It'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 o

It'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.