In the final diary entry, he was still railing against the provincialism of literary Poland.

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We bring you now the final diary entry of Hassan Khaliday.

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The conversation, according to Haydon's diary entry that evening, was extraordinary.

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Here is his diary entry after the battle.

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An awkward dinner in June 1945, at which Duff's evident interest in Daisy de Cabrol has fiercely wounded his current paramour, Loulou de Palffy, prompts a diary entry some days later that illustrates his wife's devoted complaisance.

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Here's his fourth diary entry.

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