War Damage (33 page)

sources

I
AM INDEBTED TO
Donald Thomas,
An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War
(London: John Murray, 2003) for information on crime during the war and the austerity period. I am also indebted to Bernard Wasserstein,
Secret War in Shanghai
(London: Profile Books, 1999) and Emily Hahn,
China to Me
(London: Virago, 1978) for material on Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s; to Graham Macklin,
Very Deeply Dyed in Black: Sir Oswald Mosley and the Resurrection of Fascism after 1945
(London: I.B. Tauris, 2007), Richard Thurlow,
Fascism in Britain: A History 1918–1985
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1987) and Trevor Grundy,
Memoir of a Fascist Childhood
(London: Heinemann, 1998) for information about the fascist movement after 1945; to Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska,
Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls and Consumption 1939–1955
(Oxford University Press, 2000), and Michael Sissons and Philip French, eds,
The Age of Austerity
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) for information on the austerity period; to Richard Buckle,
The Adventures of a Ballet Critic
(London: Cresset Press, 1953) for material on the world of ballet; to Olive Renier,
Before the Bonfire
(Shipston-on-Stour: P. Drinkwater, 1984) for a wonderful account of the ‘Ears of Britain'; and to Caroline Cooper for sharing with me her memories of life in Regent's Park Road in the late 1940s.

The account by John Gross in Sissons and French assesses the Sidney Stanley affair rather differently from Donald Thomas, who believes it contributed to the turning of the tide against the Attlee government. John Belcher, a junior minister at the Board of Trade at the time, was forced to resign as a result of the scandal. However, there is no suggestion that he had a mistress, fathered an illegitimate child or was blackmailed.

ALSO BY ELIZABETH WILSON