CONTENTS

List of Illustrations	xi
Foreword by Hermione Lee	xv
Author’s Preface to the First Edition	xxxi
Editor’s Preface	xxxv
Winston Churchill in 1940	1
Hubert Henderson at All Souls	30
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt	37
Richard Pares	50
Chaim Weizmann	57
Felix Frankfurter at Oxford	97
Aldous Huxley	108
L. B. Namier	121
Maurice Bowra	148
J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy	156
John Petrov Plamenatz	177
Auberon Herbert	187
Einstein and Israel	195
Where Was I?	211
Maynard and Lydia Keynes	218
Nahum Goldmann	225
Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion	235
Martin Cooper	243
Yitzhak Sadeh	252
Adam von Trott	269
David Cecil	273
Edmund Wilson at Oxford	283
Memories of Virginia Woolf	298
Alexander and Salome Halpern	304
Jewish Oxford	323
Herbert Hart	330
Corpuscle	337
Stephen Spender	347
Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956	356
Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life	433
Afterword by Noel Annan	441
Index	465