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In 1924, five years before Greene’s first novel was published, and while he was an undergraduate at Oxford, he read a book of short stories by Geoffrey Moss called Defeat. It was about the occupied Rhineland. In it Moss described ‘the atrocious conduct of the French troops at Trier … where they were trying to set up a little separatist republic in order to divide Germany.’1 Greene thought the situation scandalous and offered his services as propagandist to the German Embassy in London: he felt qualified because he was editor of the student publication The Oxford Outlook and a regular contributor to The Oxford Chronicle. His offer was taken up by Count Von Bernstorff who was then first secretary of the Embassy and who would later be executed in Dachau for running a Jewish escape route to Switzerland during World War Two.
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Graham Greene, ‘The French Peace’, The Oxford Outlook VI (June 1924) 212–14.
Christopher Isherwood, Lions and Shadows ( London: Hogarth, 1938 ) 177.
Louis MacNeice, The Strings Are False ( London: Faber, 1965 ) 101.
Graham Greene, The Name of Action ( New York: Doubleday, 1931 ) 58.
Graham Greene, Rumour at Nightfall ( London: Heinemann, 1931 ) 4.
T.S. Eliot, ‘Last Words’, Criterion 18 (January 1939) 271.
Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) 109. (Hereafter GS.)
Graham Greene, The Confidential Agent (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) 88. (Hereafter CA.)
Graham Greene, It’s A Battlefield (London: Heinemann, 1959) 119, 223. (Hereafter IB.)
Graham Greene, England Made Me (London: Heinemann, 1960) 50. (Hereafter EMM.)
Graham Greene, Stamboul Train (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951) 48. (Hereafter ST.)
Graham Greene, ‘Comments On Auden’, New Verse (November 1937) 29.
Graham Greene, ‘The Landowner in Revolt’, London Mercury (February 1937) 424–5.
Graham Greene, Brighton Rock (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965) 3, 169, 201. (Hereafter BR.)
Graham Greene, ‘Cinema’, Spectator (24 April 1936) 766.
Claud Cockburn, ‘A Conversation with Claud Cockburn’, The Review (No. 11–12, 1952 ).
Graham Greene, ‘Alfred Tennyson Intervenes’, Spectator (24 December 1937) 1058.
Graham Greene, ‘A Dane In Africa’, Observer (15 November 1936).
Graham Greene, ‘Homage to the Bombardier’, London Mercury (December 1937) 219.
Graham Greene, ‘Death in the Cotswolds’, Spectator (24 February 1933) 247.
Graham Greene, ‘Vive le Roi’, Spectator (22 July 1938) 139–40.
Graham Greene, ‘Strike in Paris’, Spectator (16 February 1934) 229–30.
Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear (New York: Bantam, 1970) 177. (Hereafter MF.)
Graham Greene, ‘Oberammergau’, The Graphic (17 May 1930) 345.
Graham Greene, ‘Three Travellers’, Spectator (8 December 1939) 838.
Graham Greene, ‘From the Mantelpiece’, Spectator (17 June 1938) 1110.
Graham Greene, ‘West Coast’, Spectator (12 April 1935) 620, and ’Journey Without Maps’, Time and Tide (23 May 1936) 460.
Graham Greene, ‘Dark Backward’, London Mercury (October, 1935) 562–5.
Graham Greene, ‘Cinema’, Spectator (6 December 1935) 940.
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Adamson, J. (1990). Between Wars. In: Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20770-1_2
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