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> long tarnished by charges of Nazi collaboration Is that an American or a British thing? I know quite a few diehard fans of Wodehouse in India. One of them ev
by lake99 10y ago
> long tarnished by charges of Nazi collaboration
Is that an American or a British thing? I know quite a few diehard fans of Wodehouse in India. One of them even sent me transcripts of his radio broadcasts. The broadcasts seemed entirely innocuous to me. And my friends who don't like Wodehouse's writings are not aware of the broadcasts at all, suggesting that that's not the reason they don't read his works.
- neaden 10y agoBritish thing I believe, at least I've never heard it mentioned Stateside, though Wodehouse isn't very famous here. I think a lot of people were angry at him at the time is happened and stayed mad for the rest of his life.
- mattmanser 10y agoIt's further in the article: It was largely innocent stuff...[but]...[h]is timing could not have been worse. June 1941 was a low point in the Allies’ conduct of the war. The Nazis, with tank divisions storming across Soviet Russia, seemed on the brink of victory. Wodehouse’s “treachery” became the object of hysterical warmongering in the British media, led by an alliance of the Daily Mirror and the BBC.
- jnbiche 10y ago> The broadcasts seemed entirely innocuous to me. Well, the point was that he did them at all.
- abritinthebay 10y agoHonestly it rarely comes up as anything but a historical footnote in modern times. But back then... it was a huge deal.