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...internment camps. Wodehouse finally surfaced some six months later in a series of broadcasts he made over German radio to the then-neutral United States. The British people were shocked at hearing his voice over the airwaves of their enemy and began lashing out at Wodehouse, calling him a traitor...
...home in body bags. And, after the war, Wodehouse himself publicly apologized for the broadcasts, saying they were the greatest blunders of his life. But if these broadcasts revealed Wodehouse as not very adept at foreseeing the consequences of his actions, they certainly do not reveal him as a traitor against England...
...book is certainly no masterpiece; it is somewhat sloppily written, repetitive, and in its structure often resembles an Expository Writing position paper. But it is painstakingly researched--offering numerous documents and quotes from sources Sproat has interviewed--and it makes its point. Wodehouse, it seems clear, was no traitor, Perhaps this book will finally lift that title from his name...
With the capture of Washington-he was, poor chap, taken to London and hanged as a traitor-the rebellion collapsed, and no one else had the stature or the stomach to start it up again. That ancient rogue Benjamin Franklin, who had persuaded King Louis XVI to bankrupt his treasury in the rebel cause, was content to remain in Paris, for instance, chasing young ladies and flying kites in thunderstorms. Thomas Jefferson, the greatest propagandist of the age, also sought refuge in Europe, where he lived with his beautiful black mistress and continued his mischief-making for another 43 years...
Prince Hamlet thought Uncle a traitor...