Orwell diaries spring to life

I had given up on the Orwell diaries failing to be riveted by the prospect of one or two eggs.

It now though appears that they may have come to life with the commencement of the second world war having been reached.

Invasion of Poland began this morning. Warsaw bombed. General mobilization proclaimed in England, ditto in France plus martial law. [Radio]
Foreign & General
1. Hitler’s terms to Poland boil down to return of Danzig & plebiscite in the corridor, to be held 1 year hence & based on 1918 census. There is some hanky panky about time the terms were presented, & as they were to be answered by night of 30.8.39,[1] H.[2] claims that they are already refused. Daily Telegraph [a]
2. Naval reservists and rest of army and R.A.F. reservists called up. Evacuation of children etc. begins today, involving 3m. people & expected to take 3 days. [Radio; undated]
3. Russo-German pact ratified. Russian armed forces to be further increased. Voroshilov’s speech taken as meaning that Russo-German alliance is not contemplated. Daily Express [b]
4. Berlin report states Russian military mission is expected to arrive there shortly. Daily Telegraph [a]

Maybe now I will resume the RSS feed

Orwell deleted from the Kindle

It seems that George Orwell's books are suffering from censorship even this digital age.

On Friday the New York Times reported that Animal Farm and 1984 both vanish from Amazon's Kindle machine but it seems that copyright is the problem.

According to the paper

An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. “When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers,” he said.

George Orwell joins the blogging brigade

We have had the oldest blogger,and a blogger with a blast form the past.

Now I am delighted to say that George Orwell has returned from the grave to start his own blog.Well almost.The dairies from the author of 1984 and the Road to Wigan pier amongst many is having his diaries put online 70 years after they were written and the series begins on the 9th August over at a site called the Orwell Prize

Ht-Harry's Place