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There was reason to worry: to the White House went many a New Deal Senator, to complain that Henderson refused to consider their patronage demands. The whole Senate stewed-90,000 jobs, and not a plum for them...
...much his posh rooms at the Adlon, if you know what I mean, though they're in ghastly taste," mused Bertie. "After all, Plum has oceans of the stuff...
...True, Bertie," bleated the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, hitting the nail with unaccustomed vigor. "But Bertie, I mean to say, what is one to make of the nauseating news that Swedish journalist fellow just dished up, that Plum has signed on the jolly old dotted with a Nazi film company for two pictures, and that that frightful cad Hitler is giving him special 'courtesy marks' for good behavior? Well, what I mean to say is-fun's fun, but dash it all -." The Hon. Freddie collapsed into bewildered silence...
...That won't wash," said Bertie firmly. "Why, it wasn't so long ago that my man Jeeves was reading me some fearful tripe Plum seemed to have written in some transatlantic mag-Saturday Afternoon Post, was it? Some such name. Well, anyhow, some ghastly nonsense about Fascism not mattering as long as it lets one live in comfort. Y'know, sometimes," said Bertie, hitching his R.A.F. uniform to ease the Wooster rump into a more comfortable posture, "sometimes I think Old Plum is getting a bit overripe. An aunt of mine...
This time Basil was ruthless. He got into the Ministry of Information and offered to betray "some very dangerous Communists" he knew, such as "the woman Green." Crooked Colonel Plum made him a second lieutenant ("There's a lot to be said for a uniform . ... best possible disguise for a man of intelligence") and said, "Catch a Fascist for me and I'll think about making you a Captain of Marines." Ambrose's magazine and Poppet's Marxed-up reflex to it furnished Basil with his Fascist. His betrayal of Ambrose is a piece of murderous...