Partisan Review, July-August 1943. Completed by Orwell in late May 1943. Dear Editors, I begin my letter just after the dissolution of the Comintern, and before the full effects of this have become clear. Of course the immediate results in Britain are easy to foretell. Obviously the Communists will make fresh efforts to affiliate...
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Partisan Review, March-April 1943. Completed by Orwell on 3 January 1943. Dear Editors, It is just on two years since I wrote you my first letter. I wrote that one to the tune of A.A. guns, when we were in desperate straits and also on what appeared to be the edge of rapid political advance....
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Partisan Review, July-August 1942. Completed by Orwell on 8 May 1942. Dear Editors, When I last wrote to you things had begun to go wrong in the Far East but nothing was happening politically. Now, I am fairly certain, we are on the edge of the political crisis which I have been expecting for the...
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Partisan Review, November-December 1942. Completed by Orwell on 29 August 1942. Dear Editors, I write this letter at a moment when it is almost certain to be overtaken and swamped by events. We are still in the same state of frozen crisis as we were three months ago. Cripps is still enigmatically in office,...
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Written by D. S. Savage, George Woodcock, Alex Comfort and George Orwell. Published in Partisan Review, September-October 1942. D. S. SAVAGE: A few brief comments on George Orwell’s March-April London Letter. It is fashionable nowadays to equate Fascism with Germany. We must fight Fascism, therefore we must fight Germany. Thus Mr Orwell: “the greater...
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Partisan Review, March-April 1942. Completed by Orwell on 1 January 1942. Dear Editors, At this moment nothing is happening politically in England, and since we probably have ahead of us a long exhausting war in which morale will be all-important, I want to use most of this letter in discussing certain currents of thought...
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Partisan Review, November-December 1941. Completed by Orwell on 17 August 1941. Dear Editors, You asked me to send you another London letter, and though you left me free to choose what I should write about you added that your readers might be interested to hear some more about the Home Guard. I will give...
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Partisan Review, July-August 1941. Completed by Orwell on 15 April 1941. London NW8 15 April 1941 Dear Editors, As you see by the above date, I only received your letter a month after it was sent, so there is not much hope of my getting a reply to you by 20 April. I expect...
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Partisan Review, March-April 1941. Completed by Orwell on 3 January 1941. From this date until the summer of 1946 George Orwell wrote a regular “London Letter” for Partisan Review. London, NW1 England 3 January 1941 Dear Editors, As I am writing this letter in answer to a privately addressed one of your own, perhaps...
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Partisan Review, January 1949 Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. In Gandhi’s case the questions on feels inclined to ask are: to what extent was Gandhi moved by vanity —...
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