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Orwell's list, prepared in 1949 by the English author George Orwell, shortly before he died, comprises names of notable writers and other persons he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the Information Research Department's anti-communist propaganda activities.〔("Orwell's List" by Timothy Garton Ash. ) ''The New York Review of Books'' Volume 50, Number 14. 25 September 2003〕 ==Background== The Information Research Department was a propaganda unit set up by the Labour government in 1948 based at the United Kingdom's Foreign Office, after the start of the Cold War. Celia Kirwan, who had just started working as Robert Conquest's assistant at the IRD, visited Orwell at a sanatorium where he was being treated for tuberculosis in March 1949.〔(Obituary ''The Guardian'' )〕 Orwell wrote down the names of persons he considered sympathetic to Stalinism and therefore unsuitable as writers for the Department and enclosed it in a letter to Kirwan.〔 The list became public in 2003.〔(John Ezard "Blair's Babe – Did love turn Orwell into a government stooge?" ) ''The Guardian'', 21 June 2003〕 Having worked for Cyril Connolly's ''Horizon'' magazine, and briefly as an editorial assistant for Humphrey Slater's ''Polemic'', Kirwan was Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law and one of the four women to whom Orwell proposed after the death of his wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy in 1945.〔〔Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.). ''The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose (1945–1950)'' (Penguin)〕 Although Koestler had supported such a match, Kirwan turned him down.〔Celia () in Stephen Wadhams ''Remembering Orwell'', Penguin Books, 1984〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orwell's list」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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