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22.1.41 [George Orwell]

January 22, 2011 in Daily Express, Daily Worker, Dean of Canterbury, Hewlett Johnson, People's Convention, Political, Tobruk, War-time, alarm clock, blitz, onions, posters, racketeering by orwelldiaries

——- [1] is convinced, perhaps rightly, that the danger of the People’s Convention [2] racket is much underestimated and that one must fight back and not ignore it.  He says that thousands of simple-minded people are taken in by the appealing programme of the People’s Convention and do not realise that it is a defeatist manoeuvre intended to help Hitler.  He quoted a letter from the Dean of Canterbury [3] who said “I want you to understand that I am wholeheartedly for winning the war, and that I believe Winston Churchill to be the only possible leader for us till the war is over” (or words to that effect), and nevertheless supported the People’s Convention.  It appears that there are thousands like this.

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