Could it be that consciously or unconsciously the character, or choice of name,"Emmanuel Goldstein", was influenced by knowledge of the Trotskyite journalist and academic Arthur Goldstein - exiled in Paris on the accession of the Nazi Party to power, hiding near Toulouse during the war, and last heard of on the way from Drancy to Auschwitz?

It is just a thought on my part. Did Orwell know or know about Arthur Goldstein?

Ted Baty
(The Reverend Doctor Edward Baty)