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leave and correspondence with Decca 317, 318, 319–20, 341, 342–5; visits New Orleans 318; birth of Dinky 337; death 345–52; Churchill’s affection for 349–50
Romilly, Giles 25, 121, 220, 314, 316–17, 343, 349
Romilly, Julia Decca 258–60
Romilly, Nellie, née Hozier 25, 26, 121, 180, 224, 226, 317, 319, 320, 348; and Esmond’s marriage 227, 237, 240; Sydney’s disapproval of 25, 61, 121, 170; legacy 449
Roosevelt, Eleanor 348
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 347
Rose Cottage, Strand-on-the-Green 213
Ross, Alan S.C. 451–2, 453
Rosslyn, Earl of 97
Rotherhithe, London 254–5, 258, 264, 278
Roy, André 333, 352, 354–5
Rule 18B see Emergency Powers Act
Rules of the Game (Nicholas Mosley) 509–10
Rushdie, Salman 514
Rutland Gate, London 79, 82, 87, 98, 222, 228, 275–6, 286, 300, 312; used for Jewish evacuees 331–3; war damage 338

SA (Sturm Abteilungen) 172–3
St Margaret’s school, Bushey 119–20
San Francisco 369–76, 403–4
San Francisco Chronicle 375, 448
San Francisco College of Mortuary Science 478
Sarah Lawrence College 462, 472
Sassoon, Phillip 115, 131
Saturday Evening Post 478
Savehay Farm 320, 324, 379
Schaub, Julius 299
Seafield, Nina 68
Sewell, Mary, née Lutyens 99, 213
Shaw, George Bernard 136, 194
Sheridan, Diana 361
Shipton-under-Wychwood 46, 91, 381
Sickert, Walter 91
Sidgwick and Jackson 502, 505
Simolin, Rudi von 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 307
Sitwell family 127
Smiley, Sir Hugh 148–9
Smith, F.E. 135
Smith College 494
Snow, Jon 521, 522, 524
Soames, Christopher 400
Sockolovsky, Mr 331
Spain 203, 204, 233; Civil War 218–19, 220–1, 227–8, 239, 264, 293–5, 401
Speaker’s Corner 165, 190–1
Spectator 506
Speer, Albert 249, 253
Spellman, Cardinal 384
SS (Schutz Staffeln) 173, 206
Stalin, Joseph 447–8
Stamp, Lord 270
Stanley, Venetia (cousin) 115
Steele (gamekeeper) 48, 57
Stewart, Madeau 473–5
Strachey, John 136
Strachey, Lytton 108, 111, 127, 129, 132
Streicher, Julius 187–8, 191, 197, 266, 285
Stuka Pilot (Hans-Ulrich Rudel) 416
Stürmer, Der 187–8, 285
Sudetenland 266, 268, 270
Sunday Chronicle 204
Sunday Times 484
Sutro, John 68
Swastika, Ontario 31–3, 97–8, 189, 247, 316
Swinbrook (village) 46, 49, 54, 169, 312, 331, 341, 403
Swinbrook, Manor of 45–6
Swinbrook House 78–9, 82, 86–91, 98, 109, 118, 120, 121, 124–5, 147, 157, 164, 180, 327; Mill Cottage 243, 245; sold 201
Swinton, Lord 325

Tatler 149
Taylor, A.J.P. 450
Temple de la Gloire, Le 459, 502, 504, 526
Tennant, Toby 477
Thompson, J. Walter 255
Thompson, Lovell 464
Thynne, Brian 115
Thynne, Kathleen 68
Times, The 96, 98, 313–14, 407, 498
Timms, Mrs 312
Titanic 32
Tonks, Henry 107
Toynbee, Philip 180, 255, 260, 271, 277, 278, 279–80, 343, 484; Friends Apart 264; Jessica’s biography of 514
Trefusis, Violet 163
Treuhaft, Aranka 367–8, 373, 405, 407, 434, 436, 437
Treuhaft, Benjamin 405–6, 408, 436, 437, 448, 450, 456, 462, 464, 519; and brother’s death 433, 434; career 482
Treuhaft, Jessica see Mitford, Jessica
Treuhaft, Jung Min 519
Treuhaft, Nicholas Tito 385, 405, 406, 407; death 433, 456
Treuhaft, Robert 399–400, 511, 512; meets and marries Decca and moves to San Francisco 366–74, 375, 403–4, 408; relationship with Dinky 374, 406, 525; and Communist Party 376; background 385, 443; children 385, 405–6, 408; refused passport 428, 432–3; and McCarthy persecutions 430, 432; and death of Nicholas 433, 434; passport mistake enables trip to UK and Europe 434, 436, 437–9; reaction to Chatsworth 442–3, 511; visits Hungary and Paris 443–6; passport confiscated on return 446; leaves Communist Party 448; and Decca’s books 449, 469–70, 477–8, 479–80, 524; further trips to UK and Europe 450, 462–3, 482, 494; misses Decca 483; runs for office of DA 483; 50th birthday party 484; and Decca’s efforts to give up drinking and smoking 520, 521; website 524–5
Tullamaine Castle 420
twenties 67, 108

Union Movement 417, 460
Unity Mitford (David Pryce-Jones) 121–2, 494–9

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