Orwell’s Mr
Jones – The Farmer
•Did George Orwell recognise Gareth’s
courage in Animal Farm?
•GO wrote: “the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm. Once again it
was being put
about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease .”
•Remember Lyons: ‘Poor Gareth Jones must have been the most surprised human being alive when the facts he so painstakingly
garnered from our
mouths were snowed under by our denials.”
•‘9 [Ukrainian] hens had died of coccidiosis’ c.f. Duranty; ‘No
Starvation, but …diseases due to malnutrition’ – GO certainly knew of Gareth & Duranty.
•Lyons’s reviewed book was
Orwell’s Soviet ‘Bible’
e.g. 2+2=5; Big Brother slogan in ‘1984’
