- GRAHAM GREENE TELLS ABOUT FRENCH HISTORY IN "OUR MAN IN HAVANA" (1958)
"...but the main source of the French intelligence at the time of Dreyfus was a charwoman who collected the scraps out of the waste-paper baskets at the German Embassy.." (p.29)";;;I said I sympathized with the French officers in 1940 who looked after their families ; they didn't anyway put their careers first. " (p.217)
- GRAHAM GREENE HAD A PRESENTIMENT OF THE CUBAN CRISIS IN 1962 :"...Havana could be a key-spot. The Communists always go where there's trouble..." (p.47)"...They've become very active in Cuba - apparently with the help of the police. Our man in Havana has had a difficult time. His best agent, as you know, was killed, accidentallly of course, on his way to take aerial photographs of the constructions..." (p.146)"...Is there anything in Cuba important enough to interest a Secret Service ? Of course we are only a small country, but we lie very close to the American coast. If a country is surrounded, as Russia is, it will try to punch a hole through from inside..." (p.150).