The Bitter Taste of Victory (72 page)

‘The Russians like’, ‘in extreme’: George P. Hays cited in ‘Clay’s Aid Firm on Stay in Berlin’,
The New York Times
, 13 Jan 1948.

‘Americans and English’, ‘Reds succumb’: TM, diary, 21 Jan 1948, in
Tagebücher.

20  
‘young, vigorous’: ‘Mr. Bevin’s Outline for a Western Union’,
The Times
, 23 Jan 1948.

‘Again I see Russia’: TM, diary, 25 Jan 1948, in
Tagebücher.

21  
‘15,000 well-armed’: TM, diary, 9 Feb 1948, in
Tagebücher.

‘Of course this’: TM, diary, 10 Mar 1948, in
Tagebücher.

22  
‘the old gentlemen’: TM, diary, 7 Mar 1948, in
Tagebücher.

23  
‘The Text of President Truman’s Address to the Joint Session of the Congress’,
The New York Times
, 18 Mar 1948.

24  
On Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky, see Richard Collier,
Bridge Across the Sky: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
, 1948–1949 (Mcgraw-Hill, 1978), p. 4.

‘as an organ’, ‘no sense’: ‘Soviet Quits Berlin Council. Lays Rift to Western Allies’,
The New York Times
, 21 Mar 1948.

25  
‘We are here’: ‘Russians Cancel Meetings of Berlin Control Groups’,
The New York Times
, 23 Mar 1948.

26  
‘nonsense headlines’: TM, diary, 26 Mar 1948, in
Tagebücher.

‘from the very’: ‘All Germany is in a State of Tension’,
The New York Times
, 28 Mar 1948.

‘has in fact’, ‘the dismemberment’: ‘Moscow Radio Avers End of Berlin Control Council’,
The New York Times
, 1 Apr 1948.

Clay stands ground: ‘Berliners’ Fears of Clash Increase’,
The New York Times
, 3 Apr 1948.

27  
‘Soviet-British Plane Collision Kills 15; Russia Apologizes’,
The New York Times
, 6 Apr 1948.

‘The newspapers’, ‘Hardly any’: TM, diary, 11 Apr 1948, in
Tagebücher.

Argument with Heinrich: TM, diary, 14 Feb 1948, in
Tagebücher.

‘Agree with Erika’: TM, diary, 1 May 1948, in
Tagebücher.

28  
‘Was it not true’: KM, ‘Lecturing in Europe on American Literature’, Dec 1948, KM Archive.

29  
‘Can the mother’, ‘language exile’, ‘all the time’, ‘Will the result’: KM, ‘Das Sprach-Problem’,
National-Zeitung
(Sonntags-Beilage), 28 Sep 1947, KM Archive.

30  
‘I find it increasingly’, ‘There are moments’: KM, cited in Weiss,
In the Shadow
, p. 228.

31  
‘exhilarating and pernicious’, ‘freedom, lightness’: TM,
Doctor Faustus
, p. 406.

‘If one could’, ‘sadly impossible’, ‘with a mixture’: KM, ‘Deutschland und seine Nachbarn’ (lecture), 12 Apr 1948, KM Archive.

32  
‘Mr K.M.’: KM, ‘Lecturing in Europe’.

‘weary, melancholy’: HS,
The Dark and The Bright
, p. 235.

‘the mangled cadaver’: KM, ‘Lecturing in Europe’.

33  
Arrival of tanks: ‘100 Big Soviet Tanks At Berlin, British Say’,
The New York Times
, 15 Apr 1948.

‘It would be’: ‘British Discount Tank Move’,
The New York Times
, 16 Apr 1948.

American bombers: ‘28 Heavy Bombers, Just Arrived From U.S., Are Ordered by Clay to Sortie Over Berlin’,
The New York Times
, 16 Apr 1948.

Trucks with insulin: ‘Russians Hold Up Medicines’,
The New York Times
, 17 Apr 1948.

‘bitten old ladies’, ‘beaten’: ‘4-Power Berlin Aides in Fruitless Session’,
The New York Times
, 8 May 1948.

34  
‘unfriendly, dangerous’, ‘she refuses to’: Christopher Isherwood, diary, 31 Mar 1940, in
Christopher Isherwood Diaries: 1939
–
1960
, vol 1, ed. by Katherine Bucknell (Vintage, 2011).

35  
‘enraptured with Eissi’, ‘deeply struck by’, ‘quite natural’: TM, 17 Oct 1920, in TM,
Diaries, 1918
–
1939
.

‘To be the son’, ‘But it is likewise’: TM,
The Beloved Returns: Lotte in Weimar
(New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969), p. 65.

36  
See KM’s depiction of Höfgen as part of a Germany that is driving itself crazily to ruin in
Mephisto,
trans. Robin Smyth (Penguin, 1995), pp. 145–46.

37  
‘Spoke about Berlin’: TM, diary, 29 May 1948, in
Tagebücher.

‘another colossal’, ‘with absolute’: Knopf to TM, cited in diary, 29 May 1948, in
Tagebücher.
‘Klaus all over’: TM, diary, 11 Jun 1948, in
Tagebücher.

38  
‘cut the flow’: ‘U.S. Bars Russian Publications From Distribution in German Zone’,
The New York Times
, 20 May 1948.

Restricted routes: ‘U.S. Restricts Soviet Entry To German Zone in Reprisal’,
The New York Times
, 21 May 1948.

Petition: ‘8,663,461 Germans Said to Ask Unity’,
The New York Times
, 31 May 1948.

39  
‘Am glad not to’: TM, diary, 14 Jun 1948, in
Tagebücher.

40  
‘ordeals’: TM, diary, 15 Jun 1948, in
Tagebücher.

41  
Coal cars: ‘Russian Tightens Berlin Grip; Halts Coal Cars From West’,
The New York Times
, 16 Jun 1948.

Soviet representative walks out: ‘Russians Walk Out Of Berlin Meeting’,
The New York Times
, 17 Jun 1948. (The representative left as a protest against the fact that Colonel Frank Howley had left, deputing to his deputy, which the Soviets considered ‘rude’).

‘Our insistence on’, ‘It is absolutely’: TM, diary, 17 Jun 1948, in
Tagebücher.

‘American despotism’: TM, diary, 18 Jun 1948, in
Tagebücher.

42  
Tension over currency: see Collier,
Bridge Across the Sky
, p. 34.

Travel restrictions: ‘Entry to Soviet Zone Barred’,
The New York Times
, 19 Jun 1948.

Transport aircraft: ‘West Turns To Air As Soviet Cuts Off Berlin Land Links’,
The New York Times
, 20 Jun 1948.

‘confusion in Germany’: TM, diary, 20 Jun 1948, in
Tagebücher.

43  
Jazz banned: ‘Russians Ban Jazz Two Days’,
The New York Times
, 21 Jun 1948.

‘as grave as’, ‘in yielding’: ‘Churchill Likens Berlin to Munich; Vows Aid to Bevin’,
The New York Times
, 27 Jun 1948.

44  
‘As the planes’: Colonel Frank Howley, cited in Diana Canwell and Jon Sutherland,
The Berlin Airlift: The Salvation of a City
(Pelican, 2008), p. 38.

14:
The Berlin Airlift

1  
‘If this is a siege’, ‘If this is a war’: HS, ‘Victories’, unpublished article for
New Statesman
, cited in
The Dark and The Bright
, p. 241.

‘We must, if’: Harold Macmillan to the House of Commons, 30 Jun 1948, cited in ‘Bevin Bars Any Surrender if Air Supply of the City Causes “Grave Situation”’,
The New York Times
, 1 Jul 1948.

‘We are in’: George Marshall, cited in ‘Marshall Asserts U.S. Will “Deal Promptly” With Any Issues—Mores B-29s Sent’,
The New York Times
, 1 Jul 1948.

2  
On Furtwängler, see MacDonogh,
After the Reich
, p. 530.

3  
‘The conflict in’, ‘Continual deliveries’: TM, diary, 3 Jul 1948, in
Tagebücher
.

‘slim and more’: TM, diary, 6 Jul 1948, in
Tagebücher
.

4  
‘ghost parade’, ‘Like the hero’: KM, ‘Lecturing in Europe on American Literature’, Dec 1948, KM Archive.

5  
‘the impulse was’: TM to Theodor Adorno, Jul 12 1948, in
Letters of Thomas Mann,
ed. and trans. by Richard and Clara Winston (Alfred A. Knopf, 1971). He also writes here: ‘I am somewhat angry with him for having tried to do that to his mother’, ‘tried to do away’, ‘dégoût and sadness’: EM to Alfred Duff Cooper, 27 Aug 1948, EM Archive.

6  
‘
La difficulté d’être
’, ‘I often find’: KM to Otto Eisner, 12 Aug 1948, KM Archive.

7  
‘sympathy with death’, ‘sweet and deadly’: KM,
The Turning Point
, p. xvii.

8  
‘In the mornings’: KM, diary, 19 Feb 1933, in
Tagebücher
.

‘E stands between’: KM, diary, 27 Oct 1935, KM Archive.

‘the tuna problem’, ‘Her worker, her’: KM, diary, 31 Dec 1935, KM Archive.

‘The craving for’: KM, diary, 22 Oct 1935, KM Archive.

9  
‘many people think’, ‘The roots of’: KM,
The Turning Point
, pp. 68, 80.

10  
‘The baby carriage’, ‘a symbol’, ‘the harbour’, ‘cradle and’, ‘the sleep’: KM,
The Turning Point
, p. 5.

11  
‘what you forfeit’: KM,
The Turning Point
, p. 23.

12  
‘only the parts’: KM, cited in Weiss,
In the
Shadow
, p. 224.

13  
‘Very tense situation’, ‘A few dozen’: TM, diary, 18 Jul 1948, in
Tagebücher
.

14  
‘the moment we’, ‘we shall have’: EM, Town Meeting in Stockton California, 9 Aug 1948 (and broadcast for American Broadcasting Company, 10 Aug), typescript, EM Archive.

15  
‘How can we’, ‘the Germans today’, ‘frightened and nervous’, ‘completely alone’: EM, Town Meeting in Stockton.

16  
‘very courageous’: TM, diary, 10 Aug 1948, in
Tagebücher
.