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...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, succeeding Harold Wilson; 49; handsome, suave lawyer; Dulwich College (in London), London School of Economics, University of Geneva; started electioneering for the Labor Party at 16; called to the bar in 1925; senior law lecturer, Liverpool University, 1927-34; served on government commissions (coal-mining inquiry, air-raid defense, etc.); chief British prosecutor at the Nurnberg trials; elected to Parliament, 1945; Attorney General...
...Wodehouse, you said the other day that you were 'quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling about this war'? Do you know Dulwich, Mr. Wodehouse? It is the suburb of London where you went to school. . . . After a bombing near me, under 50 tons of rubble, lay human beings. . . . You should have been there, Mr. Wodehouse, you with your impartiality, your reasonableness, and perhaps even one of your famous little jokes...
...long time after that, old Michael Joyce of Dulwich Common, London refused to admit that Lord Haw-Haw was his son. He would not listen to Haw-Haw's voice...
When two other sons, Quentin, a clerk in the Air Ministry, and Frank, a technician for the British Broadcasting Corp., were arrested and interned, their father shook his head helplessly. When the first big flight of Nazi bombers roared over London one night last September, a bomb crashed on Dulwich Common, blasted the home in which white-haired Michael Joyce lived with his wife and two youngest children. Ailing, he moved into another small, red-painted brick house in nearby East Dulwich. There, last fortnight, Michael Joyce died...
...Secretary & Hon. Organizer National Peace Declaration East Dulwich, England Up to last week more than 6,000,000 votes had been cast in Britain's Peace Poll. Results thus far tabulated...