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22.3.42 [George Orwell]

March 22, 2012 in Germany, Japan, Political, Stalin, Trotskyist, U.S.S.R., War-time, communists, foreign office, kipling, refugees, ukraine by orwelldiaries

Empson tells me that there is a strict ban by the Foreign Office on any suggestion that Japan is going to attack the USSR. So this subject is being studiously avoided in the Far Eastern broadcasts while being pushed all the time in the India broadcasts. They haven’t yet got onto the fact that we are saying this, we haven’t been warned and don’t officially know about the ban, and are making the best of our opportunity while it lasts. The same chaos everywhere on the propaganda front. [E.g. Horizon was nearly stopped from getting its extra paper to print copies for export on the strength of my article on Kipling (all well at the last moment because Harold Nicholson [1] and Duff Cooper [2] intervened), at the same time as the BBC asked me to write a “feature” based on the article.]

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8.8.40 [George Orwell]

August 8, 2010 in Belgians, Bolshevik, Churchill, Egypt, H G Wells, Italy, Lord Swinton, Perim, Political, Red Sea, War Office, War-time, Zouaves, british somaliland, french, lecture, refugees by orwelldiaries

The Italian attack on Egypt, or rather on British Somaliland, has begun. No real news yet, but the papers hint that Somaliland can’t be held with the troops we have there. The important point is Perim, loss of which would practically close the Red Sea.

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