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The Real George OrwellThe Road to Nineteen Eighty-FourThe Road to Nineteen Eighty Four

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Orwell attacked the magazine Tribune for its attacks on Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's pro- American foreign policy.

Birth of NATO. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin signs North Atlantic Treaty 4th Ap

  • While in POUM Orwell was under attack from supposed Stalinist comrades.This set him on the road to Nineteen Eighty Four.
  • In the early years of the war, Orwell saw the Home Guard as a potential force for radical, even revolutionary change.
  • The enthusiastic support in Britain for the Soviet Red Army's struggle troubled Orwell.
  • This conference & what appeared to Orwell as its division of the world among Great Powers inspired Nineteen Eighty Four
  • In an essay for Tribune called 'You and the Atom Bomb', Orwell foresaw a permanent stand off between dictatorial atomic powers.
  • At close of 1940s as the Cold War intensified, Orwell & others abandoned idea of a Third Force beyond America & Russia
  • Orwell attacked the magazine Tribune for its attacks on Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's pro- American foreign policy.

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