censorship

You are currently browsing the archive for the censorship category.

1.6.41 [George Orwell]

June 1, 2011 in Baghdad, Britain, Crete, Damascus, Duke of Hamilton, Hansard, Hess, Iraq, MOI, Parliament, Political, War-time, air raid, censorship, evacuation, newspapers, oil by orwelldiaries

We are clearing out of Crete. Mention of 13,000 men being evacuated. [1] No mention yet of the total number involved. The most frightful impression will be created if we remove the British troops and leave the Greeks behind, though from a cold-blooded military point of view it might be the right thing to do.

Read the rest of this entry »

23.11.40 [George Orwell]

November 23, 2010 in Chamberlain, Duff-Cooper, France, Government, Hoare, Political, Spain, War-time, censorship, nazism, newspapers by orwelldiaries

The day before yesterday lunching with H. P., editor of ——-[1].  H. P. rather pessimistic about the war.  Thinks there is no answer to the New Order [2], i.e. this government is incapable of framing any answer, and people here and in America could easily be brought to accept it.  I queried whether people would not for certain see any peace offer along these lines as a trap.  H. P.: “Hells bells, I could dress it up so that they’d think it was the greatest victory in the history of the world.  I could make them eat it.”  That is true, of course.  All depends on the form in which it is put to people.  So long as our own newspapers don’t do the dirty they will be quite indifferent to appeals from Europe.  H. P., however, is certain that ——- [3] and Co. are working for a sell-out.  It appears that though —— [4] is not submitted for censorship, all papers are now warned not to publish interpretations of the government’s policy towards Spain.  A few weeks back Duff-Cooper [5] had the press correspondents up and assured them “on his word of honour” that “things were going very well indeed in Spain.”  The most one can say is that Duff-Cooper’s word of honour is worth more than Hoare’s.

Read the rest of this entry »