From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  writes:   
      
   > P.S. What was the Crick error?   
      
   To quote from my letter (22 April 1983), of which I kept a carbon:   
      
     In Chapter 17 (Penguin ed. p. 536) there is an incredible   
     statement that Dwight Macdonald "convinced [Orwell] that Henry   
     Wallace's Presidential candidature should be the hope of the   
     world."  There must be some mistake here.  Macdonald (of blessed   
     memory) despised Wallace and wrote a devastating attack on him for   
     _Politics_ (May-June 1947, reprinted in _Memoirs of a   
     Revolutionist_), which he expanded into a book (_Henry Wallace:   
     The Man and the Myth_) that was I think published during the   
     campaign of 1948.  In addition, it is unlikely that Orwell, with   
     or without Macdonald's help, would be taken in by the Progressive   
     Party, which was (at any rate by the time of the convention in   
     July) transparently a Stalinist front.  (I myself was taken in, it   
     is true, but I was rather totalitarian-minded at the time & did   
     not find the world of 1984 altogether unattractive.  Also, I was   
     only ten.)   
      
   I also complained about his treatment of one of Kipling's stories, and   
   mentioned some adumbrations of _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ in Bertrand   
   Russell.   
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