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	SPAIN
		Romilly sent the two to the Army and Navy to be "kitted with the best boots they have, besides a good supply of their warmest underwear." She even presented the two with a scarf she had knitted for her husband during World War One and sent them off with her and her husband's blessing.
		Esmond Romilly felt that he and his comrades "were only playing at soldiers, we were only amateurs." To him this meant that the bombing and shelling were also rather unreal, and he could not believe that there was indeed an enemy scheming how to eliminate him.
		Romilly believed that it was an insult to the men involved to try to hide their fears and failings which is why he included these episodes in his book.
	www.webspotter.com /popboffin/chapter3.htm (8780 words)

	Giles Romilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giles Samuel Bertram Romilly, (September 19, 1916 – August 2, 1967), was a journalist, Nazi POW, brother of Esmond Romilly and nephew of Winston Churchill.
		Romilly was the first German prisoner to be classified as Prominente, prisoners regarded by Adolf Hitler to be of great value due to their relationships to prominent Allied political figures.
		Romilly did successfully escape however, whilst the Prominente were staying at "Oflag VIII-D" Tittmoning Castle, The camp was home to some Dutch officers, and two of these rappeled down the castle walls with Romilly, while the remainder of the Prominente hid in the castle in hopes of conveying the impression that they had all escaped.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giles_Romilly (437 words)

	Esmond Romilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Esmond Marcus David Romilly, (June 10, 1918–November 30, 1941), was a well-born British socialist and anti-fascist.
		Esmond moved to London, working in a Communist bookshop and founding a centre for other boys who had "escaped" from public schools.
		The news that his plane had gone missing in action was broken to his wife Jessica Mitford by Churchill personally; she took many months to accept that he had died.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esmond_Romilly (537 words)

	SPAIN
		The Romilly boys had persuaded their father, a retired Colonel, to send them to Wellington rather than one of the more affluent public schools because at the time they were attracted by its militaristic reputation.
		With Romilly at the centre there was a group of committed public school boys (and girls) whose main concerns included the mandatory nature of the OTC, the repression of sexuality in schools and the rising appeal of Fascism in public schools.
		Romilly was also a speaker at anti-Fascist rallies and in activities such as these came into contact with other types of young men with whom he formed networks.
	www.webspotter.com /popboffin/chapter2.htm (2191 words)

	Jessica Mitford
		When the couple returned to England Esmond Romilly found work as a copywriter for a small advertising agency in London, whereas Jessica was employed in market research.
		Esmond had been in the news for some years, ever since he had run away from Wellington, his public school, at the age of fifteen to work in a Communist bookshop where with other runaways he plotted the editing, production and distribution of a magazine designed to foment rebellion in all the public schools.
		Esmond and the other survivor, ill with dysentery and battle fatigue, were sent back to England, entrusted with the heartbreaking task of visiting the relatives of the dead.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPmitford.htm (3283 words)

	Esmond Romilly
		Romilly was eventually arrested and after his mother had told the judge that he was uncontrollable he was sentenced to a six-week term in a Remand Home for delinquent boys.
		When Romilly returned to England he found work as a copywriter for a small advertising agency in London, whereas Jessica was employed in market research.
		Esmond had an infallible nose for the cheapest possible accommodation, and we stayed in Bayonne in a small hotel, crowded with Basque refugee families from the northern part of Spain.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPromilly.htm (1289 words)

	Esmond Romilly
		Esmond convinced their host that Decca was ill, and they should stay the night.
		No such sign in fact existed; Esmond elaborately invented it as a way of notifying our friends at home that he was not about to be drawn in as part of a war machine whose purpose was as yet indistinct.
		No earlier Esmond would have allowed himself to be so emotionally forthright, and I had a sudden superstitious fear that by admitting his own goodness of heart he had made himself vulnerable; that this, without his knowing it, might be a preparation for his own death.
	www.monitor.net /monitor/decca/esmond.html (1985 words)

	Shrieks
		The elopement, with her cousin, Esmond Romilly, was a successful scandal, in that it led to a very happy marriage, but Jessica's life in the family's group portrait was over.
		("Esmond was disturbingly successful as a Silkform salesman.") He took a bartending course that would come in hand when the couple reached Miami - having taking the wrong fork in the road on their way to New Orleans, which they never got to.
		Both Esmond and I would have scouted the idea that anything in our conduct was remotely attributable either to heredity or to upbringing, for, like most people, we regarded ourselves as "self-made," free agents in every respect, the products of our own actions and decisions.
	www.portifex.com /ReadingMatter/shrieks.htm (8160 words)

	Mitford
		Here, Jessica (called Decca by her family) met Esmond Romilly, a year younger that herself but already a veteran of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, a runaway whose mother had told the court she could no longer control him, and a confirmed antiFascist.
		But when she and her husband received the news of the invasion of France in May 1940, Esmond resolved to join the Canadian Royal Air Force in defense of Britain and Decca went to stay with friends in Washington D. C., for she was pregnant again.
		Esmond was reported missing in action in November of that year, and never returned.
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/mitford.html (1291 words)

	Jessica Mitford - Philosopedia
		When nineteen, she ran away from home with a second cousin, Esmond Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill, getting cut out of her father’s will.
		Romilly, who joined the Canadian Air Force, was killed in action in 1941.
		Romilly joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II and was killed in 1941 during a raid over Nazi Germany.
	philosopedia.org /index.php?title=Jessica_Mitford (861 words)

	HPL: Essays - Is Dobby a Communist? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Her first appearance in the memoir comes when Jessica Mitford recalls the term 'Real Communist', as it was used by her first husband, Esmond Romilly.
		Romilly, another upper-class English radical and a nephew of Winston Churchill, was killed in action during the War.
		Romilly had written that 'Real Communist' "...was a purely personal definition I applied instinctively...to fit it you had to be a serious person of single-aim sincerity, a rigid disciplinarian lacking in any selfish motives...".
	www.hp-lexicon.org /essays/essay-is-dobby-a-communist.html (625 words)

	UK Independent - Robert Treuhaft>
		Robert Edward Treuhaft, lawyer: born New York 8 August 1912; married 1943 Jessica Romilly (née Mitford, died 1996; one son, and one son deceased); died New York 11 November 2001.
		Suffering from epilepsy, he was not accepted by the army when he volunteered in 1943, much to his disappointment; but it was at this time that he first met, in Washington DC, Jessica Mitford, who was a young widow with a small daughter, Constancia ("Dinky"): her husband, Esmond Romilly, had been shot down over Germany.
		In characteristic fighting spirit, he requested that all contributions in his memory should be given to the continuing Cuban sanction-busting campaign of his piano-tuner son, Benjamin Treuhaft: "Send a Piana to Havana", 39 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003, USA.
	www.mitford.org /indep.html (1165 words)

	Writing.Com: Burrowing into My Life (Book)
		Jessica Mitford's memoir about her exceedingly liberal decision to run away with Winston Churchill's nephew, Esmond Romilly, was the book that got me back into writing after months of turbulence and devastation from my illness.
		She came across a book by Esmond and how he and his friends - Peter and Giles - escaped from a prestigious English school for boys to form a group of runaways to support Liberalism and fight in the Spanish Civil War.
		Esmond died in a plane crash in November 1941 at the age of twenty-three.
	www.writing.com /main/books/item_id/1037033/day/6-26-2006 (1395 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| Decca by Jessica Mitford
		Jessica Mitford was one of a clutch of children born to the eccentric Lord and Lady Redesdale.
		In bold contrast [to her four famous sisters], Jessica eloped with a Communist nephew of Winston Churchill’s named Esmond Romilly, fled to Spain to support the Republican cause, and emigrated to the United States as the Second World War was approaching.
		Romilly enlisted in the Canadian air force and returned to Europe to fight.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375410321 (2983 words)

	Amazon.fr : Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford: Livres en anglais: Jessica Mitford,Peter Y. Sussman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During the 1930s, Decca took off to fight on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War with her boyfriend and eventual husband, Esmond Romilly.
		Esmond's uncle, Winston Churchill, told Decca that there was no hope of her 23-year-old husband being found alive.
		Decca's activism naturally passed on to her daughter Constancia (by Romilly), who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and became the partner of its leader, James Forman, by whom she eventually had two sons.
	www.amazon.fr /Decca-Letters-Jessica-Mitford/dp/0375410325 (1409 words)

	Salon: Farewell, Lady Decca
		In the late 1930s Decca eloped with Esmond Romilly, nephew of Winston Churchill.
		Later Decca and Esmond went to Spain, and Churchill sent a destroyer to try to get them out of the war zone.
		Romilly was killed in a bombing raid on Hamburg and Decca married the Oakland-based labor lawyer Bob Truehaft, who survives her.
	www.salon.com /weekly/mitford960805.html (855 words)

	NYRB Classics: Hons and Rebels
		Jessica Mitford (1917–1996) was the daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale, and she and her five sisters and one brother grew up in isolation on their parents' Cotswold estate.
		Rebelling against her family's hidebound conservatism, Mitford became an outspoken socialist and, with her second cousin and husband-to-be Esmond Romilly, ran away to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
		Romilly was killed in World War II, and Mitford moved to America, where she married the lawyer and political activist Robert Treuhaft.
	www.nybooks.com /shop/product?product_id=4154 (638 words)

	The New Yorker : critics : books
		Mitford’s real destination was war-torn Spain, which she intended to reach after eloping with her second cousin Esmond Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill’s who had achieved a precocious stardom through both his flamboyant rebellion against British public-school culture and his later service with the International Brigade defending Madrid.
		Shown the letter of invitation, Mitford’s mother, Lady Redesdale, let her daughter slip out of England, and before long Decca and Romilly were in Loyalist Bilbao, transmitting news of the Spanish war for a press bureau that had taken them on.
		Esmond and Decca sponged and schemed and odd-jobbed their way up and down the East Coast; he stole cigars from Katharine Graham’s father and then borrowed a thousand dollars from him to finance a share in a Miami restaurant.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles/061016crbo_books1 (2265 words)

	Esmond Marcus David Romilly (1918-1941), Writer
		Along with brother Giles fought with the International Brigade in Spain and later in the Second World War.
		Esmond ran away from Wellington College, declared himself a Communist and began publishing the subversive periodical, Out of Bounds.
		At the age of 18 he went to Spain and fought at Boadilla, a subject on which he later based his account by the same name.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp51778 (124 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford by Jessica Mitford, reviewed by The Atlantic ...
		In bold contrast, so to say, Jessica eloped with a Communist nephew of Winston Churchill's named Esmond Romilly, fled to Spain to support the Republican cause, and emigrated to the United States as the Second World War was approaching.
		The couple had lost one child to illness, had a second one just after Romilly enlisted in the Canadian air force and returned to Europe to fight, and lost another to miscarriage just before his plane went down over the North Sea.
		She, in turn, told him that he was grossly in error to have given her sister Diana Mosley, along with Diana's Fascist husband, special treatment in the prison in which they were interned.
	www.powells.com /review/2006_11_21.html (1564 words)

	Review: Decca - Culture - International Herald Tribune
		They registered a drastic swing of the Mitford political compass when Jessica, 17 and an impassioned leftist, eloped to Spain with Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's nephew, to join the republican side in the Civil War.
		Decca migrated with Esmond to the United States, where they lived a happy mix of mild bohemianism and social butterflying.
		When Esmond returned to Britain as a fighter pilot and was killed, Decca worked for a fashionable dress shop, and later for the wartime Office of Price Control.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/11/20/features/booktue.php (768 words)

	Mitford Mania
		Decca grew very tired of this oppressive way of life very quickly - she decribes the house as a "fortress" in her autobiography Daughters and Rebels, ruled over by her exceedingly strict father with his fierce rages.
		As soon as she could she began saving her "running-away" money, and rebelliously turned to socialism, eloping to Spain with young reporter Esmond Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill, to help support the Republican cause.
		Jessica and Esmond settled in America in 1939 where Esmond became a political journalist.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_social_history/24430 (494 words)

	TIME.com: -- Apr. 3, 1939 -- Page 1
		Romilly, Winston Churchill's 18-year-old nephew, scandalized his Tory family by packing off to Spain to fight for the Loyalists.
		Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond.
		Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,771631,00.html (689 words)

	Graham Stevenson: R to S - Compendium of Communist Biography by surname
		The nephew of Winston Churchill, Romilly was born in 1918.
		On his release Romilly joined forces to publish the book Out of Bounds: The Education of Giles and Esmond Romilly (1935).
		Romilly fought in the defence of Madrid but by December 1936 all but two of the English group had been killed or seriously wounded.
	graham.thewebtailor.co.uk /archives/000089.html (21523 words)

	Class Consciousness
		In 1960 Mitford is still approvingly quoting her first husband, Esmond Romilly, as saying that Winston Churchill (his uncle) was interested in fighting Germany and Italy only because of the threat they posed to British imperialism.
		And no one should discount the terrible losses Mitford suffered: two children, an infant girl born to her and Romilly, and later her and Treuhaft's 10-year-old son, Nicholas, who was killed by a bus.
		In World War II she lost not only Romilly but her brother Tom and, in a sense, most of her family.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20061211/taylor/2 (1119 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Serious Undertaking
		Jessica Mitford's "The American Way of Death," published in 1963 and again in 1998, made much of the math of caskets and oddments of the funeral biz, most of which she pulled from the pages of Mortuary Management -- a trade magazine still being read in the new HBO show.
		Of course, Mitford's own experiences of death -- her first husband, Esmond Romilly, died when his plane crashed into the North Sea in World War II, and her first son, Nicholas, was killed at age 10 in an accident in California -- were never mentioned in either the original or updated text.
		Indeed, Nicholas, who was delivering newspapers on a bike when a bus ran him down, is never even mentioned in the two volumes of Mitford's autobiography.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A23570-2001Aug2?language=printer (1216 words)

	Bay Area Events
		As a teenager she ran away from her largely fascist family, eloping with Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's "red nephew," to the Spanish Civil War.
		Two years later, they came to America, where Decca worked variously as a bartender in Miami, a clerk on Madison Avenue, a saleslady in a Washington dress shop, and always as a wife and mother scrambling to earn a living.
		In 1941, while Decca was living at the epicenter of New Deal Washington, Romilly was killed in a bombing raid on hamburg.
	www.globalexchange.org /getInvolved/bayarea.php?uid=6364 (578 words)

	Mitford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) Best known as the author of The American Way of Death (1963), Jessica Mitford came to the United States in February 1939, one year after being disinherited by her British family for running off to Spain to marry her cousin.
		From New York, she and her husband, Esmond Romilly, received the news of the invasion of France.
		Esmond joined the Canadian Royal Air Force in defense of Britain, was reported missing in action in November of 1941, and never returned.
	www2.sjsu.edu /depts/english/Mitford.htm (298 words)

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