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The creeps and bullies who persecuted Wodehouse are with us today

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From: The Spectator
Date: 19990925
Author:Johnson, Boris

If anyone thinks P.G. Wodehouse was a Nazi collaborator or, as the Independent described him last Friday, 'a sinister character with extreme right-wing views and even Nazi sympathies', then that is a comment on the catastrophic illiteracy of the age. There can scarcely have been a more devastating portrait of a fascist than in Wodehouse's Code of the Woosters. You will recall the figure of Spode, the would-be dictator, whose eye could open an oyster at 50 paces, and whose followers went around in black shorts (`You mean footer bags?' cried Bertie. `How perfectly foul').

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