[{"node":{"title":"Greacen035","Collections":"Unpublished Poems","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Greacen035","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"He thought he loved the Vatican","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacen035","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Greacen035_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffWe Thought he Loved the Vatican\n\nSan Juan, Puerto Rico,\nAugust 31.\n\nGraham Greene, the novelist, was detained by the American\nauthorities on arrival frou Haiti. Mr Greene, who was on his\nway to London, will be sent back to Haiti. No reason was given\nfor the action.\n\nManchestor Guardian, September 1, 1954.\n\nWe thought he loved the Vatican\nWith its Cardinals robed in red,\nThat for the sins of whiskey priests\nHis heart had often bled.\n\nWe thought he loved the Mother Church\nAnd doctrine straight from home,\nThat he, like Mr. Evelyn Waugh,\nHad there a home from home.\n\nWe knew that England Made Him,\nThat Brighton Rock had tried to batter\nUs into piety, but felt The Lawless Roads\nCame nearer the Heart of the Matter.\n\nBut oh how wrong we were!\nHow long we've dozed in a mist!\nAnd how clever those Yanks in San Juan\nWho uncovered this Christless crypto-Communist.\n\nFor Graham is really \"Gramovsky\" on the Kremlin files\n(And Green is \"Grenovich\" in a certain nation)\nWhile all the novels are messages in code\nAnd \"whiskey\" in fact means \"deviation\".\n\nAnd we thougt he loved the Vatican...\n(For \"Conclave\" read \"Praesidium\", for \"Bishop\" \"Commissar\")\nSo this knave G. Grenovich, infamous Russki spy,\nLoves not the Vatican but the Soviet Red Star!\n","Type":"Text"}}]