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19.6.41 [George Orwell]

June 19, 2011 in Arab peoples, Daily Express, Derby, Eastern Europe, Evening Standard, Finland, Germany, Hitler, Newmarket, Petsamo, Political, Russia, Syria, Turkey, War-time, invasion, navicerts, non-aggression pact by orwelldiaries

Non-aggression pact between Germany and Turkey. This is our reward for not mopping up Syria quickly. From now on the Turkish press will be turned against us, and this will have its effect on the Arab peoples.

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13.4.41 [George Orwell]

April 13, 2011 in Connolly, Evening Standard, Famel Cough Syrup, France, Greece, Hitler, Libya, Near East, Persil, Political, Sunday Express, Sunday Pictorial, War-time, Worthington, advertisements, diary by orwelldiaries

No real news at all about either Greece or Libya…Of the two papers I was able to procure today, the Sunday Pictorial was blackly defeatist and the Sunday Express not much less so. Yesterday’s Evening Standard has an article by “Our Military Correspondent”… which was even more so. All this suggests that the newspapers may be receiving bad news which they are not allowed to pass on…God knows it is all a ghastly mess. The one thing that is perhaps encouraging is that all the military experts are convinced that our intervention in Greece is disastrous, and the military experts are always wrong.

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22.8.40 [George Orwell]

August 22, 2010 in Beaverbrook, David Low, Evening Standard, GPU, Low, Political, Popular Front, Portman Square, Russia, Trotsky, Trotsky's murder, War-time, cab, horse, newspapers, press by orwelldiaries

The Beaverbrook press, compared with the headlines I saw on other papers, seems to be playing down the suggestion that Trotsky’s murder was carried out by the G.P.U[1]. In fact today’s Evening Standard, with several separate items about Trotsky, didn’t mention this suggestion. No doubt they still have their eye on Russia and want to placate the Russians at all costs, in spite of Low’s cartoons[2]. But under this there may lie a much subtler manoeuvre. The men responsible for the Standard’s present pro-Russian policy are no doubt shrewd enough to know that a Popular Front “line” is not really the way to secure a Russian alliance. But they also know that the mass of leftish opinion in England still takes it for granted that a full anti-fascist policy is the way to line up Russia on our side. To crack up Russia is therefore a way of pushing public opinion leftward. It is curious that I always attribute these devious motives to other people, being anything but cunning myself and finding it hard to use indirect methods even when I see the need for them.

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