Monthly Archives: July 2012

28.7.42

Posted on 28 July by orwelldiaries

Today I have read less newspapers than usual, but the ones I have seen have gone cold on the Second Front, except for the News Chronicle. [the Evening News published an anti-Second Front article (by General Brownrigg [1]) on its … Continue reading →

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27.7.42

Posted on 27 July by orwelldiaries

Talking today with Sultana, one of the Maltese broadcasters. He says he is able to keep in fairly good touch with Malta and conditions are very bad there. “The last letter I get this morning was like a – how … Continue reading →

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26.7.42

Posted on 26 July by orwelldiaries

Yesterday and today, on the Home Guard manoeuvres, passing various small camps of soldiers in the woods, radiolocation [= radar] stations etc. Struck by the appearance of the soldiers, their magnificent health and the brutalized look in their faces. All … Continue reading →

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23.7.42

Posted on 23 July by orwelldiaries

I now make entries in this diary much more seldom than I used to, for the reason that I literally have not any spare time. And yet I am doing nothing that is not futility and have less and less … Continue reading →

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22.7.42

Posted on 22 July by orwelldiaries

From Ahmed Ali’s [1] last letter from India. “Here is a little bit of old Delhi which might interest you. “In a busy street a newsboy was shouting in Urdu: ‘Pandit Jawaharlal [2] saying his rosary the other way round’. … Continue reading →

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10.7.42

Posted on 10 July by orwelldiaries

A day or two ago a couple of lorries belonging to the Navy arrived with a party of Wrens [1] and sailors who put in several hours work weeding out the turnips in Mr. Phillips’s [2] field. All the village … Continue reading →

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3.7.42

Posted on 3 July by orwelldiaries

Vote of censure defeated 475-25. This figure means that there were very few abstentions. The same trick as usual – the debate twisted into a demand for a vote of confidence on Churchill himself, which has to be given, since … Continue reading →

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1.7.42

Posted on 1 July by orwelldiaries

At Callow End, Worcs. (staying on a farm). [1] No noise except aeroplanes, birds and the mowers cutting the hay. No mention of the war except with reference to the Italian prisoners, who are working on some of the farms. … Continue reading →

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