80 “advanced communist views” and “he does not hold with the Communist Party” – Stephen Bates, “Odd Clothes and Unorthodox Views: Why MI5 Spied on Orwell for a Decade”, Guardian, September 4, 2007.
81 “I always knew he was two-faced” – Ros Wynne-Jones, “Orwell’s Little List Leaves the Left Gasping for More”, Independent on Sunday, July 14, 1996.
82 “The man of conscience” – Foreword by Alexander Cockburn in John Reed, Snowball’s Chance (Roof Books, 2002), p. 7.
83 “I am a great admirer” – Wynne-Jones.
84 “I always disagree” – Orwell letter to Richard Rees, March 3, 1949, CW XX, 3560, p. 52.
85 “the use of false information” – Ted Morgan, Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America (Random House, 2004), p. 566.
86 “Americanism with its sleeves rolled” – Richard H. Rovere, Senator Joe McCarthy (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1960), p. 12.
87 “the chink in our shining armour” – Richard M. Fried, The McCarthy Era in Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 136.
88 “Burnham thinks always” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, CW XIX, 3204, p. 105.
89 “the existence of a vast” – Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Vintage, 2008), p. 14.
90 “He abandons Communism intellectually” – Crossman (ed.), pp. 224–225.
91 “group-advancement” – Carol Brightman (ed.), Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949–1975 (Secker & Warburg, 1995), p. 5.
92 “In five years” – Swingler and Orwell, “The Right to Free Expression”, CW XVIII, 3090, p. 443.
93 “In the USA the phrase ‘Americanism’ ” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 134.
94 “It is difficult, if not impossible” – Quoted in David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 187.
95 “He knew that big lies” – James Reston, Deadline: A Memoir (Random House, 1991), p. 215.
96 “came out of the McCarthy period” – Ibid., p. 219.
97 “Don’t join the book-burners” – Quoted in Morgan, p. 447.
98 “Whether or not my ideas on censorship” – Quoted in Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: 60th Anniversary Edition (Simon & Schuster, 2012), p. 189.
99 “true father, mother, and lunatic brother” – Ibid., p. 167.