Letters

Letters

Editors:

Gordon Beadle, in “Orwell and the Neoconservatives”(Dissent, Winter 1984), has disposed of the neoconservative attempt to “steal” the Orwell who wrote throughout his life as an unorthodox leftist and fought in Spain on the side of the revolutionary anti-Stalinist party, the POUM. Reading, a little while back, through the excellent biography of Orwell by Bernard Crick, I came across the following paragraph: