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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

In World War II, for Wodehouse, it was libraries:

George Orwell, "In Defense of P. G. Wodehouse"

I'd not realised that part of his "career", but I've always imagined him to be more like some of the naive and idiotic characters in his books, like you know, writing from experience.

I shall try to analyse the mental atmosphere of those books in a moment, but it is important to realise that the events of 1941 do not convict Wodehouse of anything worse than stupidity. The really interesting question is how and why he could be so stupid.

While I'd be on Orwell's side (a Communist that became a socialist due to Spanish Civil War, see Animal Farm), the current rewrite has quite different motives to the 1940s library banning.

Thanks for the link. Oh, and there was a Room 101 in the BBC...