On page 356 of his autobiography The Time Of My Life Mr Healey writes: “I decided that Paul Jacobs was right in saying that there are only a hundred real people on the world, and you come across them wherever you go!” Since there are 117 friends (mainly ‘good’, ‘close’, ‘personal’, ‘special’, or ‘lifelong’) identified in this work – and many others merely hinted at – one can only assume that some of Mr Healey’s friends were not real at all.
13 Allan Bullock
25 Gordon Griffiths
26 ‘Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India also sent men who became my close friends through life’
27 Alex Kafka
36 Gilbert Murray
51 George Farnell-Bourne
58 Jack Donaldson
59 Denis Greenhill, Val Duncan, Marcus Sieff
64 Tony Crosland
69 Andrew Shonfield
71 Billy Chappell, Basil Burton, Angus Wilson
73 Len Murray, Frank Cousins, George Woodcock
76 Walter Wodak, Frank Malfatti, Raimondo Mazzini
77 Eero Wuori
79 Leo Pliatzky
90 Teddy Kollek
92 ‘close friendship with some of the Burmese socialists’; Jayaprayash Narayan
107 Gladwyn Jebb, Evelyn Shuckburgh
111 Howard K Smith, David and Anne Linebaugh
113 Sam and Margie Berger
118 Willy Brandt
119 ‘many American friends’
120 Guy Nunn
122 ‘many of my diplomatic friends’; Arthur Schlesinger, Ken Galbraith, Sam Bauer
134 Douglas Gabb
142 ‘among my friends’ Stanley Burton, Fanny Waterman; ‘among all my friends’ Joe and Mary Moynihan; ‘many friends among the protestant clergy’ Ernest Southcott
163 Frank Paterson, Chris Mayhew, Woodrow Wyatt
164 ‘some of my best friends at Königswinter were journalists’; Marion Dönhoff, Peter Pechel, General von Senger and Etterlin
171 Nigel Nicolson, Edward Boyle
199 Paul Nitze, George Ball; ‘my friends in American politics’
200 ‘friends [in NY] were mainly Jewish journalists’; Sol Levitas, Daniel Bell
201 Paul Jacobs
204 Stewart Udall, John Lindsay, Adlai Stevenson
221 ‘I met in Uganda many of the friends I had made in West Africa earlier in the year’
223 ‘I myself had friends among the white settlers in Central Africa’; Winston Field, Roy Welensky, Michael Blundell
224 ‘friends among the African leaders’; Oliver Tambo
227 ‘friends in the Commonwealth embassies’
231 Peter Ratcliffe, Dennis Bloodworth, Tom Harrison
238 ‘My friends and I were meeting almost weekly to produce … On Limiting Atomic War’
240 George Kennan, Pat Blackett
247 ‘two of my best friends’ Jack Slessor, Ralph Cochrane Helmut Schmidt
253 George and Grace Thomson
254 Frank and Kitty Giles, Denys Lasdun, Pat Gibson
268 Pat Nairne
291 ‘the top civil servants in Canberra … remained my friends for many years’ Harry Bland, Jim Plimsoll
316 Henry Kissinger
319 Manlio Brosio, Fausto Bacchetti, Arthur Hockaday
327 ‘count on a few friends outside the external departments’ Charlie Pannell
344 Ernie Southcott
352 Vic Feather
355 Robert Birley
359 Douglas Gibbs
365 Owen Lattimore
386 Pat Gibson, Jack Donaldson, George and Mary Christie, Emilio Colombo
390 Sidney Dell, Edmund Dell
403 Miles Fitzalan Howard
405 Felix Baumgartner
414 Karl-Günther von Hase, Phil Kaiser
421 Manfred Lahnstein, Johannes Witteveen, Bob McNamara
424 Muhammed Abu al-Khail, Abdul-Aziz al Quraishi, Hisham Nazir
451 Fukuda
452 Bob Hormats
476 Jack Gallivan
546 de la Rosière, Paul Volcker; ‘new friends, particularly among the private bankers’ Minos Zombanakis, ‘renewed many friendships from Saudi Arabia and Tokyo’
547 Wally Brooks, Adam Yarmolinsky
552 Mike Blumenthal, Dave Packard
557 Dr Sam Yen