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[jacket and binding] spine 1928–46 1928–1946
[jacket] back flap, 1 Riga, capital of Latvia, the Baltic city of Riga
ii at bottom of text [add (asterisk and its spacing to match the one under the heading at top of page; remaining copy line for line, obliques in roman, size as‘Edited by’ lines above):] *

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iv 10–11 [Irving Berlin copyright notice] [omit this notice if Irving Berlin epigraph on p. 397 (q.v. below) is not used]
v

For Jenifer Hart
In memory of Jenifer Hart
1914–2005

14 Reeder; Copyright Reeder; copyright
xi 9 Midtown Manhattan Part of Midtown Manhattan

[caption 3] Ida and Yitzhak Yitzhak and Ida
xvi–xvii
last and first
Anatoly Naiman, Anna Akhmatova’s friend and (latterly) secretary,
the poet Anatoly Naiman,
xxvii
note 1, 2  stationary stationery
xxxiii 18  Sir William Goodhart Lord Goodhart

7 up Matthews, Matthews, Derwent May,
xxxiv 9 Conrad Caspar

note 2, 3 Club club
xxxv

[insert postcript below existing text, after a 3-line space; size of heading as subtitle on p. xv, half-line space below heading]
Postscript
I record with sadness the death of Jenifer Hart, the book’s dedicatee, on 19 March 2005.
xlvii Inez Pearn, later Madge Pearn (later Madge)

Jenifer Williams, later Hart Williams (later Hart)
xlviii
9 up
first page
title page
li Yehudi Menuhin 1909–1996 1916–1999
lii
Fradkin tree
Irene Silikis Rachile Belinki
liii

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4
caption, 2
6 Ferncroft Avenue
33 Ferncroft Avenue
5
note 4, 1
Grundy,
Grundy (1861–1948),
10
note 2, 1 Eliezer
Elazar

note 2, 2  Ephraim Efraim

note 3
Braütigam
Bräutigam
27
note 2, 1
Mayben
Maben
31
note 6, 1
Alfred
(Alfred)
39
note 1, 1 1891–32
1891–1932
40 note 1, 1 (b. 1913) (1913–2004)
50
note 4
(b. 1913) (1913–2005)
58
note 1
brackets.
brackets. Here and above the correct form is ‘Košice’.
59
8 up
[insert note cue 4 after ‘Zilnia’]

59 note 3, 3 occasion). occasion: see Plates 13 and 14).


[insert new note 4:]
Properly ‘Žilina’.

note 3, 6–7  six, apart from Wilberforce, were New College men.  six were New College men (in Wilberforce’s case, not currently).
62
note 2
[remove existing note and substitute note 2 from p. 498]

63 note 2, 2 St Paul’s Girls School St Paul’s Girls’ School

note 3
historian
orientalist
65 note 2, 2  since 1927 1927–38

note 5,4  stood Baron Wilberforce 1964, barrister, stood


barrister,
barrister, Fellow of All Souls 1932–2003,
68
note 7, 1
historian
classicist
69
note 3, 1
believes
believed
76
note 7, 5–6 [printed on p. 77]
IB translated [...] 89–112.
Here IB refers to Blok’s epic poem Vozmezdie (‘Retribution’, written 1910–21).
83
note 2
Cyril
Cyril Vernon
89
12 up
[insert note cue 2a after ‘Foster’]


notes
[insert new note 2a:]
For John Foster see p. 694 below.
91
note 1, 1
b. 1914
1914–2004
92
12
[insert note cue 4a]

notes
[insert new note 4a:] François Lafitte (1913–2002), writer on social questions for The Times 1943–59; later (1959–80) Professor of Social Policy and Administration, Birmingham. Lafitte had recruited Maire Lynd to the Communist Party, so his comment was approving.

note 5
Renée, wife of A. J. Ayer since 1932.
Renée Ayer: see 62/5.

note 6, 1
reports
reported

note 6, 2
remembers
remembered

note 6, 3
has
had

note 6, 1–2 [take over to p. 93]

98
note 1
1897
1895
100
note 1, 3
24
26
112
note 4, 1
announcment
announcement

note 4, 7
May [...] on 15
May on 15

note 4, 8
The latter
Doris Hermione Croxton May (1899–1968), Somerville modern languages 1917–20, secretary to Chaim Weizmann 1929–48. Her letter

note 4, 10
May.
Miss May.
113
note 5, 1
b. 1914
1914–2005
117 note 1, 5  [delete ‘Gunnis gave Hilton a lot of trouble’ and add the following at the end of the note:] Rupert Forbes Gunnis (1899–1965), antiquarian and art historian, wrote Historic Cyprus: A Guide to its Towns and Villages, Monasteries, and Castles (1936) and Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660–1851 (1953), and was a thorn in Hilton’s side.
119 note 1, 9 (Leningrad, 1924) (Leningrad, 1924)

note 4, 1  historian classicist
126
note 2, 2
Bradley-)
Bradshaw-)
130
note 2, 1–2
According to IB she later married a Mr Brown of the British Museum. She later (1962) became the second wife of Peter Corbett, Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at University College London.
137
14
[insert new note cue 1 after ‘Crossman’]

10 up
[replace note cue 1 with 1a]

notes
[insert new note 1:] Erika [sic] Susanna Crossman (1906–79), née Landsberg, natural daughter of the German film director Hans Steinhoff; first wife of Richard Crossman from 1932 (but not mentioned by him in his Who’s Who entry). The marriage was dissolved c.1935. See also p. 701 below.


[renumber note 1 as 1a]

141
note 1, 5
tel quel
telles quelles
142 note 5, 1 (b. 1915) (1915–2003)
149
note 4, 1
1936
1946
151
note 1, 1
Guy Branch
Guy Rawstron Branch

note 3
Namely?
‘Le struggleforlifeur’.


‘Le stuggleforlifeur’. ‘Le struggleforlifeur’ (sometimes printed with spaces or hyphens between the components) or ‘strugforlifeur’. John Bowle uses ‘strugforlifers’ in his parody of IB’s The Hedgehog and the Fox, ‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’, Punch, 24 February 1954, 264.
154 note 6, line 2
Robinson
Robertson
157 note 6
[replace with the following note:]
Perhaps an error for the composer Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657–1714), some of whose songs had been recorded; a record placed off-centre (‘eccentrically’) on the turntable might so sound.
158 last line
[take in top line from p. 159]

159 1
[take back line to p. 158]

12  add cue ‘2a’ after ‘inévitable’.’

[add note 2a:]
For this record see p. 694 below.

note 4, 1 Redcliffe-Maud (Redcliffe-)Maud
163
note 2, 1
b. 1912
1912–1995

note 3, 1 Stephens Stevens (sic)

note 9, 1
Eddie
Eddy
166 11 up Hubert Herbert

Plate 2
on a seaside holiday
in Nice on the Promenade des Anglais (the English Promenade); the pier was demolished by the Germans in 1944

Plate 8

[replace with cleaned-up version available from HH]
176
note 2, 1
Bosey
Bosie
178
8
24 June
23 June
179
note 1, 5
23–4 June
23 June
182 8 prosecution persecution
188
last line
[this line may be taken over to 189 if necessary to accommodate addition to note 3]


note 3
[replace with the following note:]
Rudolf Olden and his wife, Ika (1908–40), daughter of George Halpern (93/3), strongly anti-Nazi German refugees, were taken in by the Gilbert Murrays. In 1940, after internment as an enemy alien, Olden accepted a post in New York. He and his wife drowned, as did nearly 100 British children, when the City of Benares was torpedoed.

note 5
‘Colour
‘Farbebekenner (sic) means ‘colour
192 1 Rosamund Rosamond
193 note 1, 1 Rosamund Rosamond


Rosamund Rosamond
207 note 2  [replace with the following note on H. D. Henderson:] Hubert Douglas Henderson (1890–1952), Kt 1942, economist; Joint Secretary to the Economic Advisory Council 1930–4, Fellow of All Souls 1934–52 (elected Warden 1951, but fell ill and never took up the post); Economic Adviser to the Treasury 1939–44; Professor of Political Economy, Oxford, 1945–51.
208
note 4, 1
Morris
Morris (137/1a)
212 note 2  1930–9. 1930–9, Balliol 1939–70.
216
note 3, 1
c.1900–42 c.1898–1942
217 note 1, 4  degree. degree, but later (1972) became Oxford’s Montague Burton Professor of International Relations.
218
note 2
[substitute new note, reducing two-line spaces higher on page as necessary:]
Prince Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russian geographer and (during his time in the tsarist army) explorer, fled to Europe in 1876, where he became a revolutionary propagandist and a leading anarchist theorist, writing works such as Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution (1892, in English 1902). He is best known, however, for Memoirs of a Revolutionist, first published in English in Boston in 1899, now a classic.
219 note 3  L. D.
222 1 1a


[Add note cue ‘1b’ after ‘Henderson’]

note 1, 1  Neville (a) Neville

note 1, 2 1935–56. 1935–56; (b) for H. L. Henderson see p. 694 below.
224
note 4, 1–2 Erika [...] generally
Erika Crossman (137/1a) was generally
232
note 4, end
Zilina.’
Zilina’ (59/4).
244
note 4, 2–3
still [...] house.
lived there all her life.

note 7, last line (on 245) daughters of the 6th Marquess of Anglesey Celia and Mamaine
246
note 1, 1
b. 1908
1908–2005

note 2, 1–2 looks [...] likes
looked like a biblical Jew, as she did all her life; she agreed with, and liked
248
note 1
Sharrett
Sharett
282
14
Berchtesgarden
Berchtesgaden
289
note 2
[substitute new note:]
Esmond Samuel de Beer (1895–1990), New Zealander by birth, historian and seventeenth-century specialist.
290
note 4
b. 1919
1919–2004
302
note 2, 1
1976
1876
306
9 up
on which
on {which}
309 note 4
Minister Director, ILO, 1932–8; (founding) Warden, Nuffield, 1939–43; Minister
310 [sharpen maps, reducing them in size so that the top of the top map aligns with the top of the (new) map on p. 311]
311 [replace map with smaller detail, enlarged to fit existing space; add ‘1’ to mark 55th Street in position indicated]

caption Midtown Manhattan Part of Midtown Manhattan


55th Street [...] hotels some of the hotels on 55th Street (1) at which IB stayed
312
note 3, 1
vnutrennykh
vnutrennikh

note 3, 2–3
Otdelenie gosudarstvennoi politicheskoi
upravy ...
Ob´´edinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe
upravlenie
318
note 1, 3
1946–56.
1948–56.
329
note 3, 3
later apparently
later

note 3, 4
Embasy
Embassy
331
note 6
b. 1896
1885–1956
335
note 7, 4
1918.
1918; Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1921–6.
336
note 2, 2 first non-stop flight
first non-stop solo flight
338 note 1, 5  ‘Billa’ (‘Billa’)
339 note 4, 1  Fellow historian; Fellow of All Souls 1934–8; Fellow

note 8, 1
Thomas
Tomáš
345
note 2
1939; his father is
1939, died in the 2004 tsunami; his father was
346
note 3, line 1
1987
1887
351
note 3
A dog?
Ika Olden (188/3).
358
note 3
Mendelovich
Mendelevich

note 4
Irene Apter, née Silikis
Rachile Apter, née Belinki
371 note 1 1921 1919
380
note 2, 2
Trinity College, Cambridge,
Trinity,
397 1–10 [Irving Berlin epigraph] [NB: rights have been cleared for this extract ONLY FOR ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITIONS; if translating publishers wish to use it, they must clear rights with Williamson Music, who may also ask to approve any translation] 
398 [sharpen map; add further numbers to identify key places (existing ‘1’ becomes ‘2’); add detail from existing map, available separately, centred in space below caption – main map too small in CUP edition] 

caption [replace with:] Central Washington, showing the British Embassy (1), Tracy Place (2), the White House (3), the National Gallery of Art (4), the Capitol (5) and Union Station (6); the detail below magnifies the section that includes the British Embassy and Tracy Place
414
note 2, 2
Oskorblennie i unizhennie
Unizhennye i oskorblennye

note 5
predann’ predann [an error for ‘predan’]’
416 note 1, 2  (1975–1948) (1875–1949)
421
note 3
1940–4 1940–5
429
note 7
[replace existing note with the following:] For the death of the Halperns’ daughter Ika Olden see 188/3.
437 note 1, 2  Leon Léon
455
6 up
[delete note cue 2 after ‘Cadet,’]


note 1
(pace [...] later
of writer Vladimir Nabokov, whose father, Vladimir Dimitrievich Nabokov, leader of the ‘Kadets’ (431/4), had been killed by a Russian monarchist in 1922; later

note 2
[delete note]

456
5
Rosamond
Rosamund
457 note 4, 1 ( b. 1909) (1909–2004)
facing 458 Plate 21
[[correct proportions of photograph (CUP edition only), and] replace with new cleaned-up version available from HH]
between 458 and 459
Plate 38
Moscow, from the Moskva river
Moscow
491
8
Hindenberg
Hindenburg

note 3, 1
Beneckendorf
Beneckendorff
501
note 6
[replace existing note with the following:] The Political Action Committee of the CIO (383/5), set up in July 1943 to support Roosevelt’s re-election campaign.
529 9 up

еиди […] ригайся

сиди […] рыпайся

note 1 [replace existing note with the following:]
‘Sidi i ne rypaisya’, Russian slang for ‘Sit still and don’t fidget.’
541 7 up 4 April 1945 [carbon] 4 April 1945
542 13–14
[move note cue 1 to follow ‘Jesus,’]

note 1  Wild Wild and ‘the denationalisation of Jesus’
543 3 ‘Scapegoat Scapegoat
551
9 up
лубите
любите

8 up
ненравит[ь]ся
ненравит´ся

note 12, 1
nenravit´sya?
nenravit´sya [correctly “ne nravitsya”]?
559 note 3 [replace existing note with the following:] 7 May 1945 became known as AP Day when the Associated Press leaked news of the end of the European war a day in advance of the formal announcement of peace on VE Day (see WD 558, 562).
560 note 1, 1 medievalist; medieval historian; Fellow of All Souls 1937–9;
562 17  brought bought
564
note 7, 5–7
letter: [...] public.
letter. Its custodians included survivors of the heterogeneous armies who fought the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War of 1918–20, often referred to as the White Guards.
566
note 4, 2
Lvov in the Ukraine
Lviv in Ukraine
569 note 2, 2  Club Club in 1930
573
note 1, 3
Twins in clouds
Twin in the stormclouds

note 2, 3
since 1918.
1918; living in Peredelkino from 1939.
574 note 3  ‘sophists’? perhaps ‘shits’, a favourite pejorative label of Bowra’s.
575 note 5, 1  best known known
576
4
Low Esq.,
Lowe Esq.,

note 3, 3–4  1945–6, Fellow and politics and history Tutor 1947–80. 1945–80, politics and history Tutor 1947–52.
579
note 4, 1
(1970–50) (1870–1950)
588 [sharpen map, and move number ‘1’ very slightly north-east – map too small in CUP edition]
594 note 3
‘Stumbled or ‘tripped up’ [...] spotknulos´).
‘Woman stumbling’ [...] spotknulas´).
595
note 4
[replace existing note with the following:]
The weekly magazine Niva, published by A. F. Marks in St Petersburg 1870–1918, offered the complete works of Russian authors as supplements.
598 [sharpen map, improve its contrast, switch the numbers ‘4’ and ‘5’, and change the last two lines of the caption to read: 

Petrograd in 1916–20: the 22nd line of Vasil´evsky Island (4) and Maklin Prospekt (formerly Angliisky Prospekt) (5)

– map too small in CUP edition]
599 note 2, 1 ( 1906–2004) (1906–2004)
605
note 2
[replace existing note with the following:] Vladimir Nikolaevich Orlov (1908–96), literary critic; editor-in-chief of the Biblioteka Poeta series and expert on the poetry of Aleksandr Blok, whose collected works he edited.
607
note 3, 1
Aleksey
Aleksii
612
6 up
present, is
present – is
623
note 2, 1
b. 1904
1904–2005
630
PS, 1
[insert new note cue 1 after ‘etc.’:]


foot of page
[insert new note 1:] Cf. 601/3, 618/1.
633
10–9 up
flattery, which we may enjoy on our journey will mean anything to us if we have forgotten the purpose of our travels, and
flattery which we may enjoy on the journey will mean anything to us, if we have forgotten the purpose of our travels and

note 2
[replace existing note with the following:]
2 In fact from R. Ellis Roberts, Life as Material (London, 1928) [a pamphlet in Section I of a series edited by Percy Dearmer, Affirmations: God in the Modern World], 17; repr. in A. A. David and others, God in the Modern World: A Symposium (New York, 1929), 82.
694 [align heading with heading on p. 695 and remove 6 pts space between all text paras]

1–2
[replace headnote with the following:]
These notes (late additions or previously misplaced information) could not be fitted in where they properly belong, though cross-references to this page have been inserted.

3
inserted.
inserted. More corrections are posted at http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/f/corrections.html as the need for them becomes apparent.


[add 2 new entries above that for p. 200, formatted similarly:] p. 89 [insert here what was previously note 2 on p. 62]

p. 159  The music on this record (entitled Pastiches musicaux – Odeon 166.015, a 10-inch 78 rpm disc) was composed and sung, to his own piano accompaniment, by the French humorist Bétove, a serious composer under his real name of Michel-Maurice Lévy (1883–1965). IB misremembers ‘Ô terreur, ô tristesse, ô catastrophe inévitable!’ from the pastiche of Wagner; the other composers given the Bétove treatment are Massenet, Debussy, Reynaldo Hahn and Rossini.

3–5 socialist [...] war. historian and scholar of international relations; FO 1916–36, Wilson Professor of International Relations, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1936–47; wrote leaders for The Times during the war. Favoured British alignment with strong foreign powers; this led him to support appeasement in the 1930s, but subsequently to embrace the Soviet Union.


[add new entry between those for p. 200 and p. 542, formatted similarly:] p. 222  Henry Ludwig Henderson (1880–1963), classicist, Fellow and Tutor, New College, 1905–45. The obituary note on him in the New College Record for 1963–4 (pp. 2–3) is recommended. One sample: ‘As a classical scholar he belonged to a long-vanished era when a pupil’s errors of syntax or prosody were regarded as indications of moral obliquity.’


[add new entry for p. 542 between the existing entries for that page and the entry for p. 559:] By ‘the denationalisation of Jesus’ IB means the election as Principal in 1944 of Sir Frederick Ogilvie, a Scot – a break with the College’s traditionally Welsh loyalties.
697 9 nine. Then nine; then
698 April d’Amore d’amore
699 Early January 1941 by sea. by sea

2 up p. 644 p. 644 above
701 6 Mexico Mexico,
703  1 THESE These

4 index General Index
706 Cecil, 4 PI PI2
707
4
Glück Glück (1906–79)

5
Theo
Theo(dor)

6
Julius Glück Julius Glück; subsequently married to, fourth, Hans von Meiss, fifth, Herman Sieber, finally, Fritz Levi
708
Fisher, Mary, 1
(b. 1913) (1913–2005)

Fisher, Mary, 2 up Colonial Service Colonial Office
709 10 Macheish Macleish

Grant Duff, 1 (b. 1913) (1913–2004)


St Paul’s Girls School St Paul’s Girls’ School

Hampshire, 1
b. 1914
1914–2004
712 1 there these

Lynd, 2 Irish nationalist writers writers and Irish nationalists

Lynd, 3–4 St Paul’s Girls School St Paul’s Girls’ School

Lynd, 2 up neighbours– neighbours –
713 Nicholas, 3 up funny funny.
714 Rothschild, [...] Miriam, 1 b. 1907 1908–2005

Victor Rothschild,  4 brother sister
715
Salter, 4
1954
1953
717 Spender, 4 1921 1919

Spender, 6 second year second year,

note 3 423 423 above
718 13 PPE, PPE –
719
4 lines above Walker
than than
than that
722
Williams, 1
b. 1914
1914–2005
724
Aleksey
Aleksey
Aleksii
725
Apter(s), Irene
Irene (née Silikis), 364
Rachile (née Belinki), 258 n4, 364 [and move entry to follow that for Liliana Apter(s)]
726
Ayer, [...] Renée
63 n7
62 n5


62 n5
62 n5


92
92

Ayer, Valerie
345
155, 345

Beecham
Audrey,
Audrey,220,
728

[add new entry below that for Betjeman:]
Bétove, 694 n
730 Cassirer, Ernst  62–4 62, 64
733
de Beer
Gavin Rylands
Esmond Samuel

Dodds Robinson Robertson

Donizetti d’Amore d’amore
734
Engelmann
[delete entry]



[add new entry below that for Erlanger:] Erlebach, Philipp Heinrich, 157

Fisher, Mary, 4 up
Rosamond
Rosamund
735
Foster, John Galway, 1
and Cassirer, 62;
694 n;


[add new entry below that for Foster, John Galway:]
Foster, Michael Beresford, 498: and Cassirer, 62

Gambetta
Leon
Léon
736
Graham, Katherine
Katherine
Katharine

Gunnis
Rupert
Rupert Forbes
737
Halevy, Ephraim  Ephraim Efraim

Halpern, George
57, 93, 429
57, 93, 188, 429

Hampshire, 1 in Paris with IB in Paris

Harrod, Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina
Wilhelmine
738 Hart, Herbert [...] (cont.),  9 567, 539, 567,


572; 572; Bowra’s view of, 577;

Headlam Morley Headlam Morley Headlam-Morley

Henderson, Henry
207, 219, 222
222, 694 n


[add new entry below that for Henderson, Henry:] Henderson, Hubert Douglas, 207, 219

Hertz, Joseph
42
41
739
Isherwood
Bradley-:
Bradshaw-:
740
Kluckhohn
Mayben
Maben


[add new entry below that for Laffan] Lafitte, François, 92
741

[add new entry below that for Levitt] Lévy, Michel-Maurice, see Bétove
743
May
D. H. C.
Doris Hermione Croxton
744 Moss 694 694 n


[add new entry below that for Nabokov, Nicolas:]
Nabokov, Vladimir Dimitrievich, 455 n1

Nabokov, Vladimir
Vladimir
Vladimir Vladimirovich
745
Nicolson
(Sir) Harold
Hon. Harold

Northrop
Cracow
Crackow


[add new entry below that for Offenbach:] Ogilvie, Sir Frederick, 694 n


[add new entry below that for Okulicki:] Olden, Ika, 188, 351

Olden
Mr & Mrs Rudolf
Rudolf


[add new entry below that for Page, Katharine:] Paget, Celia and Mamaine, 244 n7
746
Polish American Congress
Polish American Congress (PAC)
Political Action Committee (PAC), CIO
747 Redcliffe-Maud [both entries]  Redcliffe-Maud (Redcliffe-)Maud
748
Roosevelt, 4–5
[run on]

749
Sharett
Sharett, Moshe, 667
Sharett (Shertok), Moshe, 248, 667

Shertok
(Sharrett), 248
see Sharett, Moshe
751 Stark 483, 477, 483,

Stephens
Stephens
Stevens [and move entry to follow that for Stettinius]
752
Toynbee, Philip 144 n2
244 n2

*Trott zu Solz, 2
89–1 89–91

ibid., 3
presecution
persecution
754
Williams, Jenifer, 3–6 [run on]



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