class="sup">34 “I dislike big towns” – Orwell letter to Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, April 17, 1940, CW XI, 613, p. 148.

35 “Only a little while” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 258.

36 “We swim in it” – Orwell, CW VII, pp. 15–16.

37 “It was our thought” – New York Times, October 31, 1938.

38 “covering up the truth” – Quoted in Rich Heldenfels, “ ‘War of the Worlds’ still vivid at 75”, Akron Beacon Journal, October 26, 2013.

39 “The complexity of modern finance” – Hadley Cantril, The Invasion From Mars (Princeton University Press, 1940), p. 154.

40 “so many things we hear” – Ibid., p. 158.

41 “cannot tell lies” – Orwell, Review of The Invasion From Mars by Hadley Cantril, New Statesman and Nation, October 26, 1940, in CW XII, 702, p. 279.

42 “The nation as a whole” – Quoted in Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic”, Slate, October 28, 201.3

43 “The evident connection” – Orwell, Review of The Invasion From Mars, CW XII, 702, p. 280.

44 “the perfect demonstration” – Quoted in Howard Koch, The Panic Broadc ast: Portrait of an Event (Little, Brown & Company, 1970), p. 93.

45 “You are not going out of your mind” – Patrick Hamilton, Gas Light (Constable & Company, Ltd., 1939), p. 42.

46 “a lunatic asylum” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 152.

47 “mentally deranged” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 258.

48 “Am I really mad?” – Iulia de Beausobre, The Woman Who Could Not Die (Chatto & Windus, 1938), p. 85.

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.