The Horror of Love (43 page)

Mitford, Pamela (NM’s sister, “Woman’) birth,
23
, country life,
28
, dislikes Mosley,
45
, objects to Mosley’s behaviour,
66
, attempts to have children,
82
, marriage to Jackson,
88
, pro-Fascist views,
88
, visits NM during final illness,
255

Mitford, Tom (NM’s brother) birth,
23
, piano-playing,
27
, education,
29
, NM writes to from Pans,
29–30
, homosexual experiences,
36
, and Bruno Hat hoax,
41
, death in war,
85
,
244
, pro-German views,
88
, NM discusses reading with,
224

Mitford, Unity (NM’s sister) schooling,
29
, and Diana’s attachment to Mosley,
45
, infatuation with Nazism and Hitler,
49
,
59–60
,
63
,
88–9
, uses make-up,
59
, condemns
Wigs on the Green
,
62
, and Jessica’s elopement with Romilly,
80–1
, failed suicide attempt,
89–90
, survival and death,
90
, life wrecked,
95
, attends NM’s wartime party,
132

Mitford, William (NM’s grandfather),
21

Monnet, Jean,
105
,
108

Montespan, Athenais de,
252

Morocco GP in,
49
, Italian interests in,
232–3

Mortimer, Raymond,
79
,
133
,
183

Mosley, Alexander,
57

Mosley, Cynthia, Lady
(née
Curzon),
44–5
,
205

Mosley, Diana, Lady
(née
Mitford, NM’s sister) birth,
23
, portrait by Helleu,
23
, marriage to Bryan Guinness,
39
, and Bruno Hat hoax,
41
, affair with Mosley,
44–5
, political extremism,
49
, sexual passion,
56
, interior decorating,
57
, meets Hitler,
59
,
88
,
95
, commitment to Fascism,
63
,
64
,
66
, estrangement from NM,
67
, marriage to Mosley,
67
,
95
,
206
, and NM’s
Wigs on the Green, 6j
, NM denounces in war,
94–5
,
98
, raises money in Germany for commercial radio station,
96
, imprisoned in war,
98–9
, and NM’s dedication of book to GP,
159
, and husband’s adultery,
204–6
,

Mosley, Diana, Lady–
contd
on GP’s marriage to Violette,
253–5
, and NM’s cancer,
255
, visits NM during final illness,
255
,
259
, NM dedicates
Frederick the Greatto
,
256
, and GP’s calling on NM during illness,
258
, declines invitations to Le Marais,
259

Mosley, Max,

Mosley, Sir Oswald Diana’s affair with,
44–5
,
49
,
56
, affair with BabaCurzon,
59
, Fascism,
61
,
64–5
, anti-Semmsm,
65
, marriage to Diana,
67
,
95
, meets Hitler,
95
, on BUF wartime policy,
96–7
, and Cable Street march and riots,
96
, imprisoned in war,
97
, masculinity,
134–5
, philandering,
197
,
204–6
, GP’s liking for,
257–8

Mountbatten, Lady Edwina
(later
Countess),
32

Moyne, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron,
98

Muggendge, Malcolm,
152
,
164

Mugmer, Abbè,
70

Muhlstem, Anatole,
194–5

Muhlstein, Anka,
2
,
195

Munich Agreement (1938),
77
,
85

Mussolini, Benito,
76
,
96
,
102
,
217

National Committee of French Liberation (CFLN),
138

National Liberation Front of Algeria (FNL),
214

Nazi-Soviet pact (1939),
77

New Look, the,
187–8

New York Free World
(newspaper),
173

Nicolson, (Sir) Harold,
64
,
123
,
135
,
183
,
205
,
236

Noailles, Anna de,
69

Noailles, Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de,
177–8
,
200
,
257

Nogues, General Auguste, III

North Africa French administration,
137–8
, Italian trade interests in,
232–3
,
see also
Algeria, Morocco

Norwich, John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount,
79
,
176
,
179
,
183
,
196
,
205
,
207
nuclear tests (French),
239

Oberle, Jean,
178

Ogilvie-Grant, Mark friendship with NM,
34
, and NM’s attitude to homosexuals,
37–8
, and NM’s relations with St John Erskme,
39
, and publication of
Highland Fling
,
42
, and NM’s marriage to Peter Rodd,
53–4
, financial limitations,
57
, helps NM acquire furnishings,
57
, portrayed in
Pigeon Pie
,
93
, and imprisonment of Oswald Mosley,
97
, death,
257

Olivier, Laurence, Baron,
183

O’Neill, Mary
(later
Gascoigne, ‘Middy’),
175

Ordre de la Libération,
116

Orwell, George,
87
,
120
,
223

Out of Bounds
(magazine),
80

Oxford Worcester College,
16
,
19

Palewski, Dominique (GP’s nephew),
13
,
50

Palewski, Gaston in Addis Ababa,
1
,
125–7
, appearance,
1–2
,
181
,
196
,
235
, NM meets,
1
,
133–4
, portrayed as Sauveterre in
The Pursuit of Love
,
1
,
3
,
134
,
154
,
195
, sex appeal,
2
,
235
, family background,
9–12
, birth,
12
, social ambitions and snobbery,
13
,
18
,
19
,
69
,
71
,
178
,
235
, transfers to North Africa,
13–14
,
107
, in, education,
14–16
, fluency in English,
14
, interest in art,
16
, studies at Worcester College, Oxford,
16–19
, glves Helleu painting to NM,
23
, temporary military service (1923–4),
47–8
, posted to Rabat as attache to Lyautey,
48–50
, political commitment,
49
, spiritual dimension,
50
, relations with Proust,
69
, converts to Christian faith,
70–1
, family pride,
70
, joins publishing house Boivin,
71
, works as secretary for Democratic Alliance and Paul Reynaud,
71–3
,
77–8
, apartment in Rue Bonaparte,
72
,
76
, collecting,
72
, meets de Gaulle,
73
,
75–6
, and war threat,
76–8
, need for beauty,
77
, and NM’s childlessness,
83
, serves in air force in war,
100–1
, prescience,
105–6
, joins de Gaulle in war,
106
, arrives in London (1940),
114
, promotes de Gaulle’s cause in Britain,
115
, de Gaulle appoints director of political affairs,
116
, view of USA,
117–18
, attempts to control de Gaulle,
121
, social life in Britain in war,
122–3
, appointed to command Free French forces in East Africa,
125–7
, stripped of French citizenship in war,
126
, as de Gaulle’s director of Cabinet,
127–8,
160
, NM’s intimacies with,
135–7
, travels to Algiers with de Gaulle,
137
, friendship with Lady Diana Cooper,
138–9
,
176
,
184
, returns to London from Algiers,
143
, accompanies de Gaulle on visit to USA,
146–8
, returns to France with de Gaulle,
146
, enters liberated Pans,
150
,
152
, NM visits in Pans after war,
153
,
155
, furnishings of Paris flat,
155
, fails to marry NM,
157
, life with NM in Paris,
158–9
, NM dedicates
Pursuit of Love
,
159
, office in Paris,
160
, arranges residence for de Gaulles in France,
161
, Mme de Gaulle dislikes,
161–2
, and conditions in France after liberation,
166
, seen as
eminence gris
,
168
,
170–1
, and elections (1945),
169–70
, falls ill,
169
, made officer of Leégion d’Honneur,
171
, use of cologne,
171
, and de Gaulle’s resignation,
172
, doubts on Marshall Plan,
172–3
, drafts manifesto for RPF,
173
, journalistic commissions,
173
, attitude to collaborationists,
177–80
, NM resumes familiarity with in Pans,
188–92
, weeps at Coopers’ departure from Pans,
190
, negotiates in Moscow,
194
,
211
, womanizing and affairs,
196–9
,
201
,
207–9
,
235
electioneering tours in France,
210–11
, wins seat as RPF member for Seine,
211
, political appointments and career,
212–13
, advocates nuclear power,
213
, appointed ambassador to Rome,
215–19
,
235
, supports European Community,
218
, NM loses,
219–21
, NM visits in Rome,
220–1
, relations with Pope John XXIII (Roncalh),
231–2
, and Italian trade interests in North Africa,
232–3
, paper on Italian democracy,
232
, entertaining at Rome embassy,
233
, restores Farnese Palace,
234
, birth of son,
236
,
243
, as minister for scientific research, atomic energy and space,
238–9
, meets Khrushchev,
239
, as president of Constitutional Council,
240–1
,
256–7
, resigns from government (1965),
240
, and Save Venice campaign,
241–2
, supports European cultural federalism,
242–3
, tribute to Waugh,
244
, and student riots of 1968
249
, marriage to Violette,
250
,
253–4
, visits NM in Versailles,
250
, and de Gaulle’s 1969 resignation,
256–7
, visits NM during final illness,
258–9
, gives Légion d’Honneur to NM,
259
, visits Mosleys,
259
, cultural activities in later years,
260
, death (1984),
260–1
, marriage relations,
260–1
,
The Atom, Our Destiny
,
214
,
Mémoires d’Action
,
105

Palewski, Jean-Paul (GP’s brother) family background,
9–10
,
70
, visits museums as boy,
12
, brilliance as student,
14
, criticises GP’s need for affection,
15
, visits Poland, visits GP at work in publisher’s office, mobilized in World War
11
,
100
, captured and interned in war,
113
, and French wartime actions against GP,
126
, childhood,
251
, not told of GP’s marriage,
253

Palewski, Maurice (Moise, GP’s father),
9–14
,
68

Palewski, Peisach Abramovich (GP’s grandfather),
10

Palewski, Rachel (
née
Notkowa, GP’s grandmother),
10

Palewski, Rose
(née
Diamant-Berger, GP’s mother) marriage,
11–12
, on GP’s adolescent laziness,
14
, affectionate nature,
15–16
, and GP’s career,
68
,
71
, GP seeks to safeguard against Germans,
106
, concern for GP’s health,
169

Palewski, Violette (GPs wife)
see
Pourtales, Violette de

Paley, Babe,
244

Palffy Erdody, Count Paul,
179
,
181

Panafieu, François de,
114

Panter-Downes, Mollie,
120

Pans anti-semitism in,
11
, GP’s childhood in,
12
, NM visits as girl,
29–30
, life in 1920s,
30–1
, NM visits with Waugh and Guinnesses,
39–40
, Rue Bonaparte,
72
,
76
, liberation (1944),
148–50
, celebrations,
151–2
, NM visits and settles in after war,
153
,
155–6
, British Embassy,
175–6
,
182–4
, women’s fashion,
185–8
, post-war social life,
190
, NM leaves for Versailles,
245
,
événements ai
1968
246–9

Pans, Treaty of (1951),
212

Pans-Presse
,
173

Pasteur
(French ship),
105

Patenôtre (newspaper publisher),
177

Patou, Jean,
185

Patten, Bill,
200

Patten, William
My Three Fathers
,
201
,
203

Patton, General George S,
148–9