92.15.12.165 (talk) 19:17, 4 July 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply], The TV series Spode can not in my opinion be described as Hitleresque, but rather "Mussolini-esque". Jeffrey Tucker is a former Director of Content for the Foundation for Economic Education. In 1946, when the new Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, was asked in the House of Commons whether Wodehouse would be tried for treason, he answered that the question would be addressed if and when the writer returned to England. But many English people heard that they happened. He admitted as much himself, writing in May 1945: "I made an ass of myself and must pay the penalty." In one of Woosters most anxious moments in the novel, Jeeves offers him instruction on the hem of his trousers: The trousers perhaps a quarter of an inch higher, sir. Roderick Spode - Wikipedia But we should be proud to stand alongside them when it comes to the really important stuff. But the idea was now up for debate. Camp was really great fun, the English comic novelist P.G.Wodehouse wrote to an old school friend. The discussion of these antagonisms must therefore necessarily prove fruitless Nothing is more absurd than this belief Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. I had described Roderick Spode to the butler as a man with an eye that could open an oyster at sixty paces, and it was an eye of this nature that he was directing at me now, Wooster narrates. P.G. Wodehouse Knew The Right Way: Fight Fascism With Humor True defenders of liberty. Forget about the authors wartime mistakes, the way Bertie tackles Mosley-esque thug Roderick Spode is a great lesson in sending up would-be despots. They are still engaged at the end of the novel. He and his adherents wear black shorts. Footer bags, you mean? Yes. How perfectly foul., It was a silver cow. [12], In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, which takes place at Totleigh Towers, Spode is as protective of Madeline as ever and threatens to break Bertie's neck when he thinks that he has caused Madeline to cry (she was shedding a tear because she thought Bertie was lovesick and could not stay away from her). Wodehouse was four months shy. His general idea, if he doesnt get knocked on the head with a bottle in one of the frequent brawls in which he and his followers indulge, is to make himself a Dictator. Well, Im blowed! I was astounded at my keenness of perception. My first encounter with Wodehouse was as a teen-ager, as my hard-of-hearing father stood two feet away from the television, the volume turned up to maximum. You will recall how my Aunt Agathas McIntosh niffed to heaven while enjoying my hospitality. Like Mosley, Spode inherited a title upon the death of a relative; unlike Mosley, who inherited his baronetcy in 1928 (which entitled him to be called Sir) before forming his fascist group, Spode did not inherit his earldom (which made him Lord Sidcup) until after forming his group. He wrote to a friend that it was a loony thing to do.. The former bank clerk went on to write more than seventy novels and dozens of plays. Bertie only finds out about that later when Dahlia tells him about it and how she solved the problem by discovering the cosh Bertie dropped by the safe. Like Mosley, Spode inherited a title upon the death of a relative; unlike Mosley, who inherited his baronetcy in 1928 (which entitled him to be called Sir) before forming his fascist group, Spode did not inherit his earldom (which made him Lord Sidcup) until after forming his group.
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