From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   Joe Fineman wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
      
   Thx. That's a howler about Henry Wallace. IIRC Orwell wrote letters to   
   Macdonald specifically hoping Wallace wouldn't win. Can look them up if   
   you're interested.   
      
   /M   
      
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