50 “No one is patriotic about taxes” – Orwell, War-time Diary, August 9, 1940, CW XII, 667, p. 229.
51 “fairy gold” – Wadhams, p. 151.
52 “Fairly much a leftist” – Allene Talmey, “Vogue Spotlight”, Vogue, September 15, 1946.
53 “The Americans always go one better” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 262.
54 “anti-American” – Connolly, The Evening Colonnade, p. 383.
55 “It ought to be realised” – The English People, CW XVI, 2475, p. 220.
56 “a truly remarkable book” – Review of Native Son by Richard Wright, etc., Tribune, April 26, 1940, CW XII, 616, p. 152.
57 “The world of the American novelist” – Review of Sun on the Water by L. A. G. Strong, etc., Tribune, April 12, 1940, CW XII, 610, p. 143.
58 “It is difficult to go anywhere” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 3, 1943, CW XVI, 2385, p. 13.
59 “This anglophile” – Richard McLaughlin letter to Tribune, December 17, 1943, ibid., pp. 14–15.
60 “The Nazis, without admitting it” – Arendt, p. 451.
61 “It is clear” – New Statesman and Nation, November 2, 1946, quoted in Kynaston, p. 134.
62 “To be anti-American nowadays” – “In Defence of Comrade Zilliacus”, August – September(?) 1947, CW XIX, 3254, p. 181.
63 “Americophobia” – Orwell, Review of The Nineteen-Twenties by Douglas Goldring, Observer, January 6, 1946, CW XVIII, 2843, p. 21.
64 “I don’t, God knows” – Orwell letter to Gollancz, March 25, 1947, CW XIX, 3200, p. 90.
65 “Everybody in England” – Kynaston, p. 191.
66 “unendurable” – Orwell letter to Dwight Macdonald, April 15, 1947, CW XIX, 3215, p. 128.
67 “to the north and east” – Orwell, CW IX, pp. 85–86.
68 “I had the feeling that they had spoilt it” – Orwell to Mamaine Koestler, January 24, 1947, CW XIX, 3159, pp. 27–28.
69 “He is too fond of apocalyptic visions” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, New Leader, March 29, 1947, CW XIX, 3204, p. 102.