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is a bloody shame.
Tuesday Dec 16th And I had an A.G. today, dated Nov 1st, which
is 6 1/2 weeks to get here. It is too silly - & they call it the
All Air Routes. You said how ready & willing you were
to come out here, to me, providing the journey would not
do Maxie any harm. You are magnificent, my darling -
& wonderful - to be willing to go to any reasonable
limits to come & join me wherever I am. Even
if my application to come home is unsuccessful, & you
are not able to join me, I shall always remember that
you wanted to & tried to. But I am not considering
that seriously yet, by one means or another we [will underlined]
beat the forces which keep us apart.
I have had one interruption after another tonight.
I have written the few lines above between 8-30 & 11-30.
Goodnight sweetest Barbara. XXX H.
Thursday Dec 18th I went into Tel Aviv yesterday afternoon in
order to buy Christmas presents for the Hopkins, then I go
to stay with them. I had not the faintest intentions of
staying there for more than an hour or so _ & then I saw
a poster showing that Bette Davis in "The Letter" was on;
& I remembered you saying what a wonderful film you
had thought it to be. & so I did not hesitate. Ben had
come in too, as it was his wife's birthday, & so the three
of us went together. I thought it was 1st class & Bette
Davis' performance was tremendous. She was on the
screen practically every moment of the time, & I simply
cannot imagine anyone else being one quarter as good.
I wonder what Gladys Cooper thought of it?
I had some quite good news today - a letter from
Col Leicester to say that he was passing on my