The Great Silence (49 page)

Maggs, Guardsman J.,
62

Magill, Ivan,
59

make-up (cosmetics),
158
–9,
178

Manley, Sister,
135

Mansfield, Katherine,
249

Maria Feodorovna, Dowager Empress of Russia,
82

Marie, Queen of Romania,
104

Markham, Sir Charles,
231

Markievicz, Constance, Countess,
75
,
168

Marlborough
, HMS,
82

marriage: and remarriage,
45
–7

Marshall, Albert (‘Smiler’),
22

Mary, Princess,
15

Mary, Queen: contributes to Sidcup hospital,
57
;

attends Hyde Park assembly of returned soldiers,
72
;

hair turns grey,
87
;

lifestyle,
87
–8;

and death of son John,
88
–90;

at court balls,
104
;

and Peace Parade,
110
–11;

at Balmoral,
120
;

dress,
162
;

welcomes Prince of Wales back from overseas tour,
162
–3;

at Macmillan wedding,
228
;

distress at ceremony of Unknown Warrior,
273

Masefield, John,
255

masks
see
faces

Massine, Léonide,
216
–17

Massingham, H. J.,
176

Matisse, Henri,
216

Means Test,
3

Meaton, John,
68

Melba, Dame Nellie,
103
,
214
–15

Meller, Raquel,
236

Melsom, Lieutenant Robert,
66

Memoir Club,
258

mental trauma: symptoms,
63
–4;

treatment,
65
–7

Meuse: US soldiers killed on Armistice Day,
27

Meyrick, Kate,
160

Michelin Tyre Company,
99

Mills & Boon (publishers),
207

Mills, Captain W B.,
86

Mitford family,
212

Mitford, Nancy,
39
,
212

Mitford, Pamela,
212

Mitford, Thomas (Tom),
38
–9,
211
–13

Moate, Henry,
192
-3

Mond, Sir Alfred,
109
,
264
-5

Moore, G. E.,
111

Morning Post
,
263

Morrell, Julian,
237

Morrell, Lady Ottoline,
34
,
137
,
233
-41,
249

Morrell, Philip,
233
–4

Mosley, (Sir) Oswald,
35
,
169

motor-cars,
9
,
196
,
200

Moule, Handley Carr Glyn, Bishop of Durham,
86

Mountbatten, Lord Louis
(later
1st Earl),
258

movies
see
films

Muir, Corporal Ward,
59

Murphy, Revd Mr (of St Matthew’s, Bayswater),
144

Murray, George,
160

music,
8
,
61
,
151
-2,
155

music hall songs,
9

Mussolini, Benito,
106

Myers, C. S.,
65

Neale, Lucy,
209

New York: anticipates war’s end,
30

Newcastle upon Tyne: housing shortage,
80

Newman’s (band),
227

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia,
82

Nicholson, Nancy (Mrs Robert Graves),
172
-3,
256

Nicolson, Ben,
250

Nicolson, Sir Harold: at war’s end,
29
;

and Versailles Treaty,
106
-8,
116
;

and wife Vita’s affair with Violet Trefusis,
250

Nicolson, Nigel,
250

night clubs,
153
,
156
-7

Nijinsky, Vaslav,
216

Noakes, George,
132

Noakes, Tom,
49
,
176

Nodes (undertaker),
267

Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount,
254

Novello, Ivor,
45
,
152

occult: belief in,
97
–8

Onions, Maude,
12
,
26
–7,
33
,
42
,
93

opera: revival,
103
–4

Original Dixieland Jazz Band,
155
–7,
251

Orlando, Vittorio,
107

Orpen, Sir William,
242
,
252

Osborne, E. P.,
67

Otford, Kent,
22

Ovaltine,
177

Owen, Susan and Tom,
32

Owen, Wilfred,
16
,
32
,
66
-7,
220
;

‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ (poem),
18

Oxford University: women undergraduates,
8
,
254
–5

Oxo,
94

Pall Mall Gazette
,
163

Palmer, Herbert Alfred,
62

Pals Battalions,
14

Pankhurst, Christabel,
74

Parade
(ballet),
217

Paris: on Armistice Day 1918,
28
;

Peace Conference and Treaty (1919),
85
,
106
,
115

Parish, Ethel,
92

Parish, Pam,
49
-51,
124
,
143
,
213

Parish, Stella,
124

Parliament: women in,
167
–71

patriotism,
17

Paxton, Sir Joseph,
224
–5

Peace Parade,
108
–11,
121
–2

Peacehaven, Sussex,
81

Peelings (house), Pevensey, Sussex,
222
–3

Pelmanism,
98

Pembroke, Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of,
251

Pershing, General John Joseph,
27

Petty-Fitzmaurice, Charles,
45

Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry,
46

Picasso, Pablo,
216
-18

Pickford, Mary,
228

Ping Yoo, Ada Song,
134

plastic surgery,
55
-61

Pleasley near, Bolsover,
226

Poiret, Paul,
173
,
175

police: strikes,
79
,
130

Poplar: life in,
122

Portland, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of,
157
,
159

Portland, Winifred, Duchess of,
175

poverty: prevalence,
3

Pratt, Herman,
84

Pridham, First Lieutenant Sir Francis,
82

promiscuity,
160
–1

prostitutes: in Great War,
23
–4;

increase,
160
-1

Proust, Marcel,
107

Punch
(magazine),
159
,
191

Pyddoke, Revd Mr (of Pleasley),
226

race relations,
129
,
131

Rafter, Eileen,
207
-8

Ragas, Harry,
155

ragtime (dance music),
155

Railton, Revd David,
266
,
270

rationing: reduced and abolished,
102

Rawlinson, General Sir Henry,
14

Rector’s (club),
153

Reeves Smith, Sir George (Savoy Hotel manager),
186

Reid, Hilda,
260

remembrance, act of (two-minutes’ silence),
140
-7,
272

Renton, John,
46

Representation of the People Act (1918),
74

Restoration of Pre-War Practices Act (1919),
188

Reynolds, Harry,
62

Richardson, Private John,
42

Richardson, Philip,
154

Riddell, George Allardice, Baron,
254

Ripon, Constance Gladys, Marchioness of,
103
,
152

Rivers, Dr William,
66
-7,
245

Roberts, Mrs Robert,
161
,
249

Roberts, Robert,
161
,
171

Robey, George,
156

Roe, Humphrey,
123

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
83

Royal Society of Medicine: opposes contraception,
125

Rubinstein, Arthur,
137

Rugby school,
53

Russell, Bertrand,
233
,
239

Russia: Bolshevik Revolution (1917),
71
,
85
;

British troops in Civil War (1918-19),
76
,
177

Rutherford, Lieutenant Colonel Norman,
68

Rutland, Violet, Duchess of,
111
,
114

Ryle, Rt Revd Herbert, Dean of Westminster,
266

Sackville, Victoria, Lady,
84
,
109
,
113
,
189

Sackville-West, Vita,
36
,
109
,
250

Saint-Pol-sur-Ternois, France,
267

Salford: prostitutes in,
161
;

Roberts’ shop 111,
161
,
171
,
249

Sargent, John Singer,
18
,
252

Sassoon, Siegfried: on waking,
1
;

war service,
23
;

disgust at Armistice celebrations,
33
;

on noise of passing shell,
50
–6;

treated by William Rivers,
66
;

on survivors,
183
;

relations with Ottoline Morrell,
233
–4;

disapproves of unknown soldier proposal,
267
;

‘Blighters’ (poem),
20
–1;

‘Suicide in the Trenches’ (poem),
17

Satie, Erik,
217

Saturday Review
,
168
,
182

Savory & Moore (chemists),
134

Savoy Hotel, London: and influenza epidemic,
94
;

bookings and popularity,
154
–5,
187
;

Christmas shopping service,
178
;

Christmas menu,
181
;

Reeves Smith manages,
186
;

staff unrest,
187
-8,
218
;

Ballets Russes dancers stay at,
218

Sayers, Dorothy L.,
259

Schell, Sherrill,
53

Schmidt’s restaurant, London,
84