Lord Haw-Haw and William Joyce -- The Full Story PDF
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LORD HAW-HAW by the same author * Fiction COME DUNGEON DARK THIS HAPPY BREED A STRANGER MYSELF TO MAKE US GLAD NOBODY GOT INTO TROUBLE Non-Fiction JUST BACK FROM GERMANY MY HOST MICHEL William Joyce as his pre-war audiences saw him-aggressively untidy in trench coat and muffler, carrying a heavy stick. the tough. scarred features relieved by an underlying humour LORD HAW-HAW J - and William oyce The Full Story -------_.*-------- by J. A. COLE FABER AND FABER 24Russell Square London Firstpublishedinmcmlxiv byFaber andFaber Limited 24Russell Square London W.G.l Printedin GreatBritainby Lazimer Trend& Go Ltd Plymouth Allrights reserved ©J.A. Gole 1964 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS • Forsomeofthe information essentialto an account of William Joyce'slifeI amindebtedto Mrs. MargaretJoyceand Mr. John Macnab. They were aware that I never shared WilliamJoyce's views orsympathizedwith his activities,butapart from assuring themselvesthat I intendedto write aseriousbookonJoyce,they madenoattempttoinfluencemein the treatmentofthe material they made available. Miss Marjorie Daunt, Professor Wiliiam Matthews ofthe University of California, and the Registrar of BirkbeckCollegekindly assistedme with accounts ofhisstudent days.ForpermissiontousetheBritishBroadcastingCorporation's monitoring and audience research reports I.thank Mr. Roland Fox, the Corporation's Director of Publicity, and Mr. R. J. Silvey, the Head of Audience Research, whose staffs gave me willing assistance, as did those of the BBC library and sound archives. The Foreign Officeand the Civil ServiceCommission werehelpful in answering my inquiries. Itwill be obviousto the reader that I havealsoreceivedmuch informationfrom German sources. These prefer not to be men tioned,but I wish to thank them. J.A. CoLE 7 CONTENTS -----------,*----------- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page 7 FOREWORD 13 I. THE MERRY JOYCES 17 2. THE SCAR 26 3. THE FATAL PASSPORT 37 4. 'WHENCE CAME YOU?' 49 S. SPILT CHAMPAGNE SS 6. QUIET WEDDING 65 7. STEER STRAIGHT 72 8. LET FATE DECIDE 82 9. THE DRINK WAS GOOD 93 10. JOB-HUNTING IN BERLIN 101 11. THE BIRTH OF LORD HAW-HAW 110 12. HONEST INJUN! 120 13. THEY SPOKE WITH ONE VOICE 132 14. THE SECRET STATIONS 135 IS. TWILIGHT OVER ENGLAND 140 16. A SMASH HIT 148 17. JOKE OVER 154 18. No PASSPORTS FOR SPIES 159 19. FAUST TO MEPHISTOPHELES 170 20. A LETTER TO JOYCE 179 21. DIVORCE 185 22. THE YELLOW STAR 197 23. THE RED ROSE 204 9 Contents 24. 'THE HANGING JUDGE' page 215 25. GOEBBELS TRIES TO SAVE JOYCE 223 26. HAW-HAW'S FAREWELL 228 27. RUSSIAN ROULETTE 236 28. 'GOD BLESS OLD ENGLAND' 250 29. SOMETHING IN THE CITY 257 30. 'THEY HAVE ME TAPED' 269 31. BUSINESS AS USUAL 280 32. CLOSE OF PLAY 287 33. THE POPULAR HAW-HAW SHOW 305 BIBLIOGRAPHY 308 INDEX 310 10
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