Joyce's War (32 page)
Authors: Joyce Ffoulkes Parry
37.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: ‘Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs/And as silently steal away’.
38.
John O’London’s
started in 1919 and ran until 1954. It was a popular literary journal with a circulation of 80,000 at its peak.
Horizon:
A Review of Literature and the Arts
was founded by Cyril Connolly and ran until 1949 with a circulation of around 9,000.
39.
A vehicle used to transport personnel and equipment or as a machine-gun platform.
40.
John Lehmann started
New Writing
in 1936, and then it became
Penguin New Writing
which ran from 1940 to 1946. It was committed to publishing writing that was anti-fascist.
41.
W.B. Yeats: ‘When you are Old’.
42.
Robert Burns: ‘Man was made to Mourn’.
43.
A small Arab coin.
44.
Capital of Ceylon, now capital of Sri Lanka.
45.
Now Jakarta, Indonesia.
46.
A small unit of Indian currency.
47.
Joyce sailed on February 8th 1937 on the
Mongolia
from Australia
to the UK to visit friends and family in Wales, where she worked until the outbreak of war.
48.
A small light armed warship.
49.
The name of Indonesia before the Second World War.
50.
Milton,
Paradise Lost
: ‘Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks/ In Vallombrosa where Etrurian shades/ High over-arch’d embower.’
51.
Indians from the province of Madras.
52.
A non-commissioned officer equivalent to a sergeant.
53.
Sevastopol, Ukraine.
54.
The Aleutians are volcanic islands in the northern Pacific Ocean.
55.
220 miles off Yemen.
56.
In Libya.
57.
By John Cowper Powys.
58.
Anne Ridler,
A Little Book of Modern Verse
, 1941.
59.
John Masefield: ‘Sea Fever’.
60.
A journey of 1,035 miles.
61.
The Old Monastery, Calcutta.
62.
A drug for treating malaria.
63.
A journey of over 800 miles.
64.
Khalil Gibran.
65.
Actually the son was Aurangzeb.
66.
A type of headdress.
67.
The Welsh word for homesickness.
68.
A play by Emlyn Williams.
69.
‘Dafydd’ is the Welsh form of ‘David’.
70.
German and Italian troops surrendered in north Africa in May.
71.
The Bengal Entertainment Services Association, founded in 1939 to provide entertainment for the British troops.
72.
Thomas Gray: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’.
73.
Now Dhaka, Bangladesh – a distance of 207 miles.
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