52 “Everything within the state” – Benito Mussolini speech at La Scala, Milan, October 28, 1925.
53 “Brown Bolshevism” – Franz Borkenau, The Totalitarian Enemy (Faber & Faber, 1940), p. 13.
54 “simply the bludgeon” – John Strachey, The Coming Struggle for Power (Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1932), p. 266.
55 “The two regimes” – Orwell, Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Time and Tide, May 4, 1940, CW XII, 620, p. 159.
56 “The sin of nearly all leftwingers” – Orwell, “Arthur Koestler”, CW XVI, 2548, p. 394.
57 “This book is subtitled” – Orwell, Review of Franco’s Rule (anonymous), New English Weekly, June 23, 1938, in CW XI, 456, p. 167.
58 “Groping along darkened streets” – Muggeridge, pp. 316–17.
59 “bitched buggered and bewildered” – Ethel Mannin letter to Orwell, October 30, 1939, in CW XI, 575, p. 413.
60 “It taught me two things” – Orwell, “My Country Right or Left”, CW XII, 694, p. 271.
61 “objectively pro-Fascist” – George Woodcock et al., “Pacifism and the War: A Controversy”, Partisan Review, September-October 1942, CW XIII, 1270, p. 396.
62 “dishonest” – “As I Please”, December 8, 1944, CW XVI, 2590, p. 495. “The intellectuals who are at present” – Orwell letter to Victor Gollancz, January 8, 1940, CW XII, 583, p. 5.
63 “cold war” – Orwell, Review of Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler, December 9, 1943, CW XVI, 2389, p. 19.
64 “bored, bewildered” – Orwell, Review of War Begins at Home, ed. Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge, Time and Tide, March 2, 1940, CW XII, 594, p. 17.
65 “this bloody war” – Orwell letter to Geoffrey Gorer, January 10, 1940, CW XII, 585, p. 6.
66 “I find that anything outrageously strange” – Orwell, CW V, pp. 100–101.
67 “brilliant and depressing” – Orwell, “Notes on the Way”, Time and Tide April 6, 1940, CW XII, 604, p. 124.
68 “He is looking only on the black side” – Orwell, Review of The Thirties by Malcolm Muggeridge, New English Weekly, April 25, 1940, CW XII, 615, p. 150.
69 “With this craving for facts” – Muggeridge, p. 262.
70 “nihilistic quietism” – Orwell, “Words and Henry Miller”, Tribune, February 22, 1946, CW XVIII, 2906, p. 118.
71 “labels, slogans” and “Good novels” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 105.