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Confessions of a Biographer on the Difficulties of Telling Truths Or, Footnotes to the Lives Ofnye Bevan, Freud, Jung, Havelock Ellis, H Vincent Brome Confessions of a Biographer On the Difficulties of Telling Truths or, Footnotes to the lives ofNye Bevan, Freud, Jung, Havelock Ellis, H. G. Wells, Frank Harris HEN I MENTIONED TO Winston Churchill that I was makes me feel like the patient under the surgeon's knife writing a biography of Aneurin Bevan he said, "My without anaesthetic^ W God, biography used to be one of the dangers of One particular passage brought a look of distaste to his face. death—now you are making it one of the dangers of life!" This It concerned his early days as a young MP when he shared a flat was in the year 1947 when Bevan, as Minister of Health, with the journalist Frank Owen in Gloucester Road, London, became involved in gladiatorial battles with Lord Hill, and their intellectual Bohemianism included not only some secretary of the British Medical Association, and their delay in paying the £2 a week rent but a number of affairs exchanges sometimes involved four-letter words as they common to distinguished young men in many walks of life. struggled to launch the National Health Service. They were two big, formidable personalities, liable to stay up I began the biography with Aneurin Bevan's full half the night arguing and it became customary for one to say to collaboration, but the book emerged emasculated because it the other when the rent was overdue, "Have you paid that rent was published against his wishes and the lawyers were in fear of yet (Owen) (Bevan)?" Each had a separate room and when a £100,000 libel suit. one or other was not to be disturbed he hung his hat on the right The first stage of an elaborate stalling process began when he or left of the hat-stand which stood in the passageway between received the finished manuscript. He took six months to read it them. The old-fashioned hat-stand had tall antler arms and and then a whole range of carefully disguised censoring Owen said, with some exaggeration, "Before we left one side weapons was brought to bear until he finally summoned me to of the antlers was worn down to relatively thumb-nail pro- his presence. Originally Bevan agreed that I should write the portions. You guess whose side that was." biography on the understanding that I did not attempt to After the interview with Bevan a series of letters flowed romanticise his life within a boot-black-to-president frame- beginning with "Dear Vincent" and slowly deteriorating until a work. I traced his early notebooks, read many unpublished chilly "Dear Sir" prefaced paragraphs which could be read as letters, interviewed friends and enemies, and encountered his menacing. From subsequent telephone conversations he was formidable mother, a woman with the presence of royalty who clearly prepared to go to considerable lengths to stop pub- said, "You tell that damned son of mine that I haven't seen him lication of the book. The lawyers now went to work on the for six months and God help him when I do." manuscript. Confronted with a rich publisher who wants com- Bevan now complained that I had not kept to my brief but plete protection against any form of legal proceedings, lawyers this was not the real reason for what became in effect attempted can become paranoiac and the logic of their censorship in- assassination of the book. At this critical interview the real explicable. For instance, in one of several prolonged interviews reason was cloaked in a smokescreen of alternative objections. with Bevan, I had asked him to tell me—bluntly—what he He was, he said, in the middle of negotiating the Health Service thought of Winston Churchill, and he began, "Looked at and certain "revelations" of mine might give Lord Hill objectively Mr Churchill is a man who should be charged with devastating ammunition. manslaughter but he can never be brought to trial because the "You see", he said, stuttering slightly, as was natural to a causal connection between his policies and the deaths involved man remarkably sensitive in some situations, "this manuscript can be explained away. After all, when he childishly interfered with the running of the British Navy in the last War his incred- ible ineptitude in seafaring matters skilfully sank three capital VINCENT BROME is the author, among many other books, of eight ships in a few days with the loss of hundreds of lives. When I biographies: "Clement Attlee" (1947), "H. G. Wells" (1951), mildly rebuked him for this in the House of Commons he "Aneurin Bevan" (1953), "Frank Harris" (1959), "Freud and His retorted, 'Mr Bevan is a merchant of disloyalty', and I replied, Early Circle" (1967), "Havelock Ellis: Philosopher of Sex" (1978), 'Better than being a wholesaler of disaster.' " "Jung, Man and Myth" (1978), and "Jones: Freud's Alter Ego" (1983). We were strongly advised by the lawyers to remove the greater part of this passage. Bevan had followed this first 35 PRODUCED 2005 BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 36 Confessions of a Biographer onslaught on Churchill with a second. Mr Churchill, he said, is and a woman are normally necessary to the sexual act. Since a "man suffering from petrified adolescence. He is a first-class there are only two votes abstention would be undemocratic." actor who, like most actors, does not think but uses pictures The editors now felt that on a question of taste these, too, instead of thoughts. When the drums roll and the flags fly tears should not be included in the book. Three other passages were come into his eyes. He cannot control such reactions at the eventually modified in the manuscript. One spoke of the ease sound of a bugle whether it is for the Last Post or the first with which he could lapse into laziness and never resigned from victory. He really has the values of a boy still in his teens but he the Party until he was certain of re-entry by the back door. cunningly clothes them in rolling phrases whose splendour Another told the story of Gaitskell, as Chancellor of the conceals their essential immaturity. Intelligence . yes— Exchequer, trying to cut thirteen millions from the funding of he has a kind of intelligence but no intellect. Emotions, yes— Aneurin Bevan's only child—the Health Service. Bevan had he has emotions but they belong to his petrified adolescence." come to his feet in committee and said, "I will resign if this It was the publishers' turn now to intervene. They suggested measure is carried—I'm worth more than thirteen million to that this was a gratuitously offensive description of Churchill the Labour Party." Whereupon Gaitskell was heard muttering which the Grand Old Man might ride out with magnificent "Such an unlucky number." scorn, but members of his family would be very upset. I decided The third was given me by Francis Williams, a socialist to go and see Churchill. At that time he was moodily himself and a penetrating political analyst. "It was un- preoccupied with trying to preserve his physical and political fortunate", he said, "that he went to all those weekends at image, a glorious and still eloquent ruin of his former self. Lord Beaverbrook's country house with all those fancy people. When I indicated that Bevan had given me a "careful It didn't do him any good to be seen disporting himself at the assessment" of his personality and asked for his view of Bevan swimming pool with beautiful actresses. For a serious politician he thought for a moment and said "It's very simple really. The of the Left he seemed oddly attracted by the dubious laurels to man is a slave to scurrility." This phrase in turn aroused the be won as a licensed jester at Lord Beaverbrook's dinner suspicion of the lawyers. It might be construed as libellous. table." In fact, of course, at one such weekend he informed But this was only the beginning. Lord Beaverbrook that, come the Revolution, "You're one of the first to hang from the nearest lamp post", and Lord Beaverbrook laughed uneasily. T so HAPPENED TBAT I was having a brief affair with a woman in the Labour Party at the time I wrote the biography and I N THE END Bevan never explicitly stated why he was so I discovered that she was simultaneously a "close friend" of strongly against publication of the book but someone very Aneurin Bevan's. An ultra-sophisticate in sexual matters, I close to him told me that he regarded it as too critical. The Bevan had no time to spare for romantic preliminaries and on book did in fact predict that if he won his battle against Attlee his second meeting with this beautiful and very clever woman and later Hugh Gaitskell he was likely to become a very distin- he invited her to his room in the House of Commons. Whether guished Prime Minister of England. he actually locked the door of his room or not remained some- One final attempt was made to suppress the book. Tele- what ambiguous but certainly he turned to her and said with the phoning Mark Longman, the chairman of Longman Green & calmness of a high court judge "Tell me—where would you Company, publishers, he now said, "You wouldn't of course like to be taken?" be publishing this book to make money." Mark Longman She said, "Preferably to the Ritz": but it was certainly not replied "Well yes, but we also regard it as intrinsically a good the Ritz which he had in mind.
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