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6th July
REVOLT IN ROUMANIA. Express
10th July, 53
BERIA TRIED AND SHOT. Express
27th July, 1953
KOREAN CEASE-FIRE. Express
7th August, 1953
MASS POW RIOT. Mass rioting by 12,000 North Korean p.o.w. was put down by UN guards using tear-gas and small arms fire. Express
20th Aug., 1953
300 dead in coup. Persia. Express
19th Feb., 1954
Britain has A-bomb stock-pile now. Express
27th March, 1954
2nd H-BOMB IS DELAYED — Isles still too hot from blast No. 1. Express
30th March
2nd H-BOMB EXPLODED. Express
[And now the personal entries began again.]
2nd April, 1954
I realized today that I was beginning to withdraw from what Mrs Marks calls my ‘experience’ with her; and because of something she said; she must have known it for some time. She said: ‘You must remember that the end of an analysis does not mean the end of the experience itself.’ ‘You mean, the yeast goes on working?’ She smiled and nodded.
4th April, 1954
I had the bad dream again — I was menaced by the anarchic principle, this time in the shape of an inhuman sort of dwarf. In the dream was Mrs Marks, very large and powerful; like a kind of amiable witch. She heard the dream out, and said: ‘When you are on your own, and you are threatened, you must summon the good witch to your aid.’ ‘You,’ I said. ‘No, you, embodied in what you have made of me.’ So the thing is over, then. It was as if she had said: Now you are on your own. For she spoke casually, indifferently almost, like someone turning away. I admired the skill of this; it was as if, on leave-taking, she were handing me something — a flowering branch, perhaps, or a talisman against evil.
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