The Orwell Diaries by George Orwell

Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141930657
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
Published: 2010-06-03T07:00:00+00:00

21.6.40: No real news. I see from yesterday’s paper that Chiappe47 has been elected president of the Paris Municipal Council, presumably under German pressure. So much for the claim that Hitler is the friend of the working classes, enemy of plutocracy, etc.

Yesterday the first drill of our platoon of the L.D.V. They were really admirable, only 3 or 4 in the whole lot (about 60 men) who were not old soldiers. Some officers who were there and had, I think, come to scoff were quite impressed.

47. Jean Chiappe (1878–1940), Corsican head of the Paris police, 1927–34, was pro-Fascist and responsible for severely repressive measures against the left. Elliot Paul, referring to his dismissal on 2 February 1934, described him as ‘one of the ringleaders of Pétain’s Cagoulards, the hooded order conspiring for a fascist dictatorship’ (A Narrow Street, 1942, chap. 24). For Orwell on Chiappe’s death, see War-time Diary, 1.12.40.

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