真的,我终于看到了那份1949年5月4日进入外交部半秘密部门的档案,那是乔治·奥威尔众所周知的“秘密共产党员”名单。它就在我面前,装在米色文件袋里,放在一名外交部高级档案员的办公桌上。尽管围绕着这份名单发生过许多争执,但自1949年5月2日,根据乔治·奥威尔从病床发送的原始名单的正式打印稿交给他的密友西莉亚·柯万(她刚刚开始进入外交部的信息研究部门IRD)之后,整整五十四年没有一名非官方人员被允许查阅它。这份名单中包括三十八名记者和作家的名字,这些人, Really, I finally saw the file that entered the semi-secret department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 4, 1949, which is the well-known list of “secret communists” by George Orwell. It was in front of me, in a beige paper bag, on the desk of a senior Foreign Office staff member. Despite many disputes surrounding this list, on 2 May 1949, an official print of the original list sent by George Orwell from his bed was given to his close friend Celia Covent (she had just After entering the Foreign Ministry’s Information Research Unit, IRD), no unofficial officer was allowed access to it for the entire 54 years. The list includes the names of thirty-eight journalists and writers who,