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- From: dsb@world.std.com (David Boyce)
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
- Message-ID: <C184v6.1tn@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <TAK.93Jan21115804@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan21.203537.29848@walter.bellcore.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:54:42 GMT
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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"?
- >
- >-yatin.
-
- I don't remember all the details, but there was such a controversy.
- In fact, George Orwell wrote an essay which essentially amounts
- to a defense of Wodehouse, published in one of Orwell's books of
- essays. See that for further information. As I recall, the gist of it
- was that PG was living in France and doing a radio show when the Germans
- took over. They offered to let him continue the show and he, being
- politically naive (this is Orwell's analysis but I think it's pretty
- clear that Wodehouse didn't pay too much attention to current events,
- or anything that happened after 1920 for that matter) continued doing it.
- Meanwhile, the Germans were broadcasting it back to England where it
- was used as propaganda.
- I think this may have been a part of his decision to move to the US
- where he spent the remaining years of his life.
-
- David Boyce dsb@world.std.com
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