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13.6.40 [George Orwell]

June 13, 2010 in Blackshirts, Bow, by-election, communists, Government, Home Guard, Lansbury, LDV, Local Defence Volunteers, Lord's, MCC, pacifists, Pioneers, Political, War-time by orwelldiaries

Yesterday to a group conference of the L.D.V.[1], held in the Committee Room at Lord’s…Last time I was at Lord’s must have been at the Eton-Harrow match in 1921. At that time I should have felt that to go into the Pavilion, not being a member of the M.C.C.[2], was on a par with pissing on the altar, and years later would have had some vague idea that it was a legal offence for which you could be prosecuted.

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