Tag Archives: France

18.5.41

Irak, Syria, Morocco, Spain, Darlan, Stalin, Raschid Ali, Franco – sensation of utter helplessness.[1] If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged America, Canaries, Churchill, Dakar, Darlan, France, Franco, human nature, Iraq, morocco, Nazis, newspapers, Parliament, Rashid Ali, socialism, Spain, Stalin, Syria, Tangier | 6 Comments

22.4.41

Posted on 22 April by orwelldiaries

Have been 2 or 3 days at Wallington. Saturday night’s blitz could easily be heard there – 45 miles distant. Sowed while at Wallington 40 or 50 lb. of potatoes, which might give 200 or 600 lbs. according to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged Athens, Australia, blitz, Chamberlain, Churchill, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hitler, Iraq, Janina, Mosul, oil wells, potatoesjournalism, Rumania, Thessaly, Wallington | 4 Comments

13.4.41

Posted on 13 April by orwelldiaries

No real news at all about either Greece or Libya…Of the two papers I was able to procure today, the Sunday Pictorial was blackly defeatist and the Sunday Express not much less so. Yesterday’s Evening Standard has an article by … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged advertisements, Connolly, diary, Evening Standard, Famel Cough Syrup, France, Greece, Hitler, Libya, Near East, Persil, Sunday Express, Sunday Pictorial, Worthington | 2 Comments

20.3.41

Posted on 20 March by orwelldiaries

Fairly heavy raids last night, but only 1 plane brought down, so no doubt the rumours about a “secret weapon” are all baloney. A lot of bombs at Greenwich, one of them while I was talking to E[ileen] over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged air raid, arms, barrage balloon, bomb, cheese, Churchill, food, France, Greenwich, helplessness, Home Guard, Tangier | 7 Comments

7.2.41

Posted on 7 February by orwelldiaries

There is now more and more division of opinion – the question is implicit from the start but people have only recently become aware of it – as to whether we are fighting the Nazis or the German people. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged Africa, British government, Conservatives, France, Franco, Germans, Germany, Gibraltar, Laval, Nazis, Petain, Spain, Vansittart, war aims | 5 Comments

28.11.40

Posted on 28 November by orwelldiaries

Lunching yesterday with C.[1], editor of France. . . To my surprise he was in good spirits and had no grievances. I would have expected a French refugee to be grumbling endlessly about the food, etc. However, C. knows England … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged Americans, blitz, Coventry, edward VIII, fascism, France, Italy, Laval, monarchy, Mrs Simpson, pierre comert, Stalin, Vichy | 10 Comments

23.11.40

Posted on 23 November by orwelldiaries

The day before yesterday lunching with H. P., editor of ——-[1]. H. P. rather pessimistic about the war. Thinks there is no answer to the New Order [2], i.e. this government is incapable of framing any answer, and people here … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged censorship, Chamberlain, Duff-Cooper, France, Government, Hoare, nazism, newspapers, Spain | 14 Comments

25.10.40

Posted on 25 October by orwelldiaries

The other night examined the crowds sheltering in Chancery Lane, Oxford Circus and Baker Street stations. Not all Jews, but, I think, a higher proportion of Jews than one would normally see in a crowd of this size. What is … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged Africa, air-raids, Baker Street, Chancery Lane, France, Hitler, Jews, oxford circus, Paris Metro, Spain, Syria, Tosco Fyvel | 46 Comments

27.6.40

Posted on 27 June by orwelldiaries

It appears that the night before last, during the air-raid alarm, many people all over London were woken by the All Clear signal, took that for a warning and went to the shelters and stayed there till morning, waiting for … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged air raid, all clear, aristocracy, Britain, Churchill, Communism, Falangist, France, Franco, german, Hitler, I.L.P., Italy, L. H. Myers, Madrid, MOI, Munich, Mussolini, New Leader, occupation, Petain, propaganda, Rab Butler, recruiting campaign, ruling class, Russia, Russo-German pact, Samuel Hoare, Spanish, Stalin, Tangier, U.S.S.R. | 7 Comments

24.6.40

Posted on 24 June by orwelldiaries

The German armistice terms are much as expected. . . . What is interesting about the whole thing is the extent to which the traditional pattern of loyalties and honour is breaking down. Pétain, ironically enough, is the originator (at … Continue reading →

Posted in Political, War-time | Tagged Canada, capitalists, Churchill, class, collaboration, conquest, demotic speech, Duff-Cooper, Eileen, England, Flandin, France, Frenbch, French Communists, German armistice, Gwen, Hitler, Laval, LDV, left, Manifesto of Plain Men, Mass Observation, News Chronicle, pacifist, patriots, Petain, propaganda, red army, revolution, revolutionary government, revolutionary war, revolvers, Richard Acland, right, Russia, Spain, speeches, Stalin, Verdun, winter | 18 Comments