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- From: yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com (Yatin Saraiya,MRE 2D332,4331,2012850997,21273)
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
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- References: <TAK.93Jan21115804@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:35:37 GMT
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- In article 93Jan21115804@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov, tak@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Kreitzberg) writes:
- >In article <AMATHUR.93Jan21120006@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu> amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes:
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- >> I read a lot of PGWs in India. I guess they would be popular in UK and
- >> probably the US. Where else does Wodehouse attract people (I saw a posting
- >> from Sweden) ?
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- >I heard Wodehouse say once that his books were being translated into
- >Russian. (Dickens' as well, I think.) The idea the Soviets had was to
- >show how the idle aristocracy lived, off the suffering of the working
- >poor. I'd be interested to learn how successful this propaganda was....
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- > Tom
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- 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"?
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- -yatin.
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