, 117; climbing with IB, 150; asWykehamist, 160; influence on pupils, 208;interest in flying, 208 n3; called up into army,454; position at Oxford, 498; IB proposes as lawtutor at New College, 552, 560; andHampshire’s career, 568; Americanbackground, 574; report on Wisdom’s TheMetamorphosis of Speculative Philosophy, 649, 651;‘Logical Positivism and Theology’, 164

*Prichard, Ed(ward) Fretwell (‘Prich’): IB meets inUS, 381; shares house with IB in Washington,427, 454; quits army, 486; overheard criticisingChilds, 518 n1; possible Oxford appointment,571

Prichard, Harold Arthur, 534, 571, 573–4Priestley, John Boynton, 168, 194, 608, 611; The Good

Companions, 212Prokosch, Frederic, 579Proletkul' t, 119Propertius, 155Proskauer, Joseph Meyer, 477Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 297






general index 747

Proust, (Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugene-)Marcel,80–1, 191, 212, 239, 241–3, 255, 273, 285, 470, 609

Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illarionovich, 644Pumphrey, ( John) Laurence, 592Punin, Nikolay, 611 n4‘Pursuit of the Ideal, The’ (lecture by IB), xxiPushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 73, 578 n3, 609; The

Gypsies, 114Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 139

Quennell, Peter, 193Quiller-Couch, Arthur (‘Q’): (ed.) The Oxford Book

of English Verse, 142 n2Quine, Willard Van Orman, 572

Rachmilevich, Solomon (‘Rach’), 141, 352, 404, 431,455, 496, 590, 704

Radcliffe, Cyril John, 1st Viscount, 52, 511Radcliffe-Brown, Arthur Reginald, 186Radek, Karl Berngardovich (ne Sobelsohn), 566Radiator (school magazine), 6Raine, Kathleen, 217 n3Rakhlin, Gennady Moiseevich, 604, 605–7Rankine, Paul Scott, 425, 661Raskin family, 334, 336, 349, 351, 395, 505Raskin, Rosa, 551Rau, Arthur Aron (Fred’s brother), 331Rau, Frederick (‘Fred’) Solomon: shares hotel

accommodation with IB in New York, 322, 325,332–3, 349, 351–2, 370, 381; visits Montreal, 346,348; cuisine, 365; reports IB’s illness to parents,387; in South Africa, 394; sends greetings to IB’sparents, 407; and IB’s pneumonia in New York,410; wartime visit to England, 415, 418

Rau, Hannah (Fred’s wife), 331Rau, Kathe (Fred’s mother), 331, 467Rauh, Joseph Louis, 381Ravachol see Koeningstein, Francois ClaudiusRea, (Margaret) Hermione (later MacColl), 425Read, Herbert: In Defence of Shelley, 158, 166Reader’s Digest, 678Reading, Eva Violet, Marchioness of (nee Mond),

477Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of, 335Reading, Rufus Isaacs, 2 nd Marquess of (and

Viscount Erleigh), 238, 477Reavey, George, 605Redcliffe-Maud, (Margaret) Jean Hay (nee

Hamilton), 159, 237, 248, 322Redcliffe-Maud, John Primatt Redcliffe, 159, 322, 502Reed, John Leigh, 481–2Rees, Jenny, 714

*Rees, (Morgan) Goronwy: IB defends againstcritics, 37; and IB’s appointment to All SoulsFellowship, 42; journalism, 44; and Spender’stravels, 45; relations with Shiela Grant Duff,48–9, 57–60, 75; in Salzburg, 57–8; at All Souls,62, 103, 203–4, 215, 263; IB invites to opera, 82–3,86; Cox and, 88; behaviour, 89, 116, 171; works

for The Times, 110; arguments with Sparrow,116, 162; wishes to meet Jenifer Williams, 151;romantic involvements, 171; on Andre Breton,174; writes in Oxford Outlook, 180; IB accuses ofpiracy, 181; IB’s attitude to, 182, 233; relationswith Elizabeth Bowen, 182, 192, 196, 215, 240;defends Bowra, 190; affair with RosamondLehmann, 192, 198; on O’Neill, 192; view of IB,209; quarrel with IB over Elizabeth Bowen’sletter, 222; and Spender’s prospective visit toAll Souls, 224; against Bowra’s return from US,225; effect on Stuart Hampshire, 227; andAyer’s affair with Inez Spender, 244; portrayedin Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart,288 n5; joins Territorial Army, 296 & n1;marriage to Margaret Morris, 357; IB meets inBerlin (1945), 589; Marie Berlin’s disapproval of,704; introduces IB to Shiela Grant Duff, 709;political sympathies, 714; IB on, 714; A Bridge toDivide Them, 233; A Chapter of Accidents, 171 n2;The Summer Flood, 37 n

Rees, Margaret (‘Margie’) Ewing (nee Morris;Goronwy’s wife), 357, 388, 713

Reilly, (D’Arcy) Patrick, 65, 568Reinhardt, Helene (nee Thimig), 430Reinhardt, Max (ne Maximilian Goldmann), 284,

429, 430Reith, Sir John, 423 n8Rendel, Alexander Meadows (‘Sandy’), 27, 29Rendel, Jane, 232Rennell, James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron, 247Rennie, John (‘Jack’) Ogilvy, 425Repin, Il' ya Efimovich, 594–5Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme, 166Reynolds, Reginald, 277 n2Reynolds, Robert Rice, 471Rheinische Zeitung (newspaper), 200Rhineland: Hitler occupies, 158Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 317Rickett, Denis Hubert Fletcher, 568Ricketts, Ralph Robert, 205–6Ridley, Sir Adam Nicholas, 185 n1, 533Ridley, Cressida see Bonham Carter, CressidaRidley, Jasper, senior, 403 n2, 714

*Ridley, Jasper Maurice Alexander (‘Bubbles’; Plate28): attends Gertrude Stein talk, 149 n4;describes IB’s rooms, 156; and IB’s unidentifiedopuscule, 164 n4; degree marks, 185; andRosamond Lehmann, 203; invited to meetSpender, 205; on language, 208; borrows IB’scloak, 256–7; marriage, 256 n1, 714; in Salzburg,256–7; concert-going, 295; lifestyle, 300; and IB’slife in Washington, 330; IB stays at parents’home on leave from US, 403; killed in action,507; IB’s tribute to, 530–2; IB dedicates TheHedgehog and the Fox to, 531 n1

Ridley, Nathalie (nee Benckendorff ), 366 n5,403 n2, 404, 533, 714

Ridsdale, William, 543






general index748

Riga, xxxix, 8, 191 n1, 254, 334, 351, 536; painting of(Plate 8), 147 n5

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 123Rimbaud, ( Jean-Nicolas-)Arthur, 156, 174 n6Rink, George Arnold, 140Robert, Admiral Georges, 420Roberthall, Baron see Hall, RobertRoberts, Celeste (‘Cella’) Leila Beatrix (nee Pasha),

619, 625Roberts, Frank, 550 n2, 594, 601, 630Robertson, Sir Charles Grant, 65Robertson, Giles Henry, 147, 157, 184–5, 254, 259–60;

painting by (Plate 17), 147 n5Robinson, Frederick James, 186Robinson, (Esme Stuart) Lennox, 283Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 554Rockefeller Center, New York (Plates 31–2), 361Rodbertus, Karl Johann, 68Rodell, Fred (ne Roedelheim): ‘Felix Frankfurter,

Conservative’, 382 n1Rodin, Auguste, 635Rogers, Ben: A. J. Ayer: A Life, 244 n1romanticism, 171, 227, 635Rome, 230Romilly, Esmond, 132 n2Romilly, Giles Samuel Bertram, 132, 206Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor, 456Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: Presidency, 277, 555,

558; Yeats dislikes, 277; and appointment ofFrankfurter to Supreme Court, 326 n2; and1940presidential election campaign, 333, 348; IBadmires and praises, 337, 370, 386–7; Churchillappeals to for supplies, 369 n1; consults writersand journalists, 374; Jewish support for, 376;reluctance to enter war, 386; relations andmeetings with Churchill, 391, 456, 467 n1; andFrench in North Africa, 421; disfavours Benes,422; and Zionist movement in US, 444–5,447–50, 668, 671–2, 673, 676, 677–8, 683, 686,688; IB’s view of, 456; re-elected (1940), 361 n5,367; (1944), 499–501; post-war settlement plans,521; attends Yalta Conference, 542 n6, 688;prospective death or retirement, 544; death,553, 688; appoints Rublee, 579 n6; meets IbnSaud, 688; supported by Felix Frankfurter, 709

Roosevelt, Theodore, 484 n1Roper, Elmo, 501 n1Rose, Herbert Jennings, 154–5Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of,

69–70Rosenman, Samuel Irving, 424, 444–7, 449, 528, 672Ross, Charles Griffith, 557, 568, 571, 577Ross, Leonard Q. (pseud. of Leo Calvin Rosten),

292 n3Roth, Cecil, 295Roth, Leon, 96, 105Rotha, Paul, 644

*Rothschild family, 367*Rothschild, Baronne Alix Hermine Jeannette (nee

Schey de Koromla), 411 n4, 430, 496*Rothschild, Barbara, Lady (nee Hutchinson), 215,

217, 711*Rothschild, (Nathaniel) Charles, 244 n4*Rothschild, Baron Edmond James de, 101*Rothschild, Eugene Daniel de, 345*Rothschild, Guy Edouard Alphonse Paul de: visits

IB in hospital in New York, 411, 413; on IB inWashington, 426; torpedoed on ship toEngland, 430; visits Washington, 505

*Rothschild, James (‘Jimmy’) Armand Edmond de,245, 477

*Rothschild, Mayer Amschel, 714*Rothschild, Miriam Louisa (later Lane): at Ashton

Wold, 244 n4, 246; warns IB against Burgess,313 n4, 318–19; and IB’s work in US, 346; cablesIB in US, 382, 470; IB requests letters from inUS, 408

*Rothschild, Rozsika (nee de Wertheimstein),244 n4

*Rothschild, (Nathaniel Mayer) Victor, 3rd Baron:IB stays with, 215, 217, 222; in love with LadyPrudence Pelham, 244 n7; parentage, 244 n4;succeeds to barony, 254; in Secret IntelligenceService, 313 n4; in New York, 419; IB hearsnews of from Guy de Rothschild, 505

*Rothschild, (Lionel) Walter, 2 nd Baron, 254 n4Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 31, 67, 137, 152, 385, 632–3Routh, Dennis Alan, 213, 252, 263Rowse, Alfred Leslie: political views, 31; at All

Souls, 62–3, 263, 284; garrulousness, 63; Timesprints letter by, 83; smugness, 125; quotesRimbaud, 156; and William Buchan, 178; onO’Neill as ‘difficult’, 192; ill-health, 198;relations with IB, 198; liking for Notestein, 251;and de Beer, 289; Sir Richard Grenville of theRevenge, 237

Rublee, George, 579*Rumbold, Sir (Horace) Anthony, 339, 377, 381, 411,

417–18, 422, 427, 488, 617Rumbold, Felicity Ann, Lady (nee Bailey), 377 n2,

488, 518, 522, 715Runciman, Walter, 1st Viscount, 285, 330Rupp, Frank, 148 n3Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl: as

Ottoline Morrell’s lover, 111 n3; andbehaviourism, 118; in Cambridge, 157; hated byBowra, 250; lectures in Oxford, 266; IBdisparages, 534; Wisdom on, 649

Russell, Betty Parr (later Whitbread), 77, 223Russell, John Conrad (later 4th Earl), 560, 575Russell, John Wriothesley, 283, 315 n4, 434, 452,

461–2, 467, 494, 527, 562 n2Ruthenia, 57–9, 63Rylands, George (‘Dadie’), 142, 216Ryle, Gilbert: and Cassirer, 62; IB inadvertently

offends, 112; dines with IB, 116; on GilesRobertson, 184; attends Blakeway’s memorialservice, 211; position at Oxford, 498; onphilosophical ‘brow height’, 510; and






general index 749

Hampshire’s career, 568

Sacchini, Antonio Naria Gasparo, 293Sacco, Nicola, 709Sacher, Gabriel David, 264Sacher, Michael Moses, 264 n3Sachs, Alexander, 430Sackville, Lionel Sackville Sackville-West, 2 nd

Baron, 488Sackville-West, Edward (Eddie) Charles (later 5th

Baron Sackville), 163Sackville-West, Vita (Mrs Harold Nicolson), 194,

488 n1, 713Sadeh, Yitzhak (ne Isaac Landoberg), 629 n2St Paul’s School, London, xxxix, 5, 11

*Salter, Sir ( James) Arthur: IB disparages, 125; andFrankfurters’ visit to Oxford, 180; manner, 199;and Stuart Hampshire’s answers to IBphilosophy questions, 207; and Baker divorcecase, 233; and IB’s proposed visit to Gottingen,249; predicts slump, 264; in US, 371–2, 377, 436;works in UNRRA, 474; in Oxford, 490;marriage, 574 n6; re-elected MP for OxfordUniversity, 574; character, 715

Salter, Ethel Mather, Lady (nee Bagg; thenBullard), 574, 715

Salzburg: IB visits, 26, 35, 55–8, 66 n3, 91–2, 100, 104,118, 127, 131–3, 137, 139 n6, 160, 163, 169, 173, 238,245, 246, 256–8, 284

Samuel, Godfrey Herbert, 245Samuel, Herbert (Louis), 1st Viscount Samuel of

Mount Carmel, 245, 249, 477, 675Samunov, Ida (nee Volshonok; IB’s aunt; Plate 3):

visits Riga with family, 8, 101; IB stays with inJerusalem, 94, 96, 101; writes to IB in US, 428;American relations, 455; sends regards to IB inUS, 505; in Jerusalem, 551

Samunov, Rivkah (later Halevy), 10–11Samunov, Yitzhak (Ida’s husband; Plate 3), 8–9, 94,

96–7, 102, 428, 432 n1, 551San Francisco: conference to draft UN Charter,

248, 530, 541–4, 546, 550, 553, 580–1Sansom, Sir George Bailey, 435Santayana, George, 632Sardou, Victorien, 449Sargent, Sir Orme (‘Moley’), 553, 579Sassoon family, 367Saul, Isaac, 143Savigny, Friedrich Karl von, 200Savitsch, Eugene Constantine de, 487Scaliger, Julius Caesar, 167Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley, 464; The End of

Reparations, 639Schalit, Bella, 24–5, 102 n9Schalit, Lionel (‘Lusia’) Leopold, 102 n9, 103, 352 n1Schalit, Lipman, 24 n3, 103 n1Schalit, Mark/Morduch, 102 n9Schalit, Samuel (‘Mulya’), 102Schapiro, Ernest, 378

Schapiro, Jacob, 129Schapiro, Lillian Milgram, 378, 715

*Schapiro, Meyer, 342, 378Schapiro, Miriam, 378Schauffler, Elsie T., 222 n2Schiller, ( Johann Christoph) Friedrich von, 124Schlick, Moritz, 178Schnabel, Artur, 535Schneerson, Nyuta, 95Schneerson, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, 364, 429Schocken, Salman, 370Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, 96, 704Schricker, Henry Frederick, 501Schroeder, Hellmut, 43Schubert, Franz, 154Schuller, Erwin, 399 n1Schuller, Richard, 314, 317, 399 n1, 524Schuller-McGeachy, Craig, see McGeachy, CraigSchuster, George, 377 n3Schwellenbach, Lewis B., 554Scott, Charles Prestwich (of the Manchester

Guardian), 28, 33–4, 36Scott, Sir David see Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Sir

DavidScott-James, Anne, 163Scriven (trade statistician), 358Sebba, Sam, 142Secker, Martin, 194, 721Sedgwick, Alexander Cameron, 547–8See, Anne, 139, 140, 162See, Peter Henri, 140Seeds, Sir William, 321Segal, Louis, 351Seixas, Victor, 430 n7Senhouse, Roger Henry Pocklington, 192, 204, 229,

238, 721Serov, Valentin Aleksandrovich, 495 n6, 594–5Seton-Watson, (George) Hugh Nicholas, 329, 331Seton-Watson, Robert William, 301Shakespeare, William, 632Shannon, Sheila Dunbar (later Dickinson), 92Sharett, Moshe, 667, 672, 677–8Shaw, George Bernard, 125, 267; London Music in

1888–89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto, 267 n3;Major Barbara, 169 n4

Shawe-Taylor, Desmond Christopher, 205Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 158, 230Sheremetev family, 611Shertok, Moshe (Sharrett), 248Ships with Wings (film), 403Shirer, William Lawrence, 622Shneerson, Mrs L., 100Shove, Fredegonde (nee Maitland), 371Shove, Gerald Frank, 371 n2Sicily, 46Sieff, Israel Moses, 368, 516 n2Sieff, Rebecca (nee Marks), 351 n1, 416, 429Sikorski, Wladyslaw, 411Silver, Rabbi Abba Hillel, 442, 671, 676–9, 687, 690






general index750

Simmel, Georg, 642Simmons, Ernest Joseph, 565, 577Simon, Sir John Allsebrook, 1st Viscount, 261, 492Simon, Sir Leon, 475Simon, Theo, 707Simonov, Konstantin Mikhailovich, 610Simpson, Ernest Aldrich, 219 n1Simpson, Wallis see Windsor, Duchess ofSinclair, Archibald, 670Singer, Simeon, 392 n2Sitwell family, 195Skaife, Brigadier Eric Ommaney, 566Skidelsky, Mrs, 575Skidelsky, Robert, Baron, 287 n5Smirdin, Aleksandr Filippovich, 604Smith, Adam, 160 n1

*Smith, Alic Halford: teaches American student, 79,114–15; as Acting Warden of New College,298–9; and Wardenship of New College, 322,498; political affiliations, 338; and IB’s visit fromUS, 346, 353; and IB’s absence in US, 364, 475,490, 526; questions IB over post-war plans, 438;elected Warden of New College, 501, 504, 520,538; visit to US, 523, 527; and IB’s visit toMoscow, 552; and Hampshire’s career, 568, 576;IB informs of invitation to Moscow, 569;character, 716

Smith, John Alexander, 117Smith, Maurice Judson, 185Smith, Nowell (Charles), 617Smith, Sir George Adam, 160 n1Smith, Sydney, 160 n1Smith, Sydney Goodsir, 160 n1Smoira, Moshe, 102Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 579, 676Snowman family, 9Snowman, Dr Jacob, 529Snowman, Leonard Victor, 529 n4Snyder, John Wesley, 556–7Soames, Christopher (later Baron), 478 n5Sobolewitz (Sobol), Boris, 347, 351socialism, 154, 167Socrates, 632Sokolov Grant, Micheal, 709Solomon, Flora (nee Benenson), 360, 411Solomon, Harold, 360 n5Somervell, General Brehon Burke, 421Sorbier, Francoise: ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin, esprit hardi’

(interview), 62 n1Sousa Pernes, P. P. Bon de, 575Soviet Union: national anthem, 473, 561; potential

rivalry with US, 486, 542, 563; post-war plansfor Europe, 521, 542 n6; and United NationsCharter, 581; on Labour election victory inBritain, 594; view of Churchill, 594–5; in Iran,621 n6; post-war intransigence, 622–4; IBcompares to English public school, 625–6;attitude to British imperialism, 626–7; see alsoLeningrad; Moscow

Spanish Civil War (1936–9), 188–9*Sparrow, John Hanbury Angus: dines with Virginia

Woolf, 68–71; arguments with Rees, 116, 162;language, 139; reviews Naomi Mitchison, 155;on Martin Cooper, 205; earnings, 221; andBowra’s return from US, 225; writes on LordMansfield, 230; liking for Notestein, 251; onimpending war, 287; on military mission to US,377, 380, 389; intellectual qualities, 511; friends,710; on A. H. Smith, 716; IB on, 716; Sense andPoetry, 127 n5, 158, 166

Special Operations Executive (SOE), 335 n2Spectator ( journal): IB reviews music books for,

140; articles on Palestine, 290Spencer, (Charles) Bernard, 126, 177, 195–6Spencer, Herbert, 634Spencer, Theodore, 482Spencer-Churchill, John Strange, 405 n2Spender, ( John) Alfred, 225, 374Spender, ( John) Humphrey, 48Spender, Inez (Stephen’s first wife) see Pearn,

Marie AgnesSpender, Natasha see Litvin, Natasha

*Spender, Stephen Harold (Plate 18): friendshipwith IB, 38; and Shiela Grant Duff, 40; inMalaga, 42, 45; romantic relationships, 43,76 n2;and IB’s inadvertent ‘kleptomania’, 74;recommends IB read Henry James, 80, 241; onLafitte’s comments on Oxford, 92; Frankfurtersends review to IB, 110; at Oxford tea party, 111;IB discusses literature with, 123–5; IB readspoems, 126; in Salzburg, 132–3; IB invites tolunch, 141, 205; wishes to read Greek, 154;writes on liberalism and Communism, 156;joins Communist Party, 167, 229; romanticism,171; edits Oxford Poetry, 177 n1; writes in OxfordOutlook, 180–1; and Elizabeth Bowen, 190; inLake District with IB, 193–6; visits HughWalpole, 193–5; and Rees’s affair withRosamond Lehmann, 198; IB missesappointment with, 204–5; sense of identity, 214;marriage to Inez Pearn, 217–18, 220–1;prospective invitation from Rees to All Souls,224; on uncle Alfred Spender, 225; and Tony,230; relations with IB, 233, 240, 284; on personalrelations, 243; breach with Ayer, 244; andprojected critical quarterly, 261; in wartime,306; IB suggests sending to US for wartimepropaganda, 321; second marriage (to NatashaLitvin), 371; IB on, 717; Burning Cactus, 169; TheDestructive Element, 116 & n4, 124 n1; Forwardfrom Liberalism, 229; ‘The Haymaking’ (story),181 n2; ‘Keats and Shelley (1795–1821;1792–1822)’, 230 n3; Trial of a Judge (play), 155 n4,157, 161, 165, 175, 269; ‘Vienna’ (poem), 118

Spengler, Oswald, 642Sperry, Miss, 63Spielman, Gertrude, Lady (nee Raphael), 149Spielman, Sir Meyer, 149






general index 751

Spinelli, Ingrid see Warburg, IngridSpinelli, Veniero, 88 n1Spinoza, Benedict de (Baruch), 78Sprott, Walter John Herbert (‘Jack’), 187 n2Squire, Sir John Collings, 205St-Clair-Erskine, James (‘Hamish’) Alexander

Wedderburn, 37Stace, Walter Terence, 496Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich: reaction to IB’s

meeting with Akhmatova, xl; Fletcherdiscusses with IB, 341; purges, 442; attendsYalta Conference, 542 n6, 688; attendsPotsdamConference, 582 n1; effect on Soviet society,589; orders evacuation of Akhmatova andZoshchenko from Leningrad, 607; speechdefending Soviet system (9 February 1946),622; expects Churchill to continue after war,686

Stamitz, Johann Wenzel Anton, 293Stancliffe, Barbara, 720Stanley, Oliver Frederick George, 423, 546, 670, 676Starhemberg, Prince Ernst Rudiger, 29Stark, Freya Madeline, 442, 483, 494, 578‘State of Psychology in 1936, The’ (IB), 187 n1Stebbing, (Lizzie) Susan, 117Stein, Gertrude, 149–50, 152, 212 n1Stein, Lorenz von, 68Steindler, Captain (of Pilsna), 99Steinhardt, Laurence Adolph, 321, 323Stendhal (pseud. of Marie-Henri Beyle), 241Stephens, Courtenay Edward, 163Stephenson, John Vere, 427Stephenson, William Samuel, 433, 436Stern, Avraham, 121 n4Stern Gang (Lekhi organisation), 121 n4, 687, 690Stern, Robert, 608 n1Stettinius, Edward Reilly, Jr, 544, 547–8, 553, 557,

675, 677–8Stewart, Arthur Thomas (‘Tom’), 555Stewart, Sir (Percy) Malcolm, 393Stimson, Henry Lewis, 447, 449, 557Stockholm, 621; see also SwedenStocks, John Leofric, 140Stoics, 631Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael, 110Stopford, Edward Kennedy, 59Stopford, Robert Jemmett, 330, 339Stoppard, Tom: Shipwreck, xixn1Storrs, Ronald, 117, 119Strachey, Barbara (later Hultin; then Halpern),

18 n1, 56–7, 429, 457Strachey, (Giles) Lytton, 146, 192 n2

*Straight, Lady Daphne Margarita (nee Finch-Hatton; Plate 34): affection for IB, 423;Weizmann meets in England, 437, 440; writesto IB in Washington, 469; visits IB inWashington, 474; works with Barbara MercerNairne, 488 n1; bored by Darvall, 503 n1;Cruikshank praises IB to, 545; letter from IB onTruman, 554; on Herbert Nicholas, 713

Straight, Dorothy, 554 n6Straight, Michael Whitney, 318, 717Straight, Whitney Willard (Daphne Straight’s

husband), 423 n1Straight, Willard (Dorothy Straight’s husband),

554 n6Strang, Sir William, 431Strathallan, John David Drummond, Viscount

(later 18th Earl of Perth), 337Strauss, Aline Elisabeth Yvonne (nee de

Gunzbourg; later Halban, then Berlin):marriage to IB, xli; gives painting of IB as childto Hampshire, 147 n5; IB sees on transatlanticvoyage, 358 n2; IB sees in New York, 419 n2

Strauss, Cyril Anthony, 91Strauss, Johann, junior: Die Fledermaus, 471Strauss, Richard, 130, 239Stresemann, Gustav, 314, 672Stroock, Solomon Marcuse, 332 n2Struma (Palestine immigrant ship), 664Struve, Gleb Petrovich, 564Stuart, Sir James Gray (later 1st Viscount), 479Sudetenland, 282Sue, Eugene (pseud. of Marie-Joseph Sue), 215Sulzberger, Cyrus Leo, 439, 450, 566Sumner, (Benedict) Humphrey, 161, 208, 213, 296,

490, 539, 542, 560, 565–6, 574, 578, 719surrealism, 153, 174Swan, Mrs (housekeeper?), 10–11Sweden, 591, 615, 621Swift, Jonathan, 230Swing, Betty Gram (nee Gram), 373 n2Swing, Raymond Gram, 373–4, 622Swingler, Randall Carline, 181Swingler, Stephen Thomas, 186Swinton, Major-General Sir Ernest (Dunlop), 321Swope, Herbert Bayard, 446, 448–9Sykes, Camilla Georgiana (nee Russell), 315 n4Sykes, Christopher Hugh, 315 n4; Troubled Loyalty,

84 n1Sylvester, James Joseph, 42 n7Syme, Ronald, 31 n7, 338, 380Syria, 109Szigeti, Joseph, 483Szilard, Leo, 430 n6

Taft, Robert Alphonso, 485Taft, William Howard, 485 n3Taji, Ahmed Shukri, 102 n11Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de, 465Tat, Die (periodical), 638Tawney, Richard Henry, 321, 383, 657Tel Aviv, 101, 107, 139, 142Teller, Judd, 665Tennant, Mark Dalcour (Plate 13), 59 n3Thistlethwaite, Frank: Our War, 1938–1945, 360 n7Thomas, Benjamin Crewdson, 404, 411, 424, 545Thompson, Dorothy (Mrs Sinclair Lewis), 374,

428–9, 678






general index752

Thompson, Virgil, 580Tiefenbacher, Clarita (later von Trott), 717Tighe, Dixie, 406, 415Tikhonov, Nikolay Semenovich, 610Time magazine, 218, 584–5, 654Times, The (newspaper), 30, 33, 83, 158, 432Tito, Josip Broz, 623, 673Toklas, Alice Babette, 150, 153Toller, Ernst, 165Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolaevich: Tsar Feodor, 591Tolstoy, Count Lev Nikolaevich: IB writes on, xix,

xli, 42, 81, 255, 272–3; on understanding, 164; onpersonal relations, 243; on writing, 285; Jubileeedition of works, 595; Detstvo, otrochestvo iyunost' (Childhood, Adolescence and Youth), 45 &n2, 134, 267 n4, 273; Hadji Murat, 594; War andPeace, 212

Tomkins, Edward Emile, 589, 593, 625Tomlinson, Colonel J. M., 334–5Torch, Operation, 419Toscanini, Arturo, 100, 104, 118, 126, 131, 133, 137, 173,

219, 236, 237, 246, 268, 292, 294Townsend, Mary Georgiana Townsend, Mayoress

of Oxford, 179Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 339 n5, 491, 514, 518–21,

529, 537–8, 545, 566Toynbee, Philip, 144 n2Transjordan, 98, 107Tree, Ronald, 423Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 302Trevor-Roper, Hugh (later Baron Dacre of

Glanton), 388 n1Tripp, Brenda Muriel Howard, 599, 602–4, 607Trollope, Anthony, 243Trotsky, Leon (pseud. of Lev Davidovich

Bronstein), 317*Trott zu Solz, Adam von (Plate 11): friendship with

IB, 40, 45, 63, 89–1; friendship with DianaHubback, 63 n1; denies Nazi presecution ofJews, 83–4, 89; visits All Souls, 126; visits IB atNew College, 292; Wheeler-Bennett defends,328, 339; friendship with Boker, 575; IB tributeto, 718–19

Truman, Harry S.: qualities, 390–1, 553, 555; in 1944election victory, 499; as successor to Roosevelt,544, 553–8; Churchill writes to on ‘iron curtain’,581; attends Potsdam Conference, 582 n1;reputation, 621, 628; and international affairs,623; Palestine policy, 687, 689–91

Trust Houses (company), 293Tsarskoe Selo, 603Tugwell, Rexford Guy, 555Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich: IB reads, 42, 44, 80,

284; on Flaubert, 182; returns to Russia, 284; Onthe Eve, 83, 232; Rudin, 42, 214

Turkey, 621, 624Turner, George James, 144 n2, 159, 199, 205Turner, Ralph Edmund, 492

Turner, Walter James Redfern, 338, 535 n1Twentyman, Edward, 547Twig, Pearly, 442Two Concepts of Liberty (IB), xl–xliTyndall, John, 76

Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de, 152United Nations: Charter drafted, 530 n1, 550, 581;

formed, 542 n6United States of America: IB wishes to visit, 79;

need for mythology, 152; immigrationrestrictions, 262 n1, 352 n2; IB arrives in, 309;IB’s personal impressions of, 320, 323, 327–8,363, 367–8, 379, 471–2; British wartimepropaganda in, 321, 326, 337; transfersdestroyers to Britain, 324, 326, 346; wartimesupport for Britain, 336, 338, 340, 346, 367, 384;IB’s unhappiness in, 356, 372; IB on Jews in,375–6, 378–9, 474, 478; enters war, 386, 390, 399;misunderstanding and mistrust of Britain, 400;Zionism in, 437–51, 663–93; anti-Semitism in,447; IB travels in, 465–8, 483, 494; policy onPalestine, 476–8; potential rivalry with USSR,486, 542, 563; attitude to Britain and USSR, 488;presidential elections: (1940), 361 n5, 367; (1944),499–501; and British colonialism, 546–7, 561,622, 660; and Soviet intransigence, 622; Britishweekly political summaries from, 655–60; anti-British attacks by Zionist organs, 680; see alsoWashington

Uppingham School, 69–70Upward, Edward, 270 n1Urmson, James Opie, 510, 710Urquhart, Francis Fortescue (‘Sligger’), 57 n4, 59Ussishkin, Avraham Menachem Mendel, 95, 101,

382

Vaillant, Auguste, 261Valery, Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules, 225, 295Vandenberg, Arthur Hendrick, 623, 627Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 709Vasnetsov, Viktor Mikhailovich, 594Vaughan, General Harry Hawkins, 556Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 371 n2Venice, 100, 104, 231–2, 254–5Venizelos, Eleutherios, 117 n3Verdi, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco, 124, 704;

Otello, 86, 118Verhaeren, Emile, 609Vernadsky, George (Georgy) Vladimirovich, 577Verne, Jules: De la terre a la lune, 207Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 158 n3Verschoyle, Derek Hugo, 215, 227Vicenza, 231Vico and Herder (IB), xliViennese Circle, 649Villiers, Charles Hyde, 157Vinson, Frederick Moore, 542‘Visit to Leningrad, A’ (IB), 601 n5






general index 753

Viteles, Harry, 96, 105Vogel, Frieda, 359Voight, F. A., 718Vollard, Ambroise, 214, 230Volshonok, Berta (IB’s aunt), 8, 10, 12, 346Volshonok, Rodsia-Freude (‘Rosa’) (IB’s

grandmother), 8, 12Volshonok, Victor, 351Vriesland, Zadok A. Van, 102

Wace, Barbara, 518Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, 245, 715Wade-Gery, Henry Theodore, 210, 220, 286, 338,

512Wadham College, Oxford, 293–4Wagner, Richard, 123–4, 154, 517Wagner, Robert Ferdinand, 445, 501Waismann, Friedrich, 498Waitz, Sigismund, Archbishop of Salzburg, 430Waley Cohen, Sir Robert, 477Walker, John, 561Walker, Lady Margaret Gwendolen Mary (nee

Drummond), 561*Walker, Rachel (‘Tips’; Plates 16, 22): in Paris,

12 n1, 112 n1, 122; friendship with and feelingsfor IB, 92, 122, 182; IB ends relations with, 133–5;portrayed in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death ofthe Heart, 288 n5

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 76*Wallace, David John: qualities, 118; and Sigle Lynd,

118; and de Bieville, 150 n3; degree, 185; andRosamond Lehmann, 203; invited to meetSpender, 205; examines philosophy at Oxford,260; IB’s liking for, 273–4; letter to IB in Ireland,279–80; wedding, 294; death, 547

Wallace, Euan, 720Wallace, Henry Agard, 421, 423Wallace, Miss (nurse), 412Wallenheim, Baroness Ingrid von, 328Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour, 193–6, 206, 230Walter, Bruno, 118Walters, Marjorie (later Lady Linstead), 380Walton, Diana Florence, 283Wangenheim, Luise, Baroness Gotz von, 328War and the Working Class ( journal; later New

Times), 543*Warburg family, 323, 367*Warburg, Aby, 364 n4*Warburg, Edward Mortimer Morris, 364, 376 n4*Warburg, Felix, 364 n4, 376 n4*Warburg, Fredric John, 174 n7, 192 n2*Warburg, Fritz, 364 n4, 376 n4*Warburg, Ingrid (later Spinelli), 88, 90, 176, 189,

330–1, 339, 364 n4, 376 n4*Warburg, Max, 376*Warburg, Pamela (nee de Bayou), 174, 227*Warburg, Paul, 376 n4

Ward, Barbara Mary (later Baroness Jackson), 528Ward-Perkins, John Bryan (Plate 16), 92

Warner, Christopher Frederick Ashton, 563,594 nn1,3, 601 n2

Warner, Rex, 714Washington, DC: IB serves at British Embassy

(Plate 36), xl, 318–19, 365–6, 502, 656–7; IB’sviews on, 320, 613; National Gallery of Art,365 n2; map, 398; IB runs Political SurveySection, 399, 656–7; British in, 402; IB shareshouse in, 427, 454–5, 467, 469, 473, 493, 496, 502,552, 594; IB describes life in to parents, 451–8,467, 469, 473–5; IB on as campaign HQ, 584; IBreturns to (February 1946), 615, 621; March ofRabbis, 672; see also United States of America

Washington Post, 381 n3, 399 n1, 485, 676Washington Times-Herald, 487Wassermann, Jakob, 242Watson, John Parker, 27Watson, Sydney, 338Watts-Dunton, (Walter) Theodore, 632Wauchope, Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur Grenfell, 97 n3, 98Waugh, Evelyn, 251; Brideshead Revisited, 628; Vile

Bodies, 56Webb, Mary Gladys, 168Webb, Sidney (Baron Passfield), 67 n4Webster, Sir Charles Kingsley, 383, 496, 515, 667,

682Wedgwood, Josiah Clement, 97Weidenfeld, George, 704Weiller, Commandant Paul-Louis, 562 n2Weisgal, Meyer Wolf, 428, 430, 671

*Weizmann, Chaim (‘Charles’): and pre-warsituation in Palestine, 121; Coupland praises,248; and Ormsby-Gore, 249; IB meets inwartime, 305–6; IB hopes to meet in England,345; proposed visit to US, 350; lives atDorchester Hotel during war, 354 n2; LordLloyd meets over Jewish units in British Army,355 n1; and IB’s work in US, 356; leaves for US,359; friendship with Flora Solomon, 360 n5;relations with Frankfurter, 369, 399; in US, 369,371, 376, 406, 428–9, 667; entertains DorothyThompson, 374; known as ‘Charles’, 374 n; onUS Jews’ love for Britain, 376; and son’s deathin action, 393–4, 396, 416, 669; and IB’spneumonia in New York, 404, 407–10, 415; staysin Catskills with IB, 415–17; visit to England(1943), 437, 447, 469; Zionist activities, 438, 447,668, 684; IB’s parents meet, 455; return to US,539; and US Zionism, 666, 675; influence on IB,667; protests at wartime Palestine unrest, 669;supports Churchill and British cause, 669, 673;favours creation of Jewish State, 670–2, 682;loses power, 672; patience and diplomacy, 673,683, 686; differences with Ben-Gurion, 677; andproposed partition of Palestine, 677; criticisesZionist propaganda in US, 678–9; and Britishpolicy for Palestine settlement, 683, 684–7;Churchill refuses to see after Moyneassassination, 688; unites against British






general index754

Weizmann, Chaim (cont.):Palestine immigration policy, 690; Trumansupports, 691; and Arabs, 692; IB remembers,721

Weizmann, Michael Oser, 394 n1, 418Weizmann, Vera (nee Chatzman), 351, 355, 360 n5,

394 n1, 407, 410, 415–18, 429, 437, 455, 721Weldon, Thomas Dewar, 577Welles, Sumner, 421, 438, 443–4, 448, 450, 616, 673,

675, 677Wellesley, Arthur Valerian (later 8th Duke of

Wellington), 157Wells, Herbert George, 125, 145, 213Wells, John, xxxivn2Wescott, Glenway, 482Westrick, Gerhardt Alois, 328Weygand, General Maxime, 422Wheeler, Burton Kendall, 367, 554Wheeler, Peter, 38 n5, 712

*Wheeler-Bennett, John Wheeler: on IB’s duties inUS, 309, 325, 347, 354, 656; on Czechs in US, 339;and IB’s pneumonia in New York, 406–11, 414,418; sends greetings to IB’s parents, 407; IB’srelations with, 428; on sardonic mood amongdiplomats, 442; returns to US, 457; in England,470; IB proposes for chair of military history,491; friendship with Alexander Halpern, 493;on US 1944 election, 499; and IB’s offer ofForeign Office post, 515; trip to Mexico, 523,528–9, 535–6, 540; on Foreign Office disputes,527; ill health, 528, 721; marriage, 538, 540, 552;on Aubrey Morgan, 713; friendship with vonTrott, 719; Special Relationships, 536 n1, 656

Wheeler-Bennett, Ruth Harrison (nee Risher),538 n2, 552, 722

Whitbread, Col. William H., 77 n4White, Harry Dexter, 546White, William Allen, 326Whitehead, Alfred North, 109, 180, 652Whitman, Walt(er), 572Whitney, John Hay, 481Whyte-Melville, George John, 572Wilberforce, Richard Orme (Plate 13), 59 n3, 65Wild, Revd John Herbert Severn, 542, 694 nWilde, Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills, 176 n2Wiley, Irena Monique (nee Baruch), 487Wiley, John Cooper, 486–7Williams, Edgar Trevor (‘Bill’; ‘Boy Brig’), 576

*Williams, Jenifer Margaret (later Hart; Plate 12): IBinvites to lunch, 113; degree, 144 n2; atBlakewayparty, 162; book reviews, 199 n7; success inCivilService exam, 199; holiday with Eve Kisch,203 n2; provides typist for IB, 271; politicalsympathies, 338; and IB’s categorisation of UStypes, 340; and husband’s appointment to NewCollege Fellowship, 534; Ask Me No More: AnAutobiography, 199 n6

Williams, Shirley, 576 n4Willich, August, 200Willkie, Wendell Lewis, 333, 345, 348, 361, 447, 485

Wills, David, 424Wilmers, Charles Kossman and Cesia (nee

Eitingon), 331, 334Wilson, Edmund, 572Wilson, Geoffrey Masterman, 563, 569Wilson, Giles, 694 nWilson, Harold, 694 nWilson, John Cook, 509, 512Wilson, Mary, 694 nWilson, Woodrow, 120, 579 n6Winant, John Gilbert, 368, 449, 677Windisch-Graetz family, 421Windsor, Edward, Duke of (earlier King Edward

VIII): coronation, 194 n2; abdication, 218–19,221; as guest of Baron Eugene de Rothschild,345

Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of (earlierSimpson), 218–19

Winocour, Jack, 424Winster, Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st

Baron, 527–8Wint, (Frank) Guy Atherton, 377, 432, 451, 582Winterton, (Cecilia) Monica, Countess, 72Wisdom, John Oulton: The Metamorphosis of

Speculative Philosophy, 649–53Wisdom, (Arthur) John Terence Dibben (cousin of

above), 117, 650; Problems of Mind and Matter, 117Wise, Stephen Samuel, 360, 438, 444, 447–51, 671,

677–8, 687, 688Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann, 652Wolf, W., 265Wolfson College, xvi, xvii, xliWolfson Foundation, xliWomen’s International Zionist Organization

(WIZO), 351 n1, 416 n2Wood, (Francis Hugh) Peter Courtenay: killed in

action, 416, 419Wood, Richard Frederick, 427 nWood, Sir Henry, 48Woods, Oliver Frederick John Bradley (Plate 13),

59 n3Woodward, Edward Llewellyn, 65, 187, 207, 212,

222, 296, 490, 569Woolf, Leonard, 80, 261 n6Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia (nee Stephen): letters

and diaries, xxvin1; dines at New College,68–71; IB adulates, 79; Elizabeth Bowen (MrsCameron) entertains, 82, 170; IB meets anddines with, 85, 305; at Oxford tea party, 111;Walpole discusses, 193, 195; perception, 229;use of cliches, 237; IB’s views on writings, 241;at Hogarth Press, 261 n6; sends invitation to IBwhile abroad, 332; death, 380; not known inSoviet Russia, 611; The Waves, 193; The Years, 231

Woozley, Anthony Douglas, 207, 234Workers’ Educational Union (German

Communist association), 200 n12World Committee for the Victims of German

Fascism, 60 n2






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World Zionist Organisation ( Jewish Agency), 93,247 n1, 443, 721

Wrangel, Baron Nikolay Egorovich:Vospominaniya, 201

Wright, Esther Ursula (nee Long), 483, 494Wright, Michael Robert, 434–5, 483, 503, 515, 519,

538, 543, 560, 561, 624, 661Wurzburg, 35Wylie, Shaun (Plate 13), 59 n3

Yakobson, Sergey Osipovich ( Jakobson’s brother),564, 578

Yalta Conference (1945), 542 n6, 547, 553 n3, 557, 688Yeats, William Butler: Cox disparages, 86–7;

literary qualities, 124; translation of Oedipus inColonus, 154; Bowra on, 225; IB overhears inDublin, 277–81; death at Cap Martin, 295;Autobiographies, 86; The Celtic Twilight, 86

Yeats-Brown, Francis Charles Claypon, 262Yehuda, Eliezer Ben, 96 n8Yellin, Avinoam, 96, 105Yellin, David, 96, 105Yorke, Eric Cecil, 338, 716Young, Sir George and Jessie (sometimes Helen),

Lady, 163 n4Youngman, William Sterling, Jr, 481

Yudin, Gennady Vasil' evich, 564 n7Yugoslavia, 623 n4

Zamenhof, Ludwik Lejzer, 8 nZeitlin, Elsley, 316Zemurray, Samuel, 306Zhdanov, Andrey Aleksandrovich, 606Zimmermann, (Ferdinand) Friedrich: Das Ende des

Kapitalismus, 638–42Zimmern, Sir Alfred (Eckhard), 234, 356Zinov' ev (Zinoviev), Grigory Evseevich (pseud. of

Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky), 229 n1Zionism, 9, 93, 101, 107, 120, 247 n1, 355 n1, 379; in

US, 437–51, 476–9, 663–93; see also PalestineZionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland,

247 n1Zionist Organization of America, 332 n2, 442, 683‘Zionist Politics in Wartime Washington’ (lecture

by IB), xxvZionist Revisionist Movement, 332 n4Zlatopolsky, Hillel, 93, 103 n2Zola, Emile, 241Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhailovich, 605, 606 n2,

607Zuckerman, Dov Ber (later Berlin; IB’s

grandfather), 496 n1Zweig, Stefan, 173






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