On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Anthony Calabrese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knows if George Orwell ever wrote anything on > Churchill. I have been looking through some of Orwell's essays and while I > find the odd reference to Churchill (and Orwell named his most remember > creation Winston), I have not found anything more substantive and > comprehensive. > > Any directional pointing would be helpful. > What occurred to me were Orwell's essays "The Lion and the Unicorn," "Notes on Nationalism," and "Politics and the English Language," but while all of them are relevant to Churchill at points, none of them address him directly. So I asked a friend who's a bonafide Orwell expert, and he reported as follows: "It's a striking fact that [Orwell] never wrote anything specifically about [Churchill]. In a poem exchange with the pacifist/appeaser Alex Comfort, who wrote under the pseudonym Obadiah Hornbrook, [Orwell] says that while he'd happily shoot Churchill and all other Tories when the war was over, it was important to back him now. Probably he didn't want to explore this contradiction too far..." Orwell's reply was titled "As One Non-Combatant to Another," but I failed to find the text on-line. Maybe some else has it? I did find this (see at the bottom): http://telelib.com/words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease19440728.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
