Indeed, Wodehouse's Spode is a creation of genius. I too once very briefly met Sir Oswald. Cambridge Union Society president in about 1953, the late Nicholas Tomalin invited me to be a teller in a debate to which he had somewhat controversially invited Mosley to speak; so I got to be intro'd to him before proceedings began. That is a moment that has remained in my mind likewise; tho not, I suspect, in his for as long as he went on going on! ≈M≈
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