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JEEVES VS. POOH P.G. WODEHOUSE, CREATOR OF THE ULTIMATE LITERARY BUTLER, AND A.A. MILNE, CREATOR OF WINNIE-THE=POOH, STARTED AS FRIENDS IN EDWARDIAN LONDON. BUT THEIR FALLING OUT IN 1941 REVEALED SOMETHING ESSENTIAL ABOUT THE MEN - AND THEIR LASTING CREAT

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20041226
Author:JAMES PARKER

Few events in the annals of light radio can have received worse reviews than the "talk" recorded by P.G. Wodehouse and broadcast on June 28, 1941. Within days, in newspapers across Britain, the beloved author of "Leave It to Psmith" and "Right Ho, Jeeves" had been called everything from a "performing flea" to a "Nazi stooge." His harmless, creaking upper-class voice, in its woolly muffler of static, speaking lightly and (as he hoped) inconsequentially, had outraged a nation for one reason: Wodehouse was broadcasting from Hitler's Berlin.

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