Darling Monster by Diana Cooper

Author:Diana Cooper [Diana Cooper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

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‘I must get up without coffee, that’s all’

SETTLING IN, FEBRUARY–AUGUST 1948

H.M.S. Ceres

Wetherby Yorks

Undated, March 1945

It’s turned out nice again – the sun beats down from cloudless skies in its most determined record-breaking way, trees are in bud, and Yorkshire is anything but what I expected of it in mid-March. The hounds of spring have really got cracking, and the Navy rejoices. The news comes through that the fleet goes out in force at the beginning of September; several battleships, lots of cruisers and destroyers innumerable are off to the West Indies and British possessions, to show the flag and tell the sordid little Central American states that if they try any funny business they’ll be here today and Guatemala. The whole picnic represents about 230 writers like me. We have every hope, even, of going to South Africa on the way back. If, by some appalling oversight, I don’t make it, there’s always a hope for the Vanguard and the King and Queen, and Australia.1

Lots of love,

John Julius

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