Chapter 15: Trailing One’s Coat

1  ‘These people have’: Quoted in Hugh Witford, The Mighty Wurlitzer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 12.

2  ‘an ordinary, interested’: KV 4/227/1a.

3  ‘very shortly after’: Ibid.

4  ‘she had any free time’: Ibid.

5  ‘speedily reduced’: Ibid.

6  ‘Form the habit’: Maxwell Knight, Be a Nature Detective (London: Frederick Warne, 1968), 169.

7  ‘a considerable amount’: KV 4/227/1a.

8  ‘Efforts are being made’: ‘Touts and Spies’, Daily Worker, 29 March, 1932.

9  ‘an acute attack’: KV 3/338/44b.

10  ‘an agent becomes’: KV 4/227/1a.

11  ‘coming into local’: History Sheet, 9 February, 1932, KV 2/1599.

12  ‘Bishop is not’: History Sheet, 15 February, 1932, KV 2/1599.

13  ‘might be pumped’: KV 2/2199/14x.

14  ‘very deaf’: KV 5/2/51x.

15  ‘rather an odd fish’: Barry Domvile Diary, 11 January, 1939, NMM, Dom 55.

16  ‘quite agreeable’: Vivian Hancock-Nunn (as ‘Lucien Francis’), Two Worlds (London: Talbot’s Head, 1960), 78.

17  ‘haughty disdain’: Ibid., 77–78.

18  ‘The increased efficiency’: KV 4/227/1a.

19  ‘engaged in some’: KV 2/3206/4a.

20  ‘anti-militarist work’: KV 2/3206/8.

21  ‘It is an immense safeguard’: KV 4/227/1a.