George Orwell Diaries

Index

This is an index chiefly of names. No attempt is made to index the various flowers Orwell and Eileen planted, nor to index the minutiae of his concerns for his goats and hens, and the number of eggs collected, etc. In the War-time Diaries there are many, many references to, for example, the bombing of London, but only a number of entries of particular interest are indexed. Similarly, only significant entries affecting Eileen and Avril are noted. On Jura it is apparent that Orwell was closely associated with (and much helped by) Donald and Katie Darroch, and again, only selected references are indexed. To do otherwise than be selective would unhelpfully crowd this index. Specific newspapers and journals quoted in the ‘Diary of Events Leading Up to the War’ are not indexed. It is of the nature of these diaries that the phrases et seq. and et passim might be taken as read for many topics. Pages with significant explanatory and biographical notes are given in bold but by no means all references in footnotes are indexed in bold. The more interesting newspaper cuttings to which Orwell refers (e.g. curing animal skins) are indexed. Mac, Mc, and M’ are indexed as if ‘Mac’ the order thereafter being by following letter; St is indexed as if ‘Saint’. Titles are not given in the index unless there is no first name. Orwell frequently misspelt names; these are maintained in the edition, usually without comment in the diary although occasionally followed by superscript ° ; the index gives correct spellings.

A.A. barrage, 314, 315

Abdication of Edward VIII, 322

Abrams (Baltic Russian), 361

Abyssinia (Ethiopia), xiii, 177, 194, 206, 283, 293, 331, 332, 336, 340, 350, 355, 388, 389, 409

Acland, Richard, 292

Action, 67, 68, 233, 275

Adelphi, The, 2, 26, 33, 50, 58, 311, 386, 501

Adventures of a Black Girl, 56, 56

advertising, analysis, 279, 299, 339–40

Aeroplane, 195, 196

A.E.U. (Amalgamated Engineering Union), 231

A.F.L., 182

Agnes Avenue (no. 4), 62, 63

Agricultural Development Bill, 185

agricultural returns, 219–20

Aicha, 107

air battles, 305, 305

Air Ministry scandal, 123, 124

air raids, xvi, 233, 288 et passim ; casualties, 292, 311–12 ; but see esp., 302, 306, 307, 309–10, 309, 311 (Cardiff), 313–14, 315, 316, 320 (foreigners frightened), 323, 328 (effects on Londoners), 333, 341 (Lord’s), 346–47 (Orwells bombed), 373, 374 (Tokio), 399–400, 399–400 (Germany), 413

alarm clocks, price of, 325

Albatross Press, 206, 285, 285

Albert H., 167

Albertine rose, 165, 173, 173, 250, 475

Ali, Ahmed, 395, 396

Allenby (Wavell’s Life and Orwell’s review), 324, 324

America(n), see U.S.A.

American Book-of-the-Month Club, 414

American Institute of Public Opinion, 221, 221

Amery, Leopold, 177, 177, 230, 402, 403

analogies, 540

Anand, Mulk Raj, 368, 369–70, 373; on Orwell, 369–70

Anderson, John, 231, 231

Anderson, Mrs, 159, 160, 205, 248, 258, 293

Anderson air-raid shelter, 231

Anglo-American deal with Germany, 194, 195; see also Wohltat, Herr

Anglo-German Fellowship, 206, 209 ; and see “The Link”

Anglo-Indian, 103

Anglo-Russian Agreement/Pact, 189, 191, 192, 193, 196, 197, 355, 378, 380 (also as Anglo-Soviet)

Animal Farm, xix, 26, 80, 82, 156, 289, 359, 413, 414, 523, 569; broadcast, 471

Annunciador, El, 89

Arab funerals, 131

Arabs, xi, 101–47 passim

Ardlussa, 415, 425, 432, 445 et seq.

Ardlussa Estate, 432

Ardlussa road a morass, 451

A.R.P., 181, 317

“As I Please,” ix, 413, 471

Asquith, Herbert Henry, xii

Asquith, Margot, 280

Astor, David, 382, 382–83, 384, 404–5, 406, 437, 481, 543, 554, 559, 567

Astor, Lady, 382

Astors, the, 381, 382

Asturia, 94, 210, 211

Athens, 342

Atlantic, xiii, 209, 287, 335, 380, 414, 439, 550

Atlas, L’, 97

Atlas Mountains, x, 100, 104, 109, 113, 124, 125, 129, 136, 140, 141

Atrocities, 376, 409; tabulated (post 1918), 388; not individually indexed

A.T.S., 362

Attlee, Clement, 228, 230, 366, 380 (as “recently dead fish”)

Auchinleck, Gen Sir Claude, 381, 381, 392, 410

Austerlitz, Battle of, 338, 338

Australia, 7, 88, 342, 343, 343, 344, 345, 349, 350, 351, 389, 390

Aylesford, 81, 85

Azad, Abdul Kalam, 402, 402

Bagdad, 350

Baker, John, 414

Balbo, Italo, 298, 298, 299

Baldock, 207, 243, 246, 252, 261, 265, 319

Baldwin Stanley, 192, 196, 208, 209

Balkans, 330, 336

balloon barrage, see barrage balloons

Baltic states, 193, 194, 199, 205; absorption by USSR, 301

Barcelona, xii, xx, 81, 140, 176, 201, 299, 311, 318, 325; fall of, 139–40

Bardia, 326, 326

Barnhill, xix, 289, 414–16, 419 et seq. ; lists of requirements and tasks to be done, 464–65, 467, 477, 522–23, 531, 532, 547–48, 562

Barnsley, 62, 63, 64, 68, 77, 78, 341

Barnsley Main Colliery, 77

Barnsley Public Baths, 68

Barr, James, 218

barrage balloons, 233, 333

Barrett (itinerant), 17

Bartlett, Vernon, 300, 300–301, 356

Bastille, 187

Bastiniani, Giuseppe, 185

baths, inc. public and pithead, 66, 68, 70, 73, 76

Battle of Britain, 124, 305, 361

Battle of Britain, 337

Battle of Cable Street, 68

Battling Siki, 50, 51

BBC, xiii, 26, 177, 225, 289, 355, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 367, 368, 371, 380, 386 (cleaners singing), 386–87 (Lidice), 390, 390 (its moral squalor), 396, 410–11, 411, 413, 432, 539; Animal Farm broadcast, 471; Orwell’s Little Red Riding Hood broadcast, 432

BBC Talks Assistant, Orwell as, 359

“Beachcomber,” 53

Beaverbrook, Lord (=Max Aitken)/Beaverbrook press, 189, 190, 196, 208, 275, 276, 282, 356, 361, 362, 375, 378, 382, 382

B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force), 274, 275, 275, 276, 277, 278

Belcher, George, 17, 19

Belgium, 229 (King of), 273, 274 (surrender), 276, 346, 388

Belgrade, 336

Belomor-Baltic Canal, 185

Bengal Lancer (Lives of a) (film), 108

Benghazi, 332, 336, 338, 340

Beresina, River, 356

Bergery, Gaston, 303, 303

Berlin, 97, 222, 224, 232, 308, 331 (leafleting), 365, 366, 374, 375, 384, 395, 399, 410

Bermondsey Public Library, 22, 216

Bessarabia, 296

Besteiro, Julián, 181, 181

Bevan, Aneurin, 81, 227, 228, 231, 287, 365, 366

Biggar, 417, 418, 425

Bigland, George (horse thief), 16

Billingsgate, 3, 21, 22, 23

Birmingham, 29, 312

blackout, 183, 183, 233

Blackshirts, 66–67, 69, 284

Blair, Avril (= A.), xix, 1, 414, 425, 448, 474, 490, 502 (dislocates shoulder), 513, 518, 523–24, 533–34 (diary entries), 555, 561 et passim

Blair, Eileen (= E.), xix, xx (spelling), 28, 54, 80, 81, 160, 168, 184, 225, 231, 239, 245, 264, 270, 273, 275, 278, 298, 306, 310, 325, 333, 334 (her humour), 342, 347, 413–14 (her death), 418, 418 (her grave), et passim

Blair, Marjorie (Marjorie Dakin), 1, 56, 62, 416 (funeral)

Blair, Richard (Orwell’s son) (= R.), 413 (adopted), 422, 473 (falls), 478, 478 (v. poorly), 479, 481, 484 (3 years old), 495, 499, 503 (bullies Orwell), 505, 515, 559

Blair, Richard Walmesley (Orwell’s father), 1, 82, 154 (death), 172 (death)

Blake, William, xiv

Blest’s farm, 11, 12, 16, 17

blimp, 289, 308, 408; and see umblimp

blitz, xvi, 324, 325, 328, 341–42, 393, 399, 400

Blitz tablets, 406

Bloody Sunday, 21, 22

Blue Bell (pub), 394

Blue Bell Hill, 85

Blum, Leon, 131–32, 132

Blunt, Anthony (MI5), 404

Bob(bie) (horse), 542, 553, 560

Bokhari, Z.A., 366, 402

Bolzano, 185

bombing, see air-raids

Bonara, Mrs Hastings, 68

Borkenau, Franz, 276, 277, 280, 281, 303

Borstal, 6, 7

Bose, Ras Behari, 391, 391, 406

Bose, Subhas Chandra, 368, 369, 374–75, 375, 379–80, 406

Bow by-election, 284

Bowyer, E.C., 399, 400

Bramley, Ted, 231

Brander, Laurence, 410, 410–11 ; on Orwell, 410–11

brandy, 474, 476, 504

Brecon (& Radnor), 195, 206

British-French Delegation, 212

British-Japanese Agreement, 196, 197

British Somaliland, 303, 305, 306

British Union of Fascists (B.U.F.), 68, 209, 230, 276

Broad Law, 418

Brockway, Audrey, 223, 223

Bromley, 7

Brontës, the, 61

Brotherhood, 56, 56

Brown, Alec, 78

Brown, James, 54, 56, 60

Brownell, Sonia, 277, 567

Brownrigg, W. Douglas S., 398, 399

Buchman, Frank, 368, 369

Buchmanism, 369

Buddicom, Jacintha, 1

Budget (1941), 338, 338

Budziewicz, Witold, 194

Buffalo Bill, 5, 18

Bukharin, Nicolai, 176

Bulgaria(n), 212, 330

Bund, see German-American Bund

Burgess, Guy, 385, 386

Burgin, Leslie, 177, 178

Burma, xi, xx, xiii, 1, 126, 137, 369, 381, 403, 502, 539

Burma Road, 301

Burmese Days, xi, 1, 26, 235, 435, 522

Burslem, 30

Butler, R.A., 294, 296

Butler, Samuel, 308

by-elections, 189 (North Cornwall), 192, 194 (Hythe), 195 (Brecon and Radnor), 199 (Monmouth), 200 (Colne Valley), 206 (Brecon and Radnor), 276, 284 (Bow), 301, 365 (Grantham), 392 (Malden), 394 (Salisbury)

C. (Home Guard poulterer), 344, 353

Cadby Hall, 15

Callow End, 392, 392

call-up, 199–200, 203, 212, 214 (German), 224, 224 (French and German), 226 (French), 230–31 (Polish), 232 (RAF), 277, 327, 378

Cameron, Norman, 385, 386

Campanse, El, 89

camping at Glengarrisdale, 510, 511

Canada, 40, 200, 287, 287, 292 (O. should go), 302, 372, 411, 411

Candide, 128, 131

Canonbury Square (flat), 413, 472

Cape Matapan, Battle of, 336

caravan (dwellers), 16, 38, 87

Cardiff air raid, 311

carriage-and-pair, 377

Carter, Lady Violet Bonham, 186, 187

Carter, the mysterious, 289

Carter’s Tested Seeds, 443

Casablanca, 93, 94, 95, 97, 103, 106, 128, 146, 149, 150, 153, 300

Casado López, Col. Sigismundo, 181, 181

Case for Germany, 210

“Cassandra” (William Connor), 365, 367

Catalonia, xx, 145 (fall of), 200

censorship (and Censorship Department) xiii, xix, 2, 225, 239, 273, 275, 281, 321, 406

Chamberlain, Neville, 124, 145, 153 (“our only hope”), 177, 184, 184, 185, 186, 189, 195, 204, 225, 226, 230, 287, 289, 325, 342, 373, 378, 408

Changkufeng incident, 214, 215

Chapelle, Bonnier de la, 383

Charles II, 26

Chesterton, G.K., xv, 52–53, 53

Chiappe, Jean, 289, 290, 323

China/Chinese, 108 (tea), 179, 188, 191, 196–97, 203, 210, 212, 218, 220, 301, 340, 368–69, 371, 374, 376, 386, 387, 388, 396–97, 401, 411

Chitale, Miss, 412

Chleuh people, 129, 129, 137–38

Christy & Moore, 26

Christy minstrel faces, 66

church bells rung, 412

Churchill, Winston, 106, 179, 179, 183, 184, 186, 189, 206, 208, 230, 233, 275 et seq.

church parades, 334, 410

City of Benares, 287

Civil Defence, 181, 231

Clarke, Duggie, 480, 481

Clarke’s, 167, 234, 246, 247, 252, 253

class distinctions, 33–34

Clent Youth Hostel, 29

Clergyman’s Daughter, A, 2, 27, 68

Cleuh, see Chleuh

Cliffe Park Hall, 32 (illustration)

clogs, 33, 38, 42, 47, 53, 56, 62

C.N.T., 93, 94

coal briquettes, 240

Cockburn, Claud (= Frank Pitcairn), 196, 206, 326

coiners arrested, 41

Coldstream Guards, 410

“College, The” (BBC), 412

Collings, Dennis, 2

Collings, Dr, 86–87, 87

Colne Valley by-election, 200

Colne viaduct, 370

Colonsay, 550, 550

Comert, Pierre (= C.), 321, 322

Comfort, Alexander, 382, 383

Coming Up for Air, x, 122, 153, 169, 195, 204, 207, 285, 523

Comintern, 215, 225, 364

commando raids, 400, 404–5, 405–6, 411

Common, Jack, 385, 386

Comm. Opp., see International Communist Opposition

Communism/Communist Party (C.P.), x, xii, 191, 209, 216, 224, 225, 291, 295, 299, 300, 308, 325, 326, 334, 353, 354, 357, 361, 363, 363, 367, 369, 380, 382, 386, 397, 398, 408, 411

Condition of the English Working Class (Engels), xi

Congress Party, India, 191, 369, 370, 371, 391, 396, 401, 401, 402, 403

Connolly Cyril, 276, 277, 277, 285, 289, 298, 337, 338, 340, 368

Connor, William, 367

conscientious objection/objectors, 200, 208, 367; and see P.P.U.

content analysis, 279–80, 298–99

Controversy, 176, 216

Coral Sea, Battle of, 378, 379

Cornwall, 409

Corryvreckan Whirlpool, 502, 515, 516

Cottman, Stafford, 81

Coughlin, Father, 372, 372–73

Covent Garden, 3, 4, 5

Coventrisieren (to raze to the ground), 323

Coventry, 29, 311, 322, 322

Craig, – (Foreign Legion), 144

Craighouse, 416, 418, 432

Cranham Sanatorium, 563–65; routine, 563–64

Creed, –, 62

Crete, 343, 345, 348–49, 348, 350, 350, 378

Crinan, 503, 503, 515, 542, 552, 554, 555

Crinan lighthouse, 542, 542

Crippen’s mine, 46–49

Cripps, Stafford, 177, 178, 199, 282, 301, 351, 351, 355, 360–61, 364, 366, 367, 368, 371, 372, 377, 379–80, 384–85, 386, 397, 400, 401, 411, 539

Criterion Theatre, 314

Critical Essays, 414, 523

Croats, 201

Crossman, Richard, 287, 289

curing deer skin, 455

curing goat skin, 235, 235

curing rabbit skins, xx, 422, 428, 430, 432, 434, 436, 437, 441, 444, 452, 455

Cyrenaica, 332, 341, 388, 389

Czechoslovakia, 90, 106, 120, 153, 195, 208, 386–87 (Lidice)

Daily Express, xvi, 53, 190, 343, 352, 363, 378, 384, 399, 516 ; not indexed in “Events”

Daily Mirror, 365, 366, 367; not indexed in “Events”

Daily Telegraph, 176, 280, 406; not indexed in “Events”

Daily Worker, 275, 325, 326, 397, 406, 408; not indexed in “Events”

Dakar, 300, 318, 348, 348

Dakin, Humphrey and Marjorie, 56, 62, 416, 510, 516

Dakin, Jane, 510

Daladier, Edouard, 106, 106, 128, 202, 208, 232

Dallas, – (LPEC), 218

Danzig (Gdansk), 177, 177, 184, 193, 194, 201, 202, 210, 220, 221, 232, 232, 323

Dardanelles, 343

dari, 253, 253

Darlan, François, 347, 348, 349, 382, 383

Darlington, C.D., 360

Darlington Road (no. 22), 39–40, 40

Darroch, Donald (= D.D.), 419, 419, 436, 457, 473, 476 et seq.

Darroch, Katie (= K.D.), 436, 457, 473, 476 et seq.

Daughters of Albion, 78

Davy lamps, 49–50, 71, 75

day hole pit, 66, 70, 73

DBST, see time

Deafie, 16–17, 20

Dean of Canterbury, see Johnson, Hewlett

deer carcase, 454–55

de Gaulle, Charles, 290, 297, 297, 318, 365, 407

Degnan, Tommy, 69, 77, 78

delayed-action bombs, 313, 317

Delhi, 371, 395

Democracia, 90

Denham, 370

Dépêche de Fez, 139

Dépêche Marocaine, La, 93

Derby, The, 352

despair (Orwell’s), etc.: depressed, 296, 364; despair, 299, 320, 370; feeling defeated, 369–70, 392, 409; frustrated, 390, 396; helplessness, 333, 347, 348, 536–37; horrified, 385; Hugh Slater’s despondency, 401; impotence, 408

de Valera, Eamon, 279, 280

diaries and Orwell, xii and xix–xxi (“the other diary”), 81, 82, 273–74, 404, 414, 422 (“the other diary”), 422

Dick, Dr (Hairmyres), 550, 554

Dick’s Café, 3

Didecais, 16

Diener, May and John, 50, 50

Dieppe Coat advert, 406

Dieppe Raid, 404–5, 405–6, 411

dinghy (RAF, rubber, praam), 474, 490, 492, 493, 494, 513, 558, 560, 560, 562

Directive 16 (Hitler’s invasion of England), 302

discussion groups/discussions, 56, 61, 195, 204, 290, 318, 324, 384–85

dishwashers in Paris, 17, 19

“Distressed Areas, the,” 28, 37

Dobies (nurserymen), 459

dockers, 51

Dollar Law, 418

Domvile, Barry, 210, 210

Doran, Charles, xx

Doriot, Jacques, 303, 303

Dorman-Smith, Reginald, 403, 403

Double British Summer Time, 474, 474

Dowding, Sir Hugh, 124

Down and Out in Paris and London, 2, 26, 80, 413, 522

Drax, Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle, 202, 203

Driberg, Tom, 363, 378, 392

Duff Cooper, Alfred, 321, 363, 365

Duke of Windsor, 300, 301, 322 (and see Edward VIII)

Dunera, S.S., 389

Dunkirk, 273, 276, 278, 279, 280, 288, 304, 341, 358, 393

Dunn, William (Bill) (= B.D.), 490, 490, 494, 495, 503, 524, 534 et seq.

Durruti, Buenaventura, 299, 299

Dynasts, The, 407, 408

earnings and incomes, xix, 13, 18–19, 19, 20, 33, 36, 37, 57, 76, 94, 102, 107, 129, 185, 305, 338

East End(ers), 13, 15, 23, 68, 208, 214, 231, 284, 314, 316, 319

East Kilbride, 472

East Prussia, 221, 232

Eden, Anthony, 177, 177, 230, 233

Edinburgh, 414, 416, 459, 516

Edwards, Ebby (TUC), 218

Edward VIII, 209, 301, 322 (and see Duke of Windsor)

egg production, 179

Egypt, 57, 290, 303, 305, 324, 340, 345, 365, 393, 397, 412

18B Regulation, 389

Eilean Mór, 515–16, 516

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, see Blair, Eileen

El Alamein, 392, 412

Eldon, 31

elections, see by-elections

Elephant & Castle, 314, 315

Eliot, T.S., 26, 360, 413

Ellis, Clough Williams, 80

Ellis, Henry Havelock, 184, 185

Emergency Powers Act, 224, 225, 227, 231

Empson, William, 359, 363, 384–85, 385

English People, The, 413, 471

Eritrea, 332

Estcourt Avenue, Leeds, 56, 56, 60

Ethiopia, see Abyssinia

Eton College, 1, 188, 189, 190, 213, 277, 283, 386, 409, 432

Eton v. Harrow Cricket Match, 188, 189, 190, 283

Eugénie Grandet (Balzac), 5

evacuations, 193, 227, 229, 231, 232, 233, 274, 279, 280, 287, 287, 302, 345, 350

Evening News, 275, 398

Evening Standard, 190, 275, 307, 339 (“blackly defeatist”), 352; not indexed in “Events”

Examiner, 45

“Eye-Witness in Barcelona,” 176

Faber & Faber, 26, 413

F.A.I., 93, 94, 94

Fall of France, 94, 182, 273, 275, 293, 295, 303, 321, 332, 348

Faringdon, Lord, 213, 213

Fierz, Mrs Sinclair, 26

Fifth Army (1918), 70

Finland, 296, 352, 352

Firth, Ellis (erroneously as Hennessy), 69, 72, 76, 78

fishing (by Orwell), 392, 429, 431, 439, 455, 490 et seq.

fishing rods, Orwell’s, 567

Flandin, Pierre-Étienne, 291, 293

flats, 51–52, 347, 347

Fletcher, Robin and Margaret, 419, 432, 465; bring sea trout, 456; gift of gulls’ eggs, 487; maize, 492

Fletcher, R.T.H., 385, 386

“flock mattress,” 43

flying (by Orwell), 472

food (for people), 29, 34, 40, 46, 208, 209, 231, 283, 291, 317, 321, 333, 335, 336, 347, 395, 397–98, 434, 457

forage cap, 310

Foreign Legion, 101, 108, 139, 141, 144–45, 147

foreign reaction, 331

Forrest family, 39–40

“For you can’t do that there ’ere,” 43, 44

Fourth International, 223, 223

four-wheeler cab, 307

France, 16, 30, 101, 134–35, 140, 153, 181, 182, 188, 193, 198, 200, 202, 209, 213, 214, 222, 224, 226, 227, 232, 233, 276, 279, 280, 290, 291, 303, 322 (resistance), 327, 333 (providing food), 342, 363, 364, 375, 404, 413

France, see also Fall of

France, 321

Fray’s College, 26

Frazer, Sir James, 21

Freiheit Movement radio, 222

French post offices, 134–35

Fuller, J.F.C., 190

funeral, Orwell’s, 567

funeral of sister, Marjorie, 416

Fyvel, Tosco, xv, 301, 320, 332, 338, 373

Gallacher, William, 199, 199, 227, 230, 231

Gallup Poll, 221

Galsworthy, John, 2, 61, 62

Gandhi, Mahatma, 368, 396, 401, 402, 406

Garden House, 69

garden layouts (Barnhill), 462, 463, 464, 470

Garrett, George (“Matt Lowe”), 50, 50

Garvin, J.L., 77, 77, 184, 381, 382, 382

gas masks, 187, 233, 293–94; gas warning, 378, 379

Gauber pit, 78

George (itinerant), 17

German-American Bund, 219, 220

German Freedom Radio, 223

German invasion of USSR (as joke), 357

Germany, 67, 74, 106, 139, 147, 150, 153 et seq.

Germany’s War Chances, 210, 211

Gibraltar, 88, 89, 90, 150, 290, 327, 342

Gibraltar Chronicle, 89

Gigha (island), 550, 550

Ginger, Young, 6–23 passim

Glasgow, 144, 180, 287, 312, 414, 418, 425, 431, 469, 472, 543, 551

Glasgow Herald, 502, 516

Glengarrisdale, 424, 424, 425, 439, 510 (camping), et passim

Glentrosdale, 422, 422, 426, 426, 461

GMT, see time

Gneisenau, 335

Goering, Hermann, 195, 361

gold, 199, 199 (deposits), 200, 202, 227, 228

Golden Bough, 20, 21

Gollancz, Victor, 26, 28, 42, 54, 80, 81, 153–54, 210, 261, 273, 274, 300, 329, 08

goose for Christmas, 561, 562

Gorgias, 16

governess cart, 377

Grady, Paddy (= G.), 34, 44, 69, 70, 73, 76, 79

Graham, Duncan, 218

grampus griseus (granpus), 434, 435, 485, 518, 519, 547

Grantham by-election, 365

Greece, 330–50 passim

Green, William, 182, 182

Greenwich, 160, 160, 161, 228, 229, 232, 273, 309, 312, 313, 316, 329, 333 (church in flames)

Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T.), 468

Greenwood, Arthur, 225, 225–26

Grey, Charles, 195, 196

Grey family, 63–64, 65–66

Grigg, James, 366, 367, 378

Grigg, Lady, 367

Grimethorpe pit, 66, 73–74

Gringoire, 131, 131

Guilty Men, 300, 378

gypsies, 14–16

Haffner, Sebastian, 331, 332

Hairmyres Hospital, 472, 535–36 (timetable), 540, 541, 550, 554, 563, 564

Hamburg, 399

Hamilton, Duke of, 347, 350

Hammersmith, 20

Hampstead, 28, 341

“Hanging, A,” 1

Hanley, 30

Hannington, Wal, 36, 37

Hardie, James Keir, 218, 218

Hardy, Thomas, 407

Harrisson, Tom, 382

Hart, Basil Liddell, 189, 190, 192, 336, 336, 345, 349, 351, 379, 392, 409

Hatchett, Old (H.), 167, 167, 169, 247, 263, 266

Hawarth Parsonage, 61

Haw Haw, Lord, see Joyce, William

Hawkins, Desmond, 324, 382, 383

Hawthorns, The, 26

Headingley, 56, 60

heavy cruisers, British, 370–71

heavy cruisers, German, 335

Hebrides, 6, 288

Henderson, Alexander, 213

Henderson, Neville, 226, 228, 228

Henderson, Philip, 78

Henlein, Konrad, 208

Heppenstall, Rayner (R.H.), 288, 289

Hess, Rudolf, 216, 347, 347

Heydrich, Reinhard, 386–87, 388

Hickey, William, 362, 363, 392

Hipwell, W.R., 394, 395

History of the Paris Commune of 1871, 61

Hitler, Adolf, 44, 82, 90, 106, 124, 139, 145; passim in “Events” and War Diaries ; see also Directive 16

Hitler jokes, 212

Hoare, Samuel, 177, 206, 206, 208, 210, 293, 295, 321, 321

Hoggart, Richard, xi

Holborn, 313, 314

Holden, Inez, 273–74, 289, 360, 367, 404, 413, 448

Hollingsworths, Mr Peter and Mrs, 155, 167, 167, 238, 267

Homage to Catalonia, xx, 81, 82, 203, 326, 368, 523

Home Guard (and see L.D.V.), xv, 284, 289, 302, 306, 307, 308, 310, 315, 329, 333, 334 (church parade), 335, 338, 343, 344, 347, 353, 360, 362, 366, 391 (continuous dithering), 397 (radar), 399, 399 (rocket batteries), 410 (church parade), 413

homosexuality, 8 (“Nancy Boy”), 12, 24

Hong Kong, 187, 221, 301

Hôpital Cochin, 64, 64

Hopkinson, Tom, xii, 308

“Hop-Picking” (article), source, 12–15

Hore-Belisha, Leslie, 192, 201, 393, 393

Horizon, 277, 285, 315, 324, 324, 338, 363, 367, 382, 383

Hornby family, 34–36, 34, 36, 40, 46, 60

Hornby income, 36

Horrabin, J.F., 403, 404

horseriding, 502, 502

Hôtel des Negociants, 147

House of Commons, 186, 195, 204, 210, 377 (bombed), 377 (gibbering idiots), 392–93 (vote of censure)

Howard, Peter, 208, 208, 220, 378

“How the Poor Die,” 64, 469

H.P. (unidentified editor), 320–21, 321

Hsiao Ch’ien, 388, 396

Hudson, R.S., 195, 196

Huesca, 309, 312

Humanité, 193, 193, 200, 226

humour and jokes, the Orwells’, 212 (anti-Hitler), 319, 333, 334 (Eileen), 357 (anti-Soviet), 362 (A.T.S. girl and Home Guard), 382, 384 (two Jews on German train), 412 (“Jew joke” at Players’ Theatre)

Hungary, 183, 205, 206, 210–11

Hussein, 128–29

Hyde Park, 37, 231

Hythe by-election, 192, 194

identity cards, 218

I.F.T.U., 180, 180, 181, 182, 182

I.L.P., 81, 82, 186, 186, 191, 194, 212, 213, 216, 218, 223 (Guild of Youth), 225, 227, 230, 296; and see Independent Labour Party

incomes, see earnings

Independent Labour Party, 34, 46, 81, 82, 145, 180, 186, 296; and see I.L.P.

India(n), xiii, 90, 91, 97, 101, 103, 109, 118, 123, 126, 135, 139, 287, 331, 340, 359–77 passim, 378, 380, 388, 390 et seq.

India debate, HoC, 377

India docks, 309

Indian Civil Service, 1

Indian Congress Party, 191, 362, 370

Indian Imperial Police, 1

Inside the Whale, 261, 273

intellectual honesty, lack of, 376

intellectuals, 289, 303, 340, 365, 368, 409

International Communist Opposition, 223, 223

“Internationale,” 355

invasion, xii, 19 (of cockneys), 177, 179, 229, 232 (of Poland), 277, 280, 290, 291, 296 (of Finland), 299, 334, 335, 342 (of Irak), 351, 357, 357 (of Iran), 357 (of Russia), 364 (of Continent), 375 (of Continent), 379 (of Britain), 384, 388 (of China by Japan), 404 (Dieppe), 405 (of Europe: impossible), 409, 410 (of India by Japan)

I.R.A., 197, 199, 202, 203, 219

Irak, 342, 344–45, 346, 347, 349, 364, 407

Iran, 343, 346, 348, 351, 357 (invaded), 364

Irishwoman, old, 9, 10

Ironside of Archangel, Lord, 328, 328

Isle of Man, 376, 388, 389

Italian shopkeepers, attacks on, 283

Italy, 67, 185, 203, 227, 232, 279, 281, 282 (declares war), 284, 288, 293, 294, 295, 303, 322 (invasion of Greece), 324, 326, 327, 330, 332, 336–37, 338, 343, 345, 348, 374, 375–76 (on life in London), 388, 392, 409

itinerary, London to Barnhill, 418

It Was Different at the Time, 274

Jackson, Lydia, 245, 245

Jacobs, Denzil (D.J.), 329, 329

Janina, 342

Japan/Japanese, 150, 179, 191, 196, 196–97, 199, 200, 208, 215, 218, 221, 225, 229, 301, 340, 362, 363, 367, 368–69, 370, 371, 372, 373, 378, 379, 381, 388, 389, 391, 393, 401, 410, 539

Jaques, Eleanor, 2

Jatha, 412

Jennings, Humphrey, 388

Jew(s)/Jewish, x, 6–7, 8, 9, 21, 67, 68, 98, 103, 107, 119, 138, 198, 204, 213, 213, 216, 230, 286, 301, 319–20, 328, 332, 353, 376, 384, 389, 412 (the “Jew joke”)

Jinnah, Mohammed Ali, 403

John Bull, 39, 41, 41

John Lewis, 317

Johnson, Hewlett, 325, 326

Jonathan Cape, 26

Jones, Tom, 366, 367

Jose Luis Diez, 90

Journal de Tang[i]er, Le, 93

Joyce, A.H., 94

Joyce, William, 303, 303, 391

Jugoslavia/Yugo-Slavia, 201, 336, 345, 346

Juneau, U.S.S., 183

Jura, 289, 311, 413, 414 (description) et seq.

Jura, map, 415

K., Mr, 246

Kainit, 520, 520, 521

Karswood, 178, 187, 247, 489

Kate (goat) (“K”), 168, 169, 170, 171, 181

Kaye, Len, 69, 76

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 28, 285, 311

Kennan, Joe (and as Jerry), 34, 34, 46, 46, 47

kiff, 106, 106, 108

King-Hall, Stephen, 188, 188

Kinuachdrach(d), 415, 419, 422, 422, 427 et passim

Kipling, Rudyard, 31, 363, 371

Kitchener, Lord, 401, 402

Kit’s Coty House, 85, 85

Koestler, Arthur, xv, 327, 328

Kopp, Doreen, 417

Kopp, George(s), 216, 404, 404, 417, 420

Korea, 379

Kothari, 411–12

Kronk (farmer), 9

Kun, Béla, xx, 183, 183, 210

Kun, Miklos, xix–xx

Labour/Labour Party (members indexed individually), 33, 67, 81, 177, 178, 180, 186, 188, 199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 206, 212, 213, 224, 228, 229, 233, 282, 366, 389

Labour’s Northern Voice, 33, 33, 382

Lajos, Ivan, 211

Lambeth Cut, 21

Lansbury, George, 213, 213–14, 227, 231, 284

Latakia, 351, 351

Laurie, Prof., 210

Laval, Pierre, 177, 291, 293, 322, 327

Lawson, Mr (deputy), 70

L.C.C. (London County Council), 3

L.D.V. (Local Defence Volunteers), 283, 284, 286, 288, 290, 292, 297, 302 (becomes Home Guard)

League for Jewish-Arab Unity, 213, 213

Lealt (and Burn), 498, 501, 510, 519, 534

Lee, Jennie, 81

Leeds, 56, 79, 210, 510

Left (Forum), 216 ; not indexed in “Events”

Left Book Club, 37, 80, 408, 408

Légion des volontaires français contre bolchevisme, La (L.V.F.), 303

Légion d’Honneur (film), 108

Lemberg, 354

Leningrad, 185, 205, 212, 231, 245, 365

Leverhulme, Lord, 52

Lew Levy’s kip, 2–3, 21

“Liars’ School” (B.B.C.), 359

Libya, 330, 336, 339, 340, 344, 349, 361, 392, 412

Lidice Massacre, 386–87, 390

life in London (acc to Italy), 375–76

Ling, see Luing

“Link, The,” 206, 208, 209, 210, 213, 218, 219

Lissagaray, Prosper Olivier, 61

Lithuania, 354

“Little Grey Home in the West,” 6, 7

Little Red Riding Hood (BBC broadcast), 432

Litvinov, Maxim, 198, 198

Liverpool, 6, 50, 51–53, 55, 312

Lloyd George, David, 208, 208–9, 220, 288, 302, 302, 382

L.M., see Myers, L.H.

Loch a Bhùrra, 516, 516

Loch nan Eilean, 510, 511, 516

London, visits from Jura, 414, 431, 432, 469

London life (acc to Italian radio), 375–76

Longsight, 33

Lord Haw-Haw, see Joyce, William

Lord’s Cricket Ground, 188, 283, 302, 329, 341

Louzon, Robert, 213, 214

Low, David, 307, 307

“Lowe, Matt” (George Garrett), 50, 50

L.P.E.C. (Labour Party Executive Committee), 218

Lübeck bombing, 409

Lucas, Audrey, 276

Luing, 501, 502, 516

L.V.F., 303

Lyautey, Marshal, 128, 129, 149

Lyons’, 15–16, 40, 41

McArthur, Neal, 480, 481

Macclesfield, 32

McEwan, Sally, 432

McGovern, John, 180, 180, 191

M’Kechnie, Alastair, 476

M’Kechnie, Angus, 434, 435, 437, 441, 543

M’Kechnie, Ian, 437, 440, 489, 516, 553, 554, 558

M’Kechnie, Janet, 488, 489

McKechnie/M’Kechnie, Malcolm, 430, 430, 432, 554

MacLaren, Andrew, 213, 214

Macmurray, John, 400, 400

McNair, John, 81

Macnamara, Gen, 306

macon, 260

Madagascar, 377, 378, 409

“Mademoiselle from Armentières,” 341

Madrid, 153, 181, 201, 209, 219, 282, 295, 299, 308, 337, 503

Maginot Line, 150

Mahommed, Mahdjoub (= M.), 119, 124, 147

Maida Vale, 310

Maidstone, 9, 10, 11, 81, 84

Malden by-election, 392

malingering, 64

Malta, xiii, 351, 397–98

Malvern, 394, 395

Manchester, 31, 33, 36

Manchester Evening News, 413

Manchester Guardian and Weekly, 73, 307; not indexed in “Events”

Manchukuo, 178, 179, 179, 180, 184, 199

Manchuria, 179, 214

M & B (May and Baker), 483, 484

Mander, Geoffrey, 206, 206, 210, 225

Mapplewell, 77

Maral, Harold, 119

Marathi Newsletters, 362, 411–12

Margesson, David R., 319, 319, 324

Maroc Matin, 106

Marrakech, 94–149 passim, 153; public gardens, 100, 102, 148

Marrakech Notebook, 151–53

Marriage, Orwell/Sonia, 567

marriages of convenience, 219

Marseilles, 88, 98, 149, 404

Martin, Kingsley, 384, 384

Martin Secker & Warburg, 81; and see Warburg

Marx (the Orwells’ dog), 83, 83, 155, 217, 222, 306, 316

Masefield, Peter, 399, 400

Mason, George, 306, 306

Massacres: Amritsar, 396; by Campbells, 424, 424 ; Dieppe, 405

Mass Observation, 293

“Matt Lowe” (George Garrett), 50

Maxton, James, 144, 145, 218, 225, 226, 227, 230, 231

M.C.C., 283, 284

Meade, Frank, 33, 33

Mellor, William, 389, 389

memory, 538–39

Menon, Krishna, 369, 370

Merchant Marine, 311

Meriden, 29

Merrick, Leonard, 211, 211

Mers el Kébir, 300

Meta(ldehyde), 500, 500, 505

Metaxas, Ioannis, 330, 332

Mexico, 181, 204, 218, 223, 307, 363, 365

Michael? (Home Guard), 286, 311

middle age, effects of, 43, 340, 540 (effects of)

Middlesmoor, 61

Midge Bay, 543, 543

midges, 254, 271, 455, 521, 544

Military Mission to Moscow, 202, 203, 204, 205

Military Training Act (M.T.A.), 200, 200, 233

Miller, see Leonard Merrick

Miller, Henry, 80

Miller Hospital, 160, 160

Milton, John, 285

Minsk, 354

missing diaries, xix–xx, 422

Mitchell, Chalmers, 213, 213

Mitchell’s farm, 9

Mitford, Unity, 285, 285

mobilization, see call-up and Military Training Act

M.O.I., 294, 296, 337, 350, 384

Molotov, Vyasheslav, 223, 226, 228, 346, 347, 355, 380, 381, 383, 389, 398, 398

monetary equivalences, 7, 19, 28–29, 94, 221

Monflorite, 309

Mongolia, 178, 196, 200

Monmouth by-election, 199

Moore, Henry, 329

Moore, Leonard, 26, 28, 42, 239, 472

Moore, Nicholas, 382, 383

Morocco, x, xi, 82–83, 93, 94, 94–149 passim, 153, 229, 284, 290, 347, 348, 383, 421

Morrison, Herbert, 365, 366

Morton, J.B., 53

Moscow, xii, xix, 81, 183, 192, 200, 202, 203, 204, 212, 216, 219, 222, 225, 282, 301, 351, 354, 355, 363, 365, 375, 386, 389, 398, 400, 401

Moslem League, 402, 403

Mosley, Sir Oswald, 66–68, 68, 69, 73, 77, 208, 214, 229, 230, 303, 409

Mosul, 342

motor boat (and outboards), 425, 445, 465, 484, 489, 490, 491–92, 495, 496, 516

Mountbatten, Lord, 378, 393

Mr F’s aunt, 17, 19

M.T.A., see Military Training Act

Mt. Scarba, 533

Muir, John, 177, 177

Munich (and Pact), 106, 124, 145, 153, 184, 206, 208, 230, 276, 295, 300, 301, 408

Muriel (goat) (= M.), 80, 156, 165, 167–81 passim

Mussolini, Benito, 106, 184, 283, 293, 294, 301, 355, 398

Myers, L. H., 82, 176, 228, 229, 230, 295, 296, 298

Namsos, 287, 289

“Nancy Boy” (homosexuality), 8 (“Nancy Boy”), 12, 24

Napoleon, Emperor, 338, 408

Narvik, 282

naval losses: France, 299–300, 300 ; Italy, 336–37 ; Japan, 148, 379 ; R.N., 280, 280, 281 (false claims), 298, 300, 349, 349, 370, 370–71, 378, 405, 406 ; U.S.A., 379

navicerts, 352, 352

N.C.L., 177, 177 (as N.L.C.), 188, 200

Negrín, Juan, 181, 204, 204, 218, 284

Nehru, Pandit, 362, 370, 371–72, 396, 402, 403, 406, 407

Nevinson, H.W., 213, 213

Newark, 416

New British Broadcasting Station (NBBS), 363, 365

Newcastle-under-Lyne, 204, 205

Newcastle upon Tyne, 306, 418

New Leader, 214, 223, 296, 296 ; not indexed in “Events”

News Chronicle, 176, 292, 298–99 (contents), 302, 306, 318 (defeatist), 338 (defeatist), 398; not indexed in “Events”

newsletters for BBC, 359, 361, 362, 362, 364, 377, 380, 411–12 (Marathi)

newspaper canvassers, 39, 41–42

New Statesman, 2, 176, 227, 287, 318, 326, 326, 353, 384, 393, 408

New Zealand, 343, 345, 349, 351

Next of Kin, 406

Nicholls, Mr, 165, 237, 237 ; Mrs Nicholls, 264

Nicolson, Harold, 230, 230, 363, 364

Nineteen Eighty-Four, xi, xiii, xix, 56, 289, 296, 359, 414, 471–72, 523–24, 554, 558, 565

NKVD Archive, xix–xx, 81

N.L.C., see N.C.L.

nonsense poetry, 323–24

North Cornwall by-election, 189

Norway, 177, 179, 181, 275, 282, 289, 330, 346, 375

N.U.J., 198

N.U.W.M., 34, 34, 36, 38, 42, 43, 64

Obelisk Press, 214–15, 215

Observer, 77, 381, 382, 413; not indexed in “Events”

OGPU, 307

old-age pensions, 209

onion shortage, 325

opium trade, x

optical glass manufacture, 221

Oran, 299, 300

Orwell: amateur anthropologist, x; death, funeral, 567; medical board, 296; seriously ill, 533 ff. ; superstition, 26

O’Shaughnessy, Eileen, see Blair, Eileen

O’Shaughnessy, Gwen (= G.), 278, 287, 293, 298, 329, 417, 520

O’Shaughnessy, Laurence, 160, 278, 306

O’Shaughnessy, Laurence (son), 287

Osterley Park Training School, 308, 308, 372

“other diary,” xii, xix–xx, 422

Oued Tensift, 112–13, 114, 130, 131, 132, 134

“Our lousy hops!” (song), 13–14

outboard motor, see motor boat

Owen, David, 385, 386, 397, 403, 539

Owen, Frank, 378, 378

Oxford, Lady, 280, 280

Oxford Street, 317, 329, 359 (No. 200)

P.A.C. (Public Assistance Committee), 54, 54, 57

Palestine, 57, 194, 213, 216, 301

Palmer, –, 222

P & O, 88, 89, 150

parachute mine, 309

Paradise Lost, 285

Paris, xi, 1, 16, 26, 64, 64, 80, 140, 182, 193, 204, 207, 215, 223, 231, 282, 284, 285, 285, 286, 289, 290, 303, 310, 320, 332, 365

Parr, Robert, 94, 123

Parti Populaire François, 303

pawning scarf, 33

Peaceful Inn, The, 277

Peace News, 188, 189

PEN Conference, 414

Penkridge, 29

People, The, 279 (content analysis)

People’s Convention, 325, 357

Perim, 303

Pétain, Henri Philippe, 208, 290, 290, 291, 295, 296, 297, 302, 303, 327, 333, 354, 378

Petit Marocain, Le, 93, 94, 97, 101, 119, 128, 145

petrol, 229, 329 (bombs), 383 (bootleg), 425 et passim ; rationed, 432, 472

Phalange, 90, 94

Phillips, Mr and Mrs, 394

Pile, Frederick, 399

Pioneer Corps, 327, 328, 336

Pitcairn, Frank (= Claud Cockburn), 206, 326

pit woman worker, 70

Plato, 62

Players’ Theatre, 412

ploughing subsidy, 219, 257, 265

Poland, 175, 177, 179, 204, 205, 206, 214, 216, 226, 229, 230, 232 (invaded), 273, 323

Polish Corridor, 232, 232

Popular Front, 132, 282, 301, 307, 355, 366

Portrait of Helen, 276

Port Sunlight, 52

Porvenir, El, 90

Postgate, Raymond, 276

“Potato Pete,” 397

pot-banks, 30

POUM Militia (Spain), 80–81, 176, 203, 203, 206, 325, 365

P.P.U. (Peace Pledge Union), 188, 188, 189, 200, 208, 218, 222, 227

pra(a)m dinghy, 560, 560

Pravda, 355

Presse Marocaine, La, 93, 101, 128, 139

Preston, 41

Preston Hall Sanatorium, 81, 82, 86

prices in Marrakech, 151–53

Priestley, J. B., 319, 319

Prieto y Tuero, Indalecio, 204, 204, 218

Primo Buffo, 29

Prince (horse), 502

Pritt, D.N., 199, 199, 373

propaganda, ix, xvi, 108, 188, 202, 206, 210, 216, 219, 222, 233, 292, 294, 296, 303, 319, 331, 347, 352, 362, 363, 365, 367, 375, 376, 377, 387, 388, 390, 411, 539

propaganda as lies, xiii, 206, 362, 368, 375, 376, 387, 539

Protestant, xv, xvi

Pruth, River, 356

P.S.F. (Parti Social Française), 139, 140

P.S.O.P. (Parti Socialiste Ouvriers et Paysans), 209, 210

publishing programme, 523

Pulleyne, Collett Cresswell, 2

purges, 184, 282, 355, 376, 388

Quiepo de Llano y Serra, 194, 195, 195, 196, 198, 199, 203

radar, 332, 397

Radical and Liberal Club, 65

radio, secret stations, 177, 222, 223, 363, 365, 386–87

radiolocation, 397

radio/stations/broadcasting, 25, 61–62, 147, 177, 222, 223, 224–25, 275, 276, 281, 289, 292, 298, 300, 319, 323, 359, 361, 365, 367, 371, 372, 374, 375–76, 378, 389, 391, 396, 399, 401, 402, 403, 405, 406, 410–11, 465, 471, 485, 532, 540, 563, 564; not indexed in “Events”

railway strike, 221, 224

Rainsborough, Thomas, 378, 378, 386

Ramadan, 118

Ramsgate, 311

Rankin, greengrocer, 526

Rashid Ali al-Gailani, 347, 348

ration cards, 204

rationing (food, clothes, petrol), 457 ; petrol, 432, 457, 472

Read, Herbert, 398, 399

Red Lion (pub), 395

Rees, Richard (R.R.), 26, 33, 50, 81, 204, 311, 474, 490, 501, 503, 539, 545, 547, 562; on Orwell, 503

refugees, xv, 90, 96, 102, 146, 204, 207, 276, 278, 304, 320, 329, 363

Regent’s Park, 162, 273, 297, 298, 310, 318, 359

Regulation 18B, 389

re-housing, 52

Revolutionary Proletarian, 176

revolvers to be handed in, 292

Reynold’s News, 233, 233, 389

Rhineland, 341

rhyming slang, 23

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 222, 223, 225, 228, 231, 355

Richard, Orwell’s son, see Blair, Richard

Richelieu, 300

Ridley, Edie (as Edie W.), 182, 182

Ridl(e)y, Tom and Mrs, 158, 159, 174, 195, 253, 255

Ringwood, 176, 228, 229, 230, 235

Road to Wigan Pier, x, 28, 38–39 (quoted), 40, 46, 54, 80, 81, 305, 408

rocket anti-aircraft (Z) batteries, 399, 399, 413

Rocque, Col, François, de la, 128, 129, 208

Roman Catholic, xv, 50, 52–53, 53, 185, 204, 353, 356, 362, 372

Rommel, Gen Erwin, 326, 341, 392

rooks copulating, 53, 54

Room 101, 359

Roosevelt, President, 315, 357

Rotherham, 58

Rothermere Press, 403

Rowe, –, 62

Rowlands, – (Foreign Legion), 145

Royal Marines, 278, 382, 406

Rozga, Tony (R.), 545, 547

R.R., see Rees, Richard

rubber dinghy, see dinghy

Rubinstein, Harold, 28, 42

Rudyard Lake, 31, 31, 32

Rumania, 179, 183, 225, 230, 296, 323, 342

Runciman, Walter, 208, 208

Rushbrook Williams, L.F., 407, 408

Russia, xiii, 180–412 passim ; “pro-Russian,” 307, 326, 353, 367, 381, 398; and see Soviets; U.S.S.R.

Russo-German pact, 223, 224 (signed), 225, 228, 229, 231, 233, 295, 373; relations, 336

St John’s Wood churchyard, 341

St Martin-in-the Fields Church, 4, 5

St Pancras Working Men’s College, 523

St Paul’s Cathedral, xv, 327–28, 337

Sakhalin, 199

Salisbury by-election, 394

sanfoin, 169, 169

Savoy Hotel, 316

Sawyer, W.W., 176

Scarba, 489, 489, 516; Mt Scarba, 533

Scharnhorst, 335

Scheer, 335

Schocat, Menna, 213, 213

Scotland Yard, 288

scrambling for coal, 44–45

SEAC (South-East Asia Command), 378

Seal, 9

Searles, 57–60; Mrs Searle’s recipes, 59–60

Secker & Warburg, see Warburg, Fredric

Second Front agitation, 326, 357, 373, 384, 384, 390, 392, 393, 398, 400, 401, 404, 408, 409, 412

secret weapon, 331, 332, 333

Senegalese, 51, 101, 144, 147

separate peace?, 361, 364, 368, 369, 373

separating friends, 183, 183

Serbs, 201

Serge, Victor, 363, 365

Sevenoaks, 8, 9

Shaw, George Bernard, 22, 56, 56

Shaw, Robert, 556, 556

shawls, 36, 42, 53

Sheffield, 53, 54–56, 58–63, 386

Sheffield Medical Officer, 61

Shelvankar, Krishna, S. (K.S.S.), 365, 366

“Shooting an Elephant,” 1

shortage of grains, 252

Sidi Barrani, 324

Silent Village, The, 388

Simon, John, 208, 209, 321

Simont, M., and Villa Simont, 94, 110, 110, 112, 118, 128–29, 143

Simpson, Wallis (Mrs S.), 301, 322

Sinclair, Archibald, 177, 177, 185, 186, 225, 230

Sinclair, Frederick, 523

Sitwell, Osbert, 408, 409

skating, 258, 260

Skin Game, The, 61, 62

slang, 23

Slater, Hugh (Humphrey), xii, 308–9, 337, 401, 414

Slovakia, 205, 206, 230–31

slums, 30, 38–39 (girl at drain), 52, 54, 55, 58; clearance, 51

Smallholder, xiv, 239, 247, 253

Smith, C.A., 216, 216

Smith, – (Foreign Legion), 145

Smith, John, 29

Smith, Mikeal, 204

Smith, Winston, xiv

Socialist Correspondence, 176

Soho, 283

Solidaridad Obrera, 89

“Solitary Reaper, The,” 5, 6

Somaliland, 303, 305, 306

South Africa, 56, 340, 350, 391, 402, 406

Southwark Bridge Road, 5

Southwold, 1, 2, 27, 82, 86, 154, 172

Soviets, Soviet Union, xx, 67, 178, 180, 198, 199, 200, 204, 215, 225, 230, 231, 307, 353–54, 355, 357, 386; and see U.S.S.R.

Spain, xii, 44, 80–81, 90, 93, 94, 118, 120, 137, 139, 142, 181, 185, 195, 200, 201, 203, 204, 207, 211, 216, 218, 225, 227, 281, 284, 288, 290, 292, 293, 294, 296, 301, 302, 308, 310, 312, 320, 321, 327, 339, 340, 342, 347, 354, 363, 364, 372, 374, 375, 380, 388, 411

Spandau prison, 347

Spanish Civil War, xi–xii, 80–81, 94, 97, 139, 153, 228, 282, 284, 294, 299, 308, 310, 328, 359, 365, 369, 372, 503; and see Asturia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Madrid

Spanish Morocco, 95, 284, 290

Speakers’ Corner, see Hyde Park

Spender, J. A., 185, 185, 187, 193, 220

Spender, Percy, 344, 345

Spender, Stephen, 281, 315

spies, 389

spraying fruit trees, schedule, 547–48

Stafford, 30

Stalin, 176, 179, 184, 203, 226, 292, 295, 307, 322, 346, 347, 351, 353, 354, 355, 361, 364, 373, 384, 398, 400

Stalingrad, 410

Star, 274, 275

Sten gun, 401, 402, 409; and see tommy gun

Stewart, Oliver, 400, 400

Stewart’s Café, 4

Stores, The (Wallington), 80, 81, 162, 293, 471

Stourbridge, 29, 30

Stratheden, S.S., 82, 88, 88

Strauss, G. R., 287, 289

streptomycin, 535, 537–38, 563

sub-machine-gun, 402

“Such, Such Were the Joys,” 471

Sudeten(land), 106, 153, 207, 208

Suez Canal, 177, 341, 349, 351

Sullivan Brothers, 183

Sultana (Maltese broadcaster), 397–98

Sunday Express, 339, 384; not indexed in “Events”

Sunday Pictorial, 223, 339 (blackly defeatist)

Sunday Times, 303, 382; not indexed in “Events”

Suñer, Ramon Serrano, 200, 201

Sûreté, 108

Swinton, Lord, 304, 304

Syria, 320, 347–48, 349, 350, 351, 352, 377, 378, 407

Tabouis, Genevieve, 182, 182

Taddert, 136–37, 138–40, 142

Tangier, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 140, 284, 294–95, 333, 339, 348

Tangier Gazette & Morocco Mail, 93

tank production, drive for, 356

Tarbert, East & West, 414–16, 418, 469, 481, 501, 502, 542, 551–52

“tart,” use of, 23

tasks and requirements for Barnhill, 464–65, 467, 477, 522–23, 533, 547–48, 553

tasks to be done, Wallington, 244–45

taxi-driver, Paris, 282–83, 283

Taylor, A.J.P., 230

Taylor, D.J., 28

Temps, Le, 94

Thaelmann, Ernst, 43, 43–44

Thalheimer, August, 223, 223

Thetis, H.M.S., 298, 298

Thompson sub-machine-gun, 402

Thunderbolt, H.M.S., 298

Tientsin (Tianjin), 191, 196, 196, 203, 218

timber unprocurable, 246

Time, 300

time, GMT, Summer, Double Summer, Winter, 95, 157, 468, 474

Times, The, 73, 176, 278, 386, 408, 411; not indexed in “Events”

Timoshenko, Gen Semën, 401

Titley, – (T.), 155, 156, 159, 166, 184, 237, 239, 244, 246, 250, 252, 266, 272

Toberonochy, 502, 516

Tobruk, 325, 326, 326, 340, 341, 392 (fall of), 412

Tokio/Tokyo, 187, 191, 198, 215, 218, 220, 366, 373, 374 (bombed), 385, 410

tommy guns, 338, 402

Tooley Street, 21

Torch Theatre, 275

Touareg, 108

Trafalgar, Battle of, 338, 338

Trafalgar Square, 3, 5, 6, 8, 22, 24, 68, 277, 300, 398

Trafalgar Way, 23

Tramp Major, 8–9, 9, 11

Tribune, 228, 275, 289, 359, 366, 378, 378, 389, 408, 413, 469, 471

tripe (shop), 34, 39, 40, 46

Trotsky(ists), 81, 191, 194, 216, 223, 306–7, 307 (Leon Trotsky), 308, 363, 365

Truth, 356–57

Tsingtao (Qingdao), 191, 191

Tube stations as shelters, 316, 319, 328–29, 346

T.U.C., 198, 198, 218

Turkey, 179, 227, 330, 343, 345, 346, 351, 352

200 Oxford Street (“ZOO”), 359

Tyrol (Italian), 185

U.G.T., 93, 94

U.H.P., 93, 94

Ukrain(ian), 204, 361, 364, 389

umblimp, 288, 289 ; and see blimp

unemployment xi, 2, 51, 73, 178; Wigan Pier passim

Unemployment Assistance Board (UAB), 73

unexploded bombs, 313, 317, 318

Universe, 185

University College Hospital, 329, 563, 565–66, 567; timetable, 565–66

U.S.A. (and America[n]), 50, 51, 141, 181, 185, 188, 194, 200, 202, 220, 221, 285–86, 293–94, 300, 301, 303, 306, 315, 321, 322, 331, 333, 340, 346, 348, 353, 354, 355, 357, 360, 362, 371, 372, 372–73, 374, 375, 379, 383, 388, 390, 393, 401, 402, 414, 537

U.S. Communists and Nazis working together, 300

U.S.S.R. as allies?, 355, 355–56

U.S.S.R. invaded by Germany, 352

U.S.S.R./Russia, 36, 101, 180, 181, 182, 184, 189, 193, 194, 195, 196, 199, 203, 204, 215, 221, 222, 224 (Russo-German Pact), 226, 228, 230, 231, 233, 282, 295–96, 308, 322, 326, 328, 336, 343, 346, 351, 352 (invaded), 353–54, 355, 356, 357, 361, 362, 363, 364, 367, 368, 372, 373–74, 375, 378, 380, 389, 393, 398, 401, 403, 408, 414 et passim ; and see Soviets, Soviet Union

Vansittart, Peter, 327

Vansittart, Robert, 327, 327

“Vasano,” 88, 149

Vatican, 366

Vellat, Madame, 94, 107

Venables, Dione, 1

Versailles, 284; Treaty, 177, 208

Vichy Government, 290, 318, 322, 339, 348, 348, 374, 378, 383, 409

Victoria Station, 277

Vidal, Emilio Mola, 299, 299

Vigie Marocaine, La, 97, 119

von Fritsch, Werner, 299, 299

Voroshilov, Kliment, 203, 231, 231, 398

Wallace Road (no. 154), 53

Wallington, xix, 80, 94, 154, 160, 162, 172, 204, 223, 229, 234, 245, 256, 265, 273, 293, 306, 319, 330, 342, 386, 400, 471, 475

Wallington, tasks to be done, 244–45

Warburg, Fredric (and Secker & Warburg) (W.), 81, 301, 329, 360, 379, 380, 381, 401, 414, 471, 565

war correspondent, 400

Wardlaw-Milne, John, 393, 394

War Office (W.O.), 183, 190, 193, 225, 275, 282, 304, 369, 381, 411

Warrington, Lane (no. 72), 34, 40, 46

Warsaw, 232, 233, 314, 323

waterglassing eggs, 262, 495, 495, 497, 498

Wateringbury Station, 18, 20

Waterloo Station, 233, 277

Watson, Peter (P.W.), 285, 285, 338

Wavell, Field Marshal (Earl), 324, 324, 330, 332, 332, 344, 381

weatings, 253, 253

Wedgwood, J. C., 204, 205

Week, The, 205, 206 ; not indexed in “Events”

Weitz, Lucien, 213, 214

Wellington College, 1

Wells, H.G., 304, 304, 366, 367, 403

well-wisher, 42

West Malling, 11, 16

whales, 15, 89, 434, 485, 485

whale thrasher, 434

“when Father turns . . .,” 355, 356

“Why I Write,” ix

Wigan, 25 ff.

Wigan Pier, 23, 36

Wilde, –, 62, 64–65

Wilkinson, Ellen, 227, 228, 231

Williams, (French Foreign Legion), 141, 141, 145

Wilson, Arnold, 208, 209, 223

Wilson, Cecil Henry, 213, 213, 227, 231

Wilson, Harold, 178

Windmill Theatre, 314

Windsor Street, 22

Winster, Lord, 386

Wintringham, Tom, xii, 308, 372, 372, 378, 385

wireless, see radio

Wohltat, Herr, 194, 195, 196

woman in side alley (Wigan), 38–39

Woolwich, 309, 313, 314

Woolworth’s, 7, 173, 268

Wordsworth, William, 6

Workers’ Challenge (radio station), 363, 365

Workhouse Master, 8

Working Men’s Clubs, 62, 64–65

Working Men’s College, 523

Wright, Cyril (C.W.), 204

WRNS (Wrens), 394, 395

W-shaped bays, 426, 426, 461

Yagüe, Blanco, Juan de, 198, 198, 200

Yasukunimaru, SS, 148, 148, 149–50

Young Ginger, see Ginger

Young Scotsman (Foreign Legion), 145

Your Questions Answered, 25

Ystradgynlais, 388

Yugoslavia, see Jugoslavia

“Z” (A.A.) Batteries, 399, 399

Zoos: London, 161–62, 213, 343, 344 ; Maidstone, 84; Marrakech, 97; as 200 Oxford Street, 359; Whipsnade, 213

Zouaves, 119, 304