George Orwell: A Life in Letters (105 page)

paper shortage, 175, 225,
229
, 230, 240, 256, 281
, 283, 340, 344,
382
, 394, 403

‘Parental Ode to My Son, A’, 451

Paris, xi, 3,
37
, 38, 40,
41
,
55
,
67
,
69, 118,
173
, 221, 243, 244, 246,
246
,
250
,
255
, 261, 263, 273, 274, 281, 291
,
292
, 294,
298
,
304
, 341, 384, 401, 410,
445
, 489; and see
Down and Out in Paris and London

Parker, Buck, 75,
76

Parratt, Nancy,
519
;
L: to
Orwell 488; 488

Partisan Review
, 200, 201,
202
, 206, 223, 335,
400
, 439, 45
0, 457

Partisan Review
Award, 476

P.A.S. drug, 434,
434
, 436, 439

Passchendaele,
115

Pathé, Odile, 297, 301

Pauker, Ana, 458,
459

pay award, 1945,
245

Payne, Robert,
461–2

Peace News
,
159
, 201

P[eace] P[ledge] U[nion], 94,
97
, 158,
159
,
237

Pearson, Hesketh, 448,
449
, 450, 452

Péguy, Charles,
404
, 413,
414
,

Pekin,
215
, 477

PEN
Conference, 346,
347

Penguin Books, L: 211; 139, 140,
140
, 150, 162,
170
,
234
, 308,
328
,
340, 3
42, 396, 401

Penrose, Roland, 164,
165

People’s Convention, 190, 191,
455

Perpignan, 166

Perriam, Miss, 140, 167

Persia, 369;
see
Teheran

petrol rationing, 391,
391
,
393, 397

Philadelphia Inquirer
,
488

Phillips, William, L: 476;
229

phthisis, 107,
108
, 110, 146–7

Pickford’s, 299,308,
309
, 422, 462

pickle-jar aquarium, 16

Picture Post
, 200;
145
, 178, 199,
245
,
286
,
328

picture restoration, 417, 422,
423
,
479
,
487

‘Pig’:
see
Eileen Blair,

pig bought/slaughtered, 397, 416, 420, 42
5, 485

Pigling Bland
, 281

Pilate, Pontius, 325,
326

Pioneer
,
The
,
102

Pitter, Ruth, 34,
35

Pivert, Marceau, 83,
85

Place of the Lion
,
The
, 483

Platt-Mills, John, 463,
464

Plowman, Dorothy,
519
;
L:
191, 289; 115,
149
, 156, 221, 290

Plowman, Max,
519
; L: 11;
105
,
134
,
149
,
156,
159
,
192
, 200, 290

Plowman, Piers, 192,
192
, 290,
291

Plymouth bombed,
183

Poland/Polish, 122, 246, 267, 272, 292, 303
, 304, 355, 382, 445–6, 454

Polish Trial, 264–6, 266

Warsaw Uprising,
330

Polanyi, Michael, 354,
355

Polemic
, 33, 284, 294, 296, 301, 305, 319,
323
, 329, 330
, 332, 334, 341,
353
, 354, 400, 456

police,
21
, 81,
82
, 83, 84, 85, 91
, 93, 109, 117,
153
, 173, 190, 198,
199
,
301, 312 322

Politics
,
224
,
284
,
328,
330
,
331
, 333
, 334–5,
335
, 341, 353, 394, 400, 4
02, 423,
423

Politics & Letters
, 399, 400, 419, 439

‘Politics and the English Language’, 281,
330

‘Politics vs Literature’, 281,
320
,
323
,
331

Pollitt, Harry, 74,
75
, 85,
87

poltergeists, x, 181

Pons, Jean, 55,
55

poodle:
see
Marx

Popham, Anne,
519
; L: 293, 307, 321,
322

Popular Army, 91

popular culture, ix, 176, 223,
225

Popular Front, 88, 151, 153, 176

Porteous, Hugh Gordon, 338,
339

Portrait and the Anti-Semite
,
419

Possenti, Umberto,
46

Possev
,
272
,
423
,
480,
480

Possible Worlds
,
19

Postman Always Rings Twice
,
The
,
442

potato ration,
385
;
and see
xiv, 176

Potter, Beatrix,
281

Potts, Paul, xiv, 268, 315,
315
,
316
, 470,
471

POUM
, the, 79, 80
, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 108–9, 137,
162

suppression of, 81, 83, 84, 91–
3, 99–100

Powell, Anthony,
519
; L: 262, 367, 411, 475;
368
, 391

Powell, Lady Violet,
520
;
263

Prayer Book: see
Book of Common Prayer

praying circle, 159

press, secret, 154, 163, 164

Preston Hall Sanatorium, 32,
102
,
103, 1
07, 110,
134
, 146,
300

‘Prevention of Literature, The’,
275
, 281,
347

prices: equivalents, xviii, 73, 245

Priest Island
,
255

Priestley, J.B., 199, 200,
205
, 408

‘Principles of Newspeak’, 435,
436

printing press, secret, 163

prison,
162
, 184, 190
,
292
,
356

Pritchard, Joyce, 222,
255

Pritt, D.N., 190,
191
, 275, 463,
464
, 470

propaganda, 24,
75
,
176, 187, 189, 195, 204, 207, 210, 212, 216, 270,
310
, 349, 358, 453, 455, 457–8, 480,
480

prospect of war, 120, 123
, 126

Protestantism, 16, 242

pseudonym, choosing, 14, 22, 48,
204
,
298
,
356
,
460
,
462

Psmith in the City
, 253,
256

Pulleyne, Collett Cresswell, 17,
18
,
20

Purple Land
,
The
,
409

Quakenbrück, 302,
303–4

Queen, H.M., 283

Radio 3 (
also
as
C and Third Programme), 196,
326

‘Raffles and Miss Blandish’, 221, 223,
224
, 224,
241

Raffles Museum,
35
, 61

Ragg, T. Murray,
202

Rahr, Lew, 480

Rahv, Philip,
520
; L: 300;
476

Raimbaud (a hunchback), 301

Raimbault, René–Noël,
520
; 38, 44, 45, 54; 38, 43, 54,
55

death of daughter, 54

rape, 10

rationing, 115, 176,
177
,
314
,
323,
325
,
382
,
385
,
399, 452,
452
, 466

‘Ravensden’, 255

Read, Herbert,
520
; L:
153, 163; 230, 231,
231
,
382

Redcliffe-Maude, Baron, 7, 8,
8

Reed, John,
355

Rees, Lady, L: 156; 157

Rees, Richard,
520
;
L: 317, 436, 440, 448, 451, 456, 459, 462, 467, 469, 47
4, 483, 484, 486; x,
23
, 50, 51, 57,
58
, 59,
76
, 82,
98
, 124,
157
,
158, 162, 192, 21
2, 274, 289, 290,
318
,
339
,
366
,
388, 415,
433
,
437
,
441
,
449
,
465, 482,
482

‘Reflections on Gandhi’, 101,
400

Rendall, R.A., 197

‘Reprintable Essays’, 456,
457

Reuther, Walter, 402,
404

Revolt!
, 163, 165

Reynal, Eugene, L: 385,
225
,
289

Reynolds, Reginald,
407

Rhine, J.B.,
441

Rhine, River, 25
1,
260
, 311

Rhondda, Lady, 24,
25

Rice, Elmer, 61

Richards, Frank (Charles Hamilton),
177
,
178,
426

Richards, Marie-Louise, 426,
426

Richards, Vernon,
520
;
165
, 426,
426

Riddell, George, 33,
35

Ridley, Edie,
125

Road to Wigan Pier
,
The
,
31,
56
, 57,
58
, 61,
62
,
65,
65
,
68
,
68,
69
,
70–1
,
73,
76
, 80,
85
,
98
,
409

Robbery under Law
,
448