Sorry, folks, got a citation from memory wrong earlier:
George Orwell's introduction was to "Animal Farm" (and not to "1984").
Some memorable excerpts and link to full text below, well worth a read
(even as it's difficult to agree there on the impact of official
censorship in Britain on the colonies during WW2, e.g. with respect to
the very arguably avoidable deaths of over 3 million during the 1943
Bengal famine; but, not knowing the full details, my generous
interpretation would be that perhaps less was known about this at the
time Orwell was writing this, ca. 1945: perhaps Orwell today would also
disagree on this with Orwell in '45):
"[F]reedom, as Rosa [Luxemburg] said, is ‘freedom for the other fellow’.
"[....] The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that
it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and
inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.
[....] To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an
advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees
with the record that is being played at the moment."
-- Source: George Orwell, 'The Freedom of the Press.' (Proposed
preface to Animal Farm, first published in the Times Literary Supplement
on 15 September 1972 with an introduction by Sir Bernard Crick. Ian
Angus found the original manuscript in 1972.) Orwell Foundation
<https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-freedom-of-the-press/>.
Diversely Yours,
Navdeep
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