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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!noao!arizona!sham
- From: sham@cs.arizona.edu (Shamim Zvonko Mohamed)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
- Summary: Berlin Broadcasts
- Message-ID: <30293@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:42:09 GMT
- References: <TAK.93Jan21115804@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan21.203537.29848@walter.bellcore.com>
- Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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- In article <1993Jan21.203537.29848@walter.bellcore.com> yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com writes:
- >I seem to recall that there was some flap over Wodehouse's alleged involvement
- >in Nazi propaganda during WWII. Anyone out there have ``further and better
- >particulars"?
-
- "A spot of bother," you mean?
-
- All bullshit. He did make broadcasts from Berlin, but they were not propaganda
- in any sense of the word. There is an excellent book called "Wodehouse at War"
- that includes the complete texts to all the broadcasts, as well as commentary.
- (Unfortunately it's at home, and I can't remember the name of the author. The
- book is a hardcover with a plain red dust-jacket.)
-
- -s
- --
- "Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release
- future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He
- has made a world for us to live in and delight in." -- Evelyn Waugh
- Shamim Mohamed (shamim@cs.arizona.edu)
-