Index
Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 46, 55, 132
Abdy, Jane Lady, 347
Abyssinia, 180
Action, 76, 77, 78, 200, 203, 204, 212, 386
Acton, Harold, 26, 42, 51, 332, 347
Acton, William, 194
Acton brothers, 20, 49
Advisory Committee, 230, 234
DM examined by, 240â43, 245, 345, 346, 376â403
Oswald Mosley examined by, 234â5, 252
Africa, 291, 294
Air Raid Defence, 208
Air Time Ltd, 180, 189, 199
Airlie, Lord, 18
Alamein, 151, 266
Albert Hall, 29, 137â9
Aldershot, 238
Alexandre, Pierre (hairdresser), 326
Alianora, 297, 298
Alice, Princess, 161
Allen, David, and Son, 180, 191, 195
Allen, Maud, 199
Allen, W.E.D (Bill), 73, 129, 160, 175, 179, 180, 189, 191, 196, 199, 303
Almasy, Teddy, 205â6
Amalfi, 158
Ancoats, 67
Anderson, Sir John, 213, 242, 386, 403
Andrews, Doris, 255
Anrep, Boris, 128
Antibes, 83
Appleshaw, 54
Arles, 91, 92
Ascot, 240, 376
Ashbrooke, 96
Ashley, Sylvia, 82
Ashton-under-Lyne, 66, 75
Asquith, Margot, Lady Oxford, 75
Asthall, 8â9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 24, 52, 260, 315
Aston, 73
Astor, Lady Nancy, 109â10, 200, 220
Astor, Lady Violet, 24
Athanasian Club, 27
Athenia, 208, 209*, 221, 387
Atlas mountains, 318
Attlee, Clement, 71
Auden, W.H., 165
Australia, 235, 278
Austria, 58, 386, 391
Avignon, 91
Bader, Group-Captain Douglas, 292
Baglion, Jean de, 307
Bailiffscourt, 25, 33, 42
Baldwin, Oliver, 74
Baldwin, Stanley, 43, 68, 74, 88, 392
Barker, Miss, 263
Batsford, 7, 8
Battle of Cable Street, 163, 166â7, 178
Baxter, Miss, 274
Bay of Biscay, 297
Bayonne, 186, 187
Bayreuth, 3
Clinic, 194
Festival, 141, 162, 171, 193â4, 202, 307
BBC, 130, 179, 181, 230, 322, 348
Beaton, Cecil, 48, 49, 83, 96, 157
Beaumont, 125
Beaumont, Colin, 181
Beaverbrook, Lord, 74, 75, 156, 157, 215, 313
Beckett, Mrs Joe, 221
Beckett, John, 73, 76, 122, 129, 161, 178, 236, 237, 259
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 44, 92
Belgium, 180, 181, 188, 189, 212, 221, 387, 390
King of the Belgians, 68, 158
Queen of the Belgians, 68
Berchtesgaden, 134, 142, 147
Berghof (Haus Wachenfeld), 142, 173
Berlin, 41, 60, 119, 134, 143, 152, 171, 172, 176, 183, 189, 190, 199, 385
University of, 118
Berne, 206, 207
Berners, Lord Gerald, xi, 91, 121â2, 128, 129, 191, 218, 247, 282, 283, 285, 287, 377, 378
Bernhardt, Dr Johannes, 193, 196
Betjeman, John, xi, 20, 26, 42, 53, 54, 60, 92, 287
Betjeman, Penelope, 287
Bevan, Dr, 265
Bevin, Ernest, 70
Biddesden, 51â4, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 89, 94, 96, 103, 104, 105, 113, 152, 238, 269
Bilbao, 186
Birch, Nigel, 114
Birkett, Norman, 234, 240, 241â2, 243, 252, 403
Birley, Robert, 151
Birmingham, 69
Bismarck, Countess Mona, 307
Bismarck, Otto von, 143
Black and Tans, 68, 299
Black House, 122, 129, 160, 161, 167
Blackshirt, 106
Blackshirts, 96, 115, 116, 122â3, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 138, 139, 164, 165, 166, 346, 374, 375 see also British Union of Fascists (BUF)/British Union of Fascists and National Socialists (BU)
Blackwater, 301
Blitz, 244, 253
Blomberg, Field-Marshal, 189
Bloomsbury, 56, 128
Blum, MaĂźtre, 334
Bodiam, 55
Boer War, 4, 7
Bonaparte, rue, Paris, 293
Bonham-Carter, Violet, 278
Books and Bookmen, 308, 348
Boothby, Robert (Bob), 73, 83, 92, 93, 98, 106, 303
Bormann, Martin, 144
Boulanger, Louise, 40
Boulestin, 7...