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⁴⁹ “the idea that I’ve got to abandon them” – Orwell letter to Jack Common, September 29, 1938, CW XI, 489, p. 212.

⁵⁰ “the vulgar lie” – Orwell, Review of The Novel To-Day by Philip Henderson, New English Weekly, December 31, 1936, in CW IX, 342, p. 534.

⁵¹ “does not seem to be so very different” – Orwell, Review of Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, New English Weekly, June 9, 1938, in CW XI, 451, pp. 160–61.

⁵² “Everything within the state” – Benito Mussolini speech at La Scala, Milan, October 28, 1925.

⁵³ “Brown Bolshevism” – Franz Borkenau, The Totalitarian Enemy (Faber & Faber, 1940), p. 13.

⁵⁴ “simply the bludgeon” – John Strachey, The Coming Struggle for Power (Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1932), p. 266.

⁵⁵ “The two regimes” – Orwell, Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Time and Tide, May 4, 1940, CW XII, 620, p. 159.

⁵⁶ “The sin of nearly all leftwingers” – Orwell, “Arthur Koestler”, CW XVI, 2548, p. 394.

⁵⁷ “This book is subtitled” – Orwell, Review of Franco’s Rule (anonymous), New English Weekly, June 23, 1938, in CW XI, 456, p. 167.

⁵⁸ “Groping along darkened streets” – Muggeridge, pp. 316–17.

⁵⁹ “bitched buggered and bewildered” – Ethel Mannin letter to Orwell, October 30, 1939, in CW XI, 575, p. 413.

⁶⁰ “It taught me two things” – Orwell, “My Country Right or Left”, CW XII, 694, p. 271.

⁶¹ “objectively pro-Fascist” – George Woodcock et al., “Pacifism and the War: A Controversy”, Partisan Review, September-October 1942, CW XIII, 1270, p. 396.

⁶² “dishonest” – “As I Please”, December 8, 1944, CW XVI, 2590, p. 495. “The intellectuals who are at present” – Orwell letter to Victor Gollancz, January 8, 1940, CW XII, 583, p. 5.

⁶³ “cold war” – Orwell, Review of Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler, December 9, 1943, CW XVI, 2389, p. 19.

⁶⁴ “bored, bewildered” – Orwell, Review of War Begins at Home, ed. Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge, Time and Tide, March 2, 1940, CW XII, 594, p. 17.

⁶⁵ “this bloody war” – Orwell letter to Geoffrey Gorer, January 10, 1940, CW XII, 585, p. 6.

⁶⁶ “I find that anything outrageously strange” – Orwell, CW V, pp. 100–101.

⁶⁷ “brilliant and depressing” – Orwell, “Notes on the Way”, Time and Tide April 6, 1940, CW XII, 604, p. 124.

⁶⁸ “He is looking only on the black side” – Orwell, Review of The Thirties by Malcolm Muggeridge, New English Weekly, April 25, 1940, CW XII, 615, p. 150.

⁶⁹ “With this craving for facts” – Muggeridge, p. 262.

⁷⁰ “nihilistic quietism” – Orwell, “Words and Henry Miller”, Tribune, February 22, 1946, CW XVIII, 2906, p. 118.

⁷¹ “labels, slogans” and “Good novels” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 105.

⁷² “moving into an age” – Ibid., p. 110.

⁷³ “the literary history” – Ibid., p. 105.

⁷⁴ “always on the side of the underdog” – Orwell, “Charles Dickens”, CW XII, 597, p. 55.

⁷⁵ “It is the face of a man” – Ibid., p. 56.

⁷⁶ “I should doubt whether” – Ibid., p. 47.

⁷⁷ “To be a lover of Dickens” – The Dickensian, vol. 36, no. 256, September 1, 1940, reprinted in CW XII, 627, p. 167.

⁷⁸ For the next four years– see Wadhams, p. 130.

⁷⁹ “Everything is disintegrating” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 10, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 182.

⁸⁰ “We shall at any rate” – Orwell letter to James Laughlin, July 16, 1940, CW XII, 659, p. 219.

⁸¹ “ARM THE PEOPLE” – Orwell letter to the editor, Time and Tide, June 22, 1940, CW XII, 642, p. 193.

⁸² “an Ironside” – Warburg, p. 36.

⁸³ “A Counter-Revolutionary Gangster Passes” – Daily Worker, August 23, 1940.

⁸⁴ “How will the Russian state” – Orwell, War-time Diary, August 23, 1940, CW XII, 677, p. 241.

⁸⁵ “cultural blue-prints” – Tribune, August 16, 1940, CW XII, 655, p. 213.

⁸⁶ “I don’t think anyone need fear” – Ibid., p. 214.

⁸⁷ “Reality has outdone fiction” – H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (Gollancz, 1934), p. 501.

⁸⁸ “I could imagine an English Fascism” and “The novel does not set out” – Quoted in Andy Croft, Red Letter Days: British Fiction in the 1930s (Lawrence & Wishart, 1990), p. 230.

⁸⁹ “a horrible brainless empire” – Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 117.

⁹⁰ “year of the Lord Hitler 720” – Murray Constantine, Swastika Night (Gollancz, 2016), p. 11.

⁹¹ “We can create nothing” – Ibid., p. 121.

⁹² “would have no vitality” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 281.

⁹³ “a little soft dark fat smiling thing” – Constantine, p. 100.

⁹⁴ “There is not the whole width of the Empire” – Ibid., p. 80.

⁹⁵ “remarkable in its insight” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom by Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury, Time and Tide, August 24, 1940, CW XII, 678, p. 243.

⁹⁶ “Action. Isolation. Order.” – Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury, Take Back Your Freedom (Jonathan Cape, 1939), p. 27.

⁹⁷ “a more gentlemanly Hitler” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom, CW XII, 678, p. 242.

⁹⁸ “We must have emotion” – Holtby and Ginsbury, p. 58.

⁹⁹ “Many who had found thinking” – Muggeridge, p. 241.