Politics and The English Language — George Orwell

In Moulmein in lower Burma I was hated by large numbers of people the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me I was subdivisional police officer of the town and in an aimless petty kind of way anti European feeling was very bitter No one had the guts to raise a riot but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so When a nimble Burman tripped me up on the football field and the referee another Burman looked the other way the crowd yelled with hideous laughter This happened more than once Tanıtım Bülteninden