Chapter 37: A Letter to an Old Friend

1  ‘one of those intensely’: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, Vol. 2 (London: Collins, 1973), 108.

2  ‘The sooner you shoot’: KV 2/543/37d.

3  ‘actively taking part’: Rex v. Kent, MS 310/1/1/10.

4  ‘Part of my function’: Interview with Robert Harris, BBC Newsnight, 3 December, 1982.

5  ‘bulky’: KV 2/543/1z.

6  ‘do incalculable harm’: KV 4/227/1a.

7  ‘were not being adequately informed’: Rex v. Kent, MS 310/1/1/10.

8  ‘a smart woman’: Quoted in John Costello, Ten Days to Destiny (New York: William Morrow, 1991), 111.

9  ‘pleasant, politically stupid’: KV 2/840/69a.

10  ‘if she would like’: Ibid.

11  ‘Herr W. B. Joyce’: KV 2/543/43x

12  ‘Why didn’t you tell’: KV 2/902/62a.

13  ‘I replied that I’: Ibid.

14  ‘I explained that I’: Ibid.

15  ‘I replied that it might’: Ibid.

16  ‘a single sheet of quarto’: Ibid.

17  ‘She resealed the letter’: Ibid.

18  ‘Certain arrangements were then’: KV 4/227/1a.