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...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
...year 1940 found the man, as well as the man the year. It found him speaking, not only as a Briton, but as an American, taking his words from Oscar Hammerstein and Edna Ferber: "These two great organizations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. No one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along...
...assessed rental* value of the property; 3) business assets, plant and machinery will bear a compulsory premium of 1½% of their value; 4) churches and chapels will be insured free, the Treasury paying all premiums. In addition, the War Damage Bill provides that any Briton may voluntarily insure under the scheme one motorcar worth up to $2,000 and additional personal property worth up to $6,000 upon payment of a premium...
Your notes on the Irish ports desired by Britain [TIME, Nov. 18] and your curious reference to Mr. de Valera's conscience are based on a misreading of the Irish situation. You say Mr. de Valera in refusing the ports is handcuffed by his Briton-hating colleagues. One could hardly accuse the Irish Times of being Briton-hating and yet this paper, consistently friendly to Britain, speaking specifically of the debate on the Irish ports in the British House of Commons, deprecated "the loose talk concerning Ireland which occasionally creeps into the proceedings of the British Parliament," and adds...
...Prime Minister de Valera of Eire was handcuffed last week, if not by the "Irish underworld" then just as securely by his Briton-hating Eire political colleagues. He replied to Mr. Churchill...