40 “1984 is in effect” – Ibid., pp. 131–32.
41 “perhaps more than any other nation” – Golo Mann in Meyers (ed.), p. 277.
42 “Because it is both difficult” – Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind (Penguin Classics, 2001), p. 42.
43 “the most hated writer” – John Rodden, Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell (ISI Books, 2003), p. 71.
44 “make allowances” – Life, March 29, 1943.
45 “the secret Ministry of Cold War” – Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Granta, 2000), p. 59.
46 “Indifference to objective truth” – Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”, CW XVII, 2668, p. 148.
47 “a word that can be uttered” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 321.
48 “Friends, freedom has seized the offensive!” – Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe (Free Press, 1989), p. 32.
49 “the Noncommunist left” – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Da Capo, 1998), p. 148.
50 “George Orwell, with his vigorous good sense” – Ibid., p. 147.
51 “Western man” – Schlesinger, p. 1.
52 Tribune and Partisan Review– For details see Saunders, pp. 162–63, 166.
53 “that bunch of homeless Leftists” – Arthur Koestler, The Yogi and the Commissar and Other Essays (Jonathan Cape, 1945), p. 107.
54 “I was made an unwitting ‘accomplice’ ” – Dwight Macdonald, Discriminations: Essays & Afterthoughts 1938–1974 (Grossman, 1974), p. 59.
55 “it was rather fortunate that Orwell died” – Conor Cruise O’Brien, Listener, December 12, 1968, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), pp. 345–46.
56 “deviate very little” and “retain the spirit” – Daniel J. Leab, Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), p. 85.
57 “the mood of the book” – Ihor Szewczenko letter to Orwell, April 11, 1946, CW XVIII, 2969, p. 236.
58 “fanatic intellectual” – Ibid., p. 79.
59 “apparent inference” – Ibid., p. 83.