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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1960.
CRIME AGAINST THE STATE
NUMBER TWO: WILLIAM JOYCE
Was this dwarf really Lord Haw Haw?
ON that hot June morning in 1945 when they put him up
before the chief magistrate at Bow Street, we certainly were an unusually large crowd. Unusually large-and un- usually mixed. Scotland Yard moguls as well as traffic Social Best-selling novelists as well as reporters. cops. celebrities as well as anonymous plebs.
All drawn together by a common interest-whether occupational or otherwise in the accused. He made his entrance on the dot. As he first came into view, under the lee of a gigantic jailer, most of us blinked, then gave vent to an incredulous gasp.
Could this possibly be ho? Could this possibly be the mas terful and supercilious foe of whom We had formed an appropriate mental image? For-even discounting the contrast with the glant beside him-this was, to all intents, a dwarf.
But a malevolent and deler- mined and unflinching dwarf. You had only to glance at that maskitke countenance; that bil- ter and ruthless and Inflexible mouth; those cold pale eyes in which trained observers might occasionally detect the charac- teristic intermittent glint of paranola,
By Edgar Lustgarten
"William Joyce. ary you legally represented?"
NO ONE LESS
LA-DE-DAH
WILLIAM JOYCE........
...no nickname would have been loss suitablo than Lord Haw Haw, for rio man could have sounded loss offote and ta-de-dab."
BY THE WAY!
by Beachcomber
TOLE scientists are, aghast because they have falled to invent a machine which con play chess intelligently. **TITO trouble
#
that
of
machines tend to be mechanical," said a fast-rate Juokoams,
However, I bring good nowa. A machino which was fed n whale heap of words produced in poem. The lyric was unsigned, and five critics sakt It was obviously the wark of, ond of the" "odvanced" poats of today. By the time machines do alt our work for us, there will be a demand for machines to take the intolerabis burden of leisure fit our shoulders. that Haw Television and radio can play was no real dispute How had broadcast for the our games and sing our songs Germans,
and the prisoner did for us, but there is nothing to fill those deoary, intervals when not go into the witness box.
The succeive courts wore we are thrown back on our own entirely concerned with ar resources.
issue of pure law: Did How Do you mind?
How actually owe allegiance to RACE BETOSS the Thames at the King? For unless you owe A. Wallingford in water-lawa- alleglance, you cannot commit trensuz.
Passport
The defence brought over whelming ovidence to prove
mowers is the logical develop- ment of much that is happening today in the eporting world. It should bo followed by a cross-country contest for motor- wheelbarrows, Who will be the first giri to drive a traction engine along
unusually
rites
for
DAIL
that, despite his Lancashire mother and his Irish father and od lightrope? his own long continuous resi-A letter from a budgerigar deses in England, How How to many people write to the was technically an American black cat in one of the big citizen (being born in New London shops that the Post York after his father's naturall-Offee should consider special sation there).
those who corres- Everything thus turned upon pond with animals. Ono lady a British passport, which he had who wrote a long letter to a obtained by falsely representing budgerigar in Leytonstone himself as British and which grocer's shop was amazed to had remained valid till the July receive a reply. It said: "You of 1040. By that pawport dict probably mean well, but a flue the British Sovereign conter on time we birds are going to have her him protection for which we've got to learn to read. allegiance was owing in return? When you come to think of it Many days and much learning writing letters to birda * were expended on this question damned nonsense. Please lay before the Law Lords Anally off. By the way, you address and irrevocably
confirmed the me as Bill. Wiliam to you, if affirmative answer of the lower you please." courts, and — with the same breath sealed the prisoner's in passing doom.
Dritain's backing for leaders, confidence in victory, and consequent will to struggie
*300
"The people of Eagland will curse themselves for having pre- to haven of a British police court ferred ruin from Churchill
peace from Hitler! "British dock.
soldiers and themselves utterly I myself had gone that day at a loss to cope with the to Bow Street both for profes- German dive bombers and other slopal and for personal reasons, modern engines of scientific Professional, because I was sub- warfare." sequently to broadcast uny count of the proceedings.
Now was the real test, surely. We leaned forward, all ears.
"No, sir."
He stepped forward in brisk fashion, and smartly turned to face the bench. He brought his hands, palms inward, to his aides. squared his #light Two words only-not enough, shoulders, and slood there "Do you wish to put Motionless. His milltary bearing clashed Incon- he has said?"
his diminutive- stature and his civilian clothes.
gruously with
Doubts...
an
impeccable questions to the witness or what Personal, because, in an imper: Apprehension
"No, sir."
Two words only-not enough "It is proposed," went on the magistrale, to remand you for Have you any ob- week, Jection?"
Silently, he heard that the charge against him was high treason; that the Crown did nol
"I have no objection, slz," the propose to open their case today: prisoner replied, "but I would that they would only tender like to apply for legal ald." formal evidence of arreST,
Silently, he Ustened while that We knew
evidence was given by a chief
inspector from the Special
that we had captured the wrong man.
more than enough.
distinctive,
sonal conflict of masses and machines, Haw Haw and I had Joined battle on the radio an directly
and Intimately as mediaeval knights.
than
"German forces are destroying Britain's armament works, crip- pling her rallways, closing her harbours, smashing her convoys, to her soil at any moment." and invasion is expected to come
Indeed, I felt overwhelming thankfulness that it was I now reporting tits scrupulous im- Even after the strategic
rother peachment
he situation was transformed, and reporting my summary exccu- Haw Haw could no longer draw tion. For I cannot scrlously the same assistance from events, doubt that he would have he still exploited fuumu! αλλά gained and grasped that prehension to the full, opportunity had the Germans
Won,
"After the collapse of the Second Front," he would say in Branch, Silently, and without That was
There was, though, d vital dis- the early months of 1044, "the apparent awareness, he held the Then, and only then, we knew inction between us to be noted, whole of the British people whil to Nazi want to know what compensa- Intense and ceaseless gaze of all for certain. All of us had heard My crime-accountable
demonology was to metallic, the onlookers-many of whom, those
broadcast tion they can expect on the still rocking from that initial menacing tones too often for any for my own side against the scare of their sacrifices."
Germons. Haw Haw's crime- shock, remained half convinced doubt or misgiving to Unger. subject to British legal proof- And, "If Churchill respends Lord Haw How, who through was to broadcast for the to the Kremlin's demands for an out the war in his broadcasts German side against his own. Livasion of Europe, the result from the Relch had nightly
will be a catastrophic defeat for Haw Haw had stlpped quietly the British forces." threatened Britain with
out of Briloin
steady A nallan with less militant Fascist, \nervos might have fallen prey to Bercely anti-democratie by in Haw Haw-especially during the bom temperament and acquired dark days of isolation, when [conviction, his goal was Ger- there was ttle to sustain us many and his fixed intention to excepi falth. But the British play some active part in her sturdy upheld their great forthcoming bid for the domina- traditions. tion and Enslavement of the world.
des-
truction and defeat was now before, and is antic-put.on vi immediately
The chief Inspector finished his short teslimony, and waited. The magistrale addressed the rigid #gure of the prisoner with evoking a remote and stately courtesy.
British
tho
protection ut the Jaw from the relative the war,
A British Crossword Puzzle
24
AUR088
18
12
DOWN
4 big crowd
1 Container on a vehicle? No; 2 Accumulate
just the reverse! (0).
7À German rivert (4).
9 Condition
under
which
nationalised industries
operate (0),
10 Surpass (5).
11 The extent of a realm (4). 18 Famous Dumas trio (10).
10. The army of hot toddy (4),
18 Do those fond of this meat
show calf-love? (4).
10 Gilbertian boatmen (10).
22 Hcape and hoops at the
mine (4).
24.May' allor it (5),
20 An
attachment between
man and his ang (5),
20 Brain-wave, perhaps (4),
37 Quay worker (0).
་
(0).
3 Egotistical subject? (5).
the They paid Haw Haw compliment of listening to his ay was not actuated," he broadcasts-but, in general, out afterwards asserted, "by desire of curiosity or for sheer amuse- for guin, material or otherwise" ment. A few hearts may have —and, without reservation, ae beaten faster at his dlro pre- cept that statement.
("Tomorrow Hi pur- dictions
night poses were evil, but they were strong units of the German air not selfish; How Haw was not force will attack an important
port"); A calculating opportunist, but an south coust
Lew ideological fanatic.
minda, preoccupied with distant dear ones, may have taken alarm The Germans or, at any rate, at his unverifiable "news" {their shrowd and highly efficient ("Yesterday German sub- propaganda organisation-wore marines in the Atlantic wiped quick to realise How Haw's out 10 Brush
potentialities.
Sinister
Q
merchant craft and their escort vessels").
These, however, were casional exceptions,
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Haw Haw
utterly failed in his attempt to lower British morale and under-
He begon broadcasting to mine British resolve.
Britain in September 1930;
during that first cold, dreary, But, though he dalled, the and blacked-out winter more British public did not forget that |than half our population grow he had tried, and they nourished
familiar with his
Д volee, and for Haw Haw burlesques of his idiosyncratic detestation greater thaa Calling") they ever felt for Hiler
accent ("Jairmany
| formed a welcome addition to his gang.
many an English comic's stock- fin-trade.
poculiar
any
and
There, however aggressive and brutal, had not been disloyal; As the war spread so did the it was simply that their loyalty range of his activities, and the lay to a wicked cause. How Haw United States was included In in the popular British view
disloyal; he had
had been
4 Pawnbroker's female custo-his scope; ultimately he became fouled his own rat, he has
mors? (0).
(chief commentator of Germany's
augmented salary of 1,200 marks he had perfidiously changed his English service with on liten the hand that fed him, a month. His record reflects the colours just before the maten.
& Food one gets in tubes (8). 6 Fish, obviously not in a
nchool (4).
8 Nearly 2/3rds of a millo in
Russla (0),
12 Declares (8),
13 About six mothers
bird (5).
value Goebbels placed upon him. There was widespread anlis-
Not without good reason, How faction when our occupying
picked him up How had excellent claims to be troops
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get the considered the enemy chiest Germany three weeks oflor the full-time broadcaster of the war. and widespread expecta-
14 About 2.2 pounds in France wor.
(0)..
17 Yawning? (5).
a 15 Gone to the bod?, (9),
20 Blowering shrub (0).
21 A letter not In time to make
one proud (B),
23 Burden,(4). YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Acronut
His preciso diction
tion-and desire and hope- that he would suffer the traitor's and ordained punishment,
no nickname could have been
jainter Umbre were compelling; Neverthelaas-to the clomat less suitable for him than "Lord credit of our system-llo safe-
were punetill How Haw" for no man could quordlag ruloa have pounded lows eflete and in ously observed. Tegal aid was ¡de-dah.
granted, and Haw How was most ably and painstakingly defended talks were ingeniously through three patient heurings
"
1 Hamlet, 4 Zila Pitch, 7 Rarent, & Adorn, 19 Sole, 12 Lorgood, 10 Impot, 10 conceived and skilfully com- by separate tribunale--the Old Baat, 17 Itmo, 10 Reins, 20, Poelors, 21 Tide, 23 Clean, 24 Modena, 23 Or-der, 20 Lesle, Dowat 1 Hard-ship, a Maritime, pod; by their blend of fact Halley, the Court of Criminal
3 Ensa, 6 Indigent, & Carem, 'Oater, if Small-ale, 13 Lorry, Ja Easiness, 14 Siestage, 10 To ller, 23 Mon-a,
and dialoolk, of half truths. Appoil, the House of Lords. and downright lies, they were These hearings offered anty well desigfied to wonken' drama: to the layman. -- Thera-
Haw How was hanged. The British are far from being a bloodthirsty or intolerant people, but that day they rejoiced to see theoretical law and satural justice coincide.
NEXT WEEK
Roger Casement
COME sudden revelation of the
sense of responsibility and high standard of political intel- ligence among boys and girls must have encouraged the idea of giving them the vote at 16, What subtle form of electoral propaganda would be employed
10
secure the bongo-cha-cha vota? Perhaps a promise of cheaper flick-knives, or tree blcycle-choins for those who could pass a means test.
London Express Service).
FRENCH-RISTALI