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27.9.40 [George Orwell]

September 27, 2010 in Dakar, News Chronicle, Nonconformists, Political, Regent's Park, War-time, bombs, lights, new statesman, peace terms by orwelldiaries

The News-Chronicle to-day is markedly defeatist, as well it may be after yesterday’s news about Dakar[1]. But I have a feeling that the News-Chronicle is bound to become defeatist anyway and will be promptly to the fore when plausible peace terms come forward. These people have no definable policy and no sense of responsibility, nothing except a traditional dislike of the British ruling class, based ultimately on the Nonconformist conscience. They are only noise-makers, like the New Statesman, etc. All these people can be counted on to collapse when the conditions of war become intolerable.

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