Foreign & General
1. Large demonstration against British Embassy in Tokio. Daily Telegraph [a]
2. Celebration of 150th anniversary of taking of Bastille included march-past of 30,000 troops including British Daily Telegraph [b]
3. Conscription of all persons 18-55 ordered in Hong Kong, but evidently so phrased as to apply chiefly to Chinese & allow exemption to most of the whites. Daily Telegraph [c]
Social
1. Cmr. Stephen King-Hall’s German circular letters thought to have reached 50,000 people in Germany, evading the Gestapo by different-sized envelopes & different methods of folding. Daily Telegraph [d]
2. Beginning of what are evidently large spy-revelations in France (cf. U.S.A.) by arrest of various persons connected with rightwing° newspapers. Daily Telegraph [e]
Party Politics
1. Economic League accuses P.P.U. of being vehicle of Nazi propaganda. Daily Telegraph [f]
2. Individual membership of N.C.L.[1] now said to be 4500. Affiliations: 281 Women’s Co-op Guilds, 30 Trade Councils & T.U. branches, 37 Labour parties & Women’s sections, 10 Co-op parties etc., 53 P.P.U. branches & miscellaneous. Communist press accuses N.C.L. of being a Fascist body. No Conscription, July-August 1939; Daily Worker, 13.6.39 [g]
Miscellaneous
1. Crowds at Eton-Harrow match estimated at 10, 000 & said to be smartest gathering for some years. [No reference]
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Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 
George has, of course, quickly focused onm and got the measure of, the CP’s line on a possible war.
He’s following so many threads – positively octopean or should that be tentacular?
Max