* Bernard Crick cites Orwell writing, shortly before his death in 1950, about his book Nineteen Eighty-Four: ‘My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable and which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism…I believe also that totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere, and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences’ (Crick, George Orwell: A Life, p. 569).