Another discussion of the "1984" introduction

[Otto]

With interesting links, thanks a lot for this:

"My country, right or wrong" is on the same moral level as "My mother, drunk
or sober."
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/

As I Please
Tribune, 24 December 1943
Attacking me in the Weekly Review for attacking Douglas Reed, Mr. A. K.
Chesterton remarks, "'My country -- right or wrong' is a maxim which
apparently has no place in Mr. Orwell's philosophy." He also states that
"all of us believe that whatever her condition Britain must win this war, or
for that matter any other war in which she is engaged."
The operative phrase is any other war. There are plenty of us who would
defend our own country, under no matter what government, if it seemed that
we were in danger of actual invasion and conquest. But "any war" is a
different matter. How about the Boer War, for instance? There is a neat
little bit of historical irony here. Mr. A. K. Chesterton is the nephew of
G. K. Chesterton, who courageously opposed the Boer War, and once remarked
that "My country, right or wrong" was on the same moral level as "My mother,
drunk or sober."
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/12_24_43.html

In this e-text the Newspeak-grammar is missing:
http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/1984/1984.htm

But it's here:
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html

Otto

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