Monthly Archives: June 2012

24.6.42

Posted on 24 June by orwelldiaries

Listened in last night to Lord Haw Haw – not Joyce,[1] who apparently has been off air for some time, but a man who sounded to me like a South African, followed by another with more of a cockney voice. … Continue reading →

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21.6.42

Posted on 21 June by orwelldiaries

The thing that strikes one in the BBC – and it is evidently same in various of the other departments – is not so much the moral squalor and the ultimate futility of what we are doing, as the feeling … Continue reading →

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15.6.42

Posted on 15 June by orwelldiaries

No question now that the second front has been decided on. All the papers talk of it as a certainty and Moscow is publicising it widely. Whether it is really feasible remains to be seen, of course. Cutting from BBC … Continue reading →

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13.6.42

Posted on 13 June by orwelldiaries

The most impressive fact about the Molotov visit is that the Germans knew nothing about it. Not a word on the radio about Molotov’s presence in London till the signature of the treaty was officially announced, although all the while … Continue reading →

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11.6.42

Posted on 11 June by orwelldiaries

[The Germans announce over the wireless that as the inhabitant of a Czech village called Ladice° (about 1200 inhabitants) were guilty of harbouring the assassins of Heydrich they have shot all the males in the village, sent all the women … Continue reading →

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10.6.42

Posted on 10 June by orwelldiaries

The only time when one hears people singing in the BBC is in the early morning, between 6 and 8. That is the time when the charwomen are at work. A huge army of them arrives all at the same … Continue reading →

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7.6.42

Posted on 7 June by orwelldiaries

The Sunday Express has also gone cold on the second front. The official line now appears to be that our air raids are a second front. Obviously there has been some kind of government handout to the papers, telling them … Continue reading →

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6.6.42

Posted on 6 June by orwelldiaries

The Molotov rumour still persists. He was here to negotiate the treaty, and has gone back, so it is said. No hint of this in any newspaper, however. There is said to be much disagreement on the staff of the … Continue reading →

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4.6.42

Posted on 4 June by orwelldiaries

Very hot weather. Struck by the normality of everything – lack of hurry, fewness of uniforms, general unwarlike appearance of the crowds who drift slowly through the streets, pushing prams or loitering in the squares to look at the hawthorn … Continue reading →

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