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discussed the names with Orwell, later commenting that it was "a sort of game we played – discussing who was a paid agent of what and estimating to what lengths of treachery our favourite bêtes noires would be prepared to go." Orwell asked Rees to fetch the notebook from Orwell's former residence on
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considered it "a terrible mistake on his part, deriving in equal measure from his hostility to
Stalinism and his illusions in the Labour government. What it certainly does not amount to, however, is an abandonment of the socialist cause or transformation into a footsoldier in the Cold War. Indeed,
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said the revelations would not detract from Orwell's reputation as a great writer, noting "I am a great admirer of Orwell, but we have to accept that he did take a McCarthyite position towards the end of his life". In 2003, Celia Kirwan (Celia
Goodman) said that Orwell was quite right to do it
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was critical of Orwell's decision to give the information to the IRD, claiming "there is a difference between being determined to expose the stupidity of
Stalinism and the scale of the purges and throwing yourself into the business of denouncing people you know". The journalist and activist
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considered Orwell's remarks "perceptive and sometimes even generous", going on to say that "DN Pritt is described as an 'almost certainly underground' Communist but also a "Good MP (i.e. locally). Very able and courageous'". Among the names, Orwell selected 38 which he forwarded to Kirwan.
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Robeson had campaigned to help Welsh coal miners. Cockburn also said the list revealed Orwell as a bigot: "There seems to be general agreement by Orwell's fans, left and right, to skate gently over Orwell's suspicions of Jews, homosexuals and blacks".
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The important thing to do with these people – and it is extremely difficult, since one has only inferential evidence – is to sort them out and determine which of them is honest and which is not. There is, for instance, a whole group of M.P.s in the
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Orwell, George. "Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle".
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1233:"Orwell's little list leaves the left gasping for more"
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2058:Politics and the English Language
2023:A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray
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1300:Gibbons, Fiachra (24 June 2003).
1230:Wynne-Jones, Ros (13 July 1996).
1029:Naftali, Timothy (29 July 1998).
917:Taylor, D. J. (6 November 2002).
369:"Aldred", novelist and author of
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2093:Second Thoughts on James Burnham
1794:Down and Out in Paris and London
1591:Bowker, Gordon (5 August 2006).
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1056:Orwell: The Authorised Biography
740:, heiress and left-wing activist
218:, he liked making lists: 'In a "
164:by nothing worse than stupidity.
127:Communist Party of Great Britain
2324:Information Research Department
1491:Council for British Archaeology
1489:(73) (November 2003 ed.).
591:industrial/labour correspondent
503:, poet and Scottish nationalist
457:, Moscow Correspondent for the
57:Information Research Department
31:Information Research Department
2009:Confessions of a Book Reviewer
1355:Hitchens, Christopher (2015).
373:(first name unknown, possibly
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700:, writer and theatre director
207:One of Orwell's biographers,
29:propaganda activities of the
2079:The Prevention of Literature
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952:Ezard, John (21 June 2003).
884:The New York Review of Books
275:The journalist and activist
1569:Croft, Andy (25 May 2002).
1190:Utley, Tom (12 July 1996).
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527:during the Second World War
521:, Moscow Correspondent for
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1963:Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
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1751:Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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628:, Foreign Affairs analyst
553:, novelist and playwright
135:University College London
2129:Such, Such Were the Joys
1921:The Lion and the Unicorn
1907:The Art of Donald McGill
1900:My Country Right or Left
602:Academics and scientists
346:New York Review of Books
2086:Riding Down from Bangor
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386:The Manchester Guardian
364:Writers and journalists
200:the Scottish island of
188:supporter". Journalist
2304:Works by George Orwell
1802:The Road to Wigan Pier
1743:A Clergyman's Daughter
1541:Taylor, D. J. (2003).
1031:"George Orwell's List"
823:"Christmas tree" files
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1984:Reflections on Gandhi
1977:Toward European Unity
1665:The National Archives
1633:The Unexamined Orwell
1631:Rodden, John (2011).
1386:"List based on spite"
1266:Garton Ash, Timothy.
1060:. William Heinemann.
877:(25 September 2003).
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232:Reactions to the list
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2165:Betrayal of the Left
2037:The Moon Under Water
1949:Notes on Nationalism
1914:England Your England
1861:Shooting an Elephant
1775:Nineteen Eighty-Four
1361:Simon & Schuster
1272:The Hoover Institute
1268:"Why Orwell Matters"
1097:Unpublished Notebook
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551:J. B. Priestley
479:Norman Ian MacKenzie
442:Moscow correspondent
350:Christopher Hitchens
184:– "very anti-white.
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2214:Victor Gollancz Ltd
2002:Books v. Cigarettes
1956:The Sporting Spirit
1810:Homage to Catalonia
1487:British Archaeology
1197:The Daily Telegraph
1173:Letter to Ian Angus
1115:Cockburn, Alexander
1041:on 17 October 2007.
875:Garton Ash, Timothy
780:George Bernard Shaw
632:J. G. Crowther
245:The Daily Telegraph
190:Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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1970:The English People
1660:"File FO 1110/189"
1451:The Yorkshire Post
1336:on 13 October 2018
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1006:Remembering Orwell
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1594:"The Lost Orwell"
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1015:978-0-14007-458-1
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