29 “If the sort of world” and “If one simply proclaims” – Orwell letter to Noel Willmett, May 18, 1944, CW XVI, 2471, p. 191.
30 “only through absolute clarity” – Burnham letter to Tribune, CW XVI, 2404, p. 62.
31 “Only if we recognize” – F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1946), p. 10.
32 “the source of the mortal danger” – Ibid., p. 84.
33 “The word truth itself ” – Hayek, p. 76.
34 “Each writer” and “a tyranny probably worse” – Review of The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek and The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus, Observer, April 9, 1944, CW XVI, 2451, p. 149.
35 “completely unacceptable politically” – Orwell letter to Gollancz, March 19, 1944, CW XVI, 2437, p. 127.
36 “I am highly critical” – Crick, p. 254.
37 “I think the choice of pigs” – Ibid., p. 456.
38 “Imagine old Joe” – Inez Holden quoted in CW XVI, p. 266.
39 “that this is the right point of view” – Crick, p. 458.
40 “Unpopular ideas” – Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press”, CW XVII, 2721, p. 254.
41 “I knew that anyone” – Orwell letter to Gollancz, March 14, 1947, CW XIX, 3191, p. 78.
42 “Perhaps even Orwell’s morale” – Warburg, p. 47.
43 “robot bombs” – David C. Smith, p. 473.
44 Inez Holden overheard– Stefan Schimanski and Henry Treece (eds.), Leaves in the Storm: A Book of Diaries (Lindsay Drummond, Ltd., 1947), pp. 241–45.
45 “blitzed” – Orwell letter to T. S. Eliot, June 28, 1944, CW XVI, 2496, p. 269.
46 Orwell believed he was sterile– see Rayner Heppenstall’s account in Coppard and Crick, p. 114.
47 “I hate London” – Wadhams, p. 147.
48 “grossly wrong” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Winter 1944–45, p. 411.