60 “a bitter satire” – Quoted in David Sylvester, “Orwell on the Screen”, Encounter, March 1955.
61 “hit the jackpot” – Quoted in David Hencke and Rob Evans, “How Big Brothers Used Orwell to Fight the Cold War”, Guardian, June 30, 2000.
62 “a failure aesthetically” – Sylvester.
63 “Did she approve” – Today’s Cinema, December 28, 1954.
64 “the most devastating anti-Communist film” – Saunders, p. 459.
65 “I think we agreed” – Ibid., p. 297.
66 “freely adapted” etc. – 1984 (dir. Michael Anderson, 1956).
67 “Will Ecstasy Be a Crime” – Poster for 1984.
68 “The change seemed to me to show” and “the type of ending” – Daily Mail, February 27, 1956.
69 “expressed his wholehearted and enthusiastic approval” – Celia Kirwan report on visit to Orwell, March 30, 1949, CW XX, 3590A, p. 319.
70 “a list of journalists & writers” – Orwell letter to Celia Kirwan, April 6, 1949, CW XX, 3590B, p. 322.
71 “It isn’t very sensational” – Orwell letter to Celia Kirwan, May 2, 1949, CW XX, 3615, p. 103.
72 “The whole difficulty” – Orwell letter to Richard Rees, May 2, 1949, CW XX, 3617, p. 105.
73 “very tricky” – Orwell letter to Richard Rees, April 17, 1949, CW XX, 3600, p. 88.
74 “publicity agents of the USSR” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XIII, 2990, p. 291.
75 “Members of the present British government” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 135.
76 “I have been obliged at times” – Randall Swingler, “The Right to Free Expression”, annotated by Orwell, Polemic, no. 5, September – October 1946, CW XVIII, 3090, p. 442.
77 “some kind of Russian agent” – Lost Orwell, pp. 147–48.
78 “calamitous” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, CW XIX, 3204, p. 103.
79 “vaguely disquieting” – Orwell letter to George Woodcock, March 23, 1948, CW XIX, 3369, p. 301.