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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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3.7.40 [George Orwell]

July 3, 2010 in Africa, Government, Hitler, Near East, Political, War-time, fascists, invasion by orwelldiaries

Everywhere a feeling of something near despair among thinking people because of the failure of the government to act and the continuance of dead minds and pro-Fascists in positions of command. Growing recognition that the only thing that would certainly right the situation is an unsuccessful invasion; and coupled with this a growing fear that Hitler won’t after all attempt the invasion but will go for Africa and the Near East.

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