Wodehouse in Prison
Sirs:
Is there any possible way I could send a letter to Mr. P. G. Wodehouse?
Before his capture, I enjoyed a very pleasant correspondence with Mr. Wodehouse. In his last letter, written to me, which was mailed shortly before the Germans seized him, Mr. Wodehouse informed me that he was sure the Germans would not penetrate Le Touquet. . . .
E. W. FLACCUS
Tucson, Ariz.
> Author Wodehouse is in prison at Tost, Upper Silesia, and mail should reach him if addressed to: Gefangenennummer: 796 Lager-Bezeichnung: Offag VIII D Deutschland (Allemagne).
Last January TIME'S Berlin correspondent, accompanied by German officials, visited Wodehouse in prison, took him pipe tobacco, a pipe, cigarets, candy, soap, mystery books. They found him well fed ("bloated" was his word), having received Red Cross parcels and cheese, butter and jam from Denmark. He had "a sort of private room" in a house at one end of the camp where he was writing a serial for the Saturday Evening Post which he has tentatively titled Money in the Bank. His main worry was that he had not paid his U.S. income taxes. When he was told that Ernest Hemingway had a new book out about the Spanish Civil War, he observed scornfully: "I can't imagine a duller subject."—ED.
For One, Tired
Sirs:
For one, I'm getting tired of the incessant call for "leadership." We're just like any other people in the world. When we deserve something, we get it. Remember the frogs? Not the French, though the cases are somewhat parallel, but the frogs who turned from King Log to King Stork. It seems to me that leaders are much like wives. Sometimes you get a good one and sometimes you don't. Germany has the kind of leadership she wants. So have we (God help us). England had the kind she wanted in Chamberlain and now she has what she wants in Churchill. The people, not the times, are pregnant and produce their man. The times simply perform the male function. . . .
LAMBERT FAIRCHILD New York City
TIME to Camp
Sirs:
Just a word of appreciation for the publication of Mrs. Louise Redfield Peattie's appeal [to TIME subscribers to send their copies, after reading them, to Army camps] which has had a grand and rapid response here at Fort Dix. The soldiers appreciate especially the fact that they are getting current editions. . . .
GEORGE J. CRONE
Chaplain, Major
44th Division tort Dix, NJ.
Sirs:
I would like you to send two subscriptions (or four six-month ones) to an Army camp for me—whichever one you think, because of its location, offers its men least opportunity for outside recreation.
My own son, ensign on the U.S.S. California, has been kept in touch with the world by TIME ever since he became a V-7 last July.
Check for $10.00 enclosed.
MRS. C. H. HARING
Cambridge, Mass.
— TIME thanks Mrs. Haring for her donation, has sent two one-year subscriptions to Fort Lewis, Wash., whence word from the commanding officer about the demand for TIME prompted Mrs. Peattie's letter.—ED.
Abstract, Glittering
Sirs: