Foreign & General
1. Parliament meeting tomorrow. Emergency Powers Act will be passed. Certain classes of reservists called up. The King returning to London. Reservists being called up in France & Germany. Legislation to be hurried through Parliament to prevent further buying of nickel,° copper etc. by Germany. Almost all shares have dropped, no doubt in anticipation of this. World press comments as quoted in D.Tel. are very non-committal but the Axis powers evidently greatly pleased by the Russian demarche. Daily Telegraph [a]
Social
1. Railway strike now arranged to begin in a few days’ time. Daily Telegraph [b]
Party Politics
1. Communist Party membership stated at 17, 000,[1] which is increase of 2000 over last year. C.P. again applying for application to L[abour].P[arty]. Daily Telegraph [c]
[1] 40% of this in London, & membership in industrial areas negligible (C.P. pamphlet) [Orwell’s note]
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Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 
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Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop are keeping secrets.
“C.P. again applying for application”? This should surely read “C.P. again applying for affilitation”, as in its present form it makes no sense. Mistranscribed, or a slip of the pen by Orwell himself?
Apologies for my own typo (see how easy it is?): that should be AFFILIATION
@passer-by
According to the Complete Works, it does indeed say ‘applying for application’, maybe not quite up to GO’s usual standards!