March 11, 1968 (page 7 of 36).

‘Everyone’s so polite, so aloof’, Mary Kenny

Kenny describes changing her appearance, including wearing a Sari and having her face ‘darkened’ so as ‘to test the colour reactions of Londoners’. JB is mentioned towards the end of the article: ‘James Baldwin once said to me that the difference between an American hotel-keeper and a British one is that an American will say “Get your black ass outa this town before sundown” — while a British one will smile sweetly and say he’s frightfully sorry, Sir, but there’s simply no room’.