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Rural Slum Cannot Help Europe’, Observer .
    15 April 1945 : ‘Allies Facing Food Crisis in Germany: Problem of Freed Workers’, Observer .
    16 April 1945 : ‘The French Elections will be Influenced by the Fact that Women will have First Vote’, Manchester Evening News.
    22 April 1945 : ‘Bavarian Peasants Ignore the War: Germans Know They are Beaten’, Observer.
    2 9 April 1945 : ‘The Germans Still Doubt Our Unity: The Flags do not Help’, Observer .
    4 May 1945 : ‘Now Germany Faces Hunger’, Manchester Evening News .
    6 May 1945 : ‘France’s Interest in the War Dwindles: Back to Normal is the Aim’, Observer.
    8 May 1945 : VE Day: end of war in Europe.
    13 May 1945 : ‘Freed Politicians Return to Paris: T.U. Leader sees de Gaulle’, Observer .
    20 May 194 5 : ‘Danger of Separate Occupation Zones: Delaying Austria’s Recovery’, Observer .
    27 May 1945 : ‘Obstacles to Joint Rule in Germany’, Observer.
    5 June 1945 : ‘London Letter’, Partisan Review .
    8 June 1945 : Broadcast for Schools: Erewhon , BBC Home Service.
    10 June 1945 : ‘Uncertain Fate of Displaced Persons’, Observer .
    15 June 1945 : Broadcast for Schools: The Way of All Flesh , BBC Home Service.
    24 June 1 945 : ‘Morrison and Bracken Face Stiff Fights: Heavy Poll Expected’, Observer.
    25 June 1945 : Warburg reports that Orwell has written ‘the first twelve pages of his new novel’. This would eventually become Nineteen Eighty-Four .
    July 1945 : ‘In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse’, Windmill (written February 1945).
    1 July 1945 : ‘Liberal Intervention Aids Labour’, Observer.
    5 July 1945 : ‘Authors Deserve a New Deal’, Manchester Evening News.
    21 July 1945 : ‘On Scientifiction’, Leader Magazine.
    28 July 1945 : ‘Funny but not Vulgar’, Leader Magazine.
    August 1945 : Elected Vice-Chairman of the Freedom Defence Committee.
    15 August 1945 : VJ Day: end of war in Far East.
    15–16 August 1945 : ‘London Letter’, Partisan Review .
    17 August 1945 : 4,500 copies of Animal Farm published by Secker & Warburg.
    10–22 September 1945 : Stays in fisherman’s cottage on Jura.
    October 1945 : ‘Notes on Nationalism’, Polemic .
    8 October 1945 : Forces Educational Broadcast: ‘Jack London’, BBC Light Programme.
    14 October 1945 : ‘Profile: Aneurin Bevan’; anon., chiefly by Orwell, Observer .
    19 October 1945 : ‘You and the Atom Bomb’, Tribune .
    26 October 1945 : ‘What is Science?’, Tribune .
    November 1945 : ‘The British General Election’, Commentary .
    2 November 1945 : ‘Good Bad Books’, Tribune .
    9 November 1945 : ‘Revenge is Sour’, Tribune.
    23 November 1945 : ‘Through a Glass Rosily’, Tribune.
    14 December 1945 : ‘The Sporting Spirit’, Tribune .
    15 December 1945 : ‘In Defence of English Cooking’, Evening Standard.
    21 December 1945 : ‘Nonsense Poetry’, Tribune.
    January 1946 : ‘The Prevention of Literature’, Polemic.
    4 January 1946 : ‘Freedom v. Happiness’ (review of Zamyatin’s We ), Tribune.
    12 January 1946 : ‘A Nice Cup of Tea’, Evening Standard .
    1 8 January 1946 : ‘The Politics of Starvation’, Tribune .
    24, 31 January, 7, 14 February 1946 : Four related articles: ‘1 : The Intellectual Revolt’; ‘2. What is Socialism?’; ‘3. The Christian Reformers’; ‘4. Pacifism and Progress’, Manchester Evening News .
    1 February 1946 : ‘The Cost of Radio Programmes’, Tribune.
    8 February 1946 : ‘Books v. Cigarettes’, Tribune.
    9 February 1946 : ‘The Moon under Water’ (the ideal pub), Evening Standard.
    14 February 1946 : Critical Essays published by Secker & Warburg (as Dickens, Dali and Others: Studies in Popular Culture, by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 29 April 1946).
    15 February 1946 : ‘Decline of the English Murder’, Tribune .
    8 March 1946 : ‘Do Our Colonies Pay?’, Tribune.
    29 March 1946 : Radio Play: ‘The Voyage of the Beagle ’, BBC Home Service.
    29 March 1946 : ‘British Cookery’, unpublished