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...last eight years, W.S.S.F. has distributed to needy students abroad over one-million dollars worth of food, books and clothing and haw moved it through relief committees in Finland, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, and France to name only...
...British Union of Fascists. Like Joyce, Margot had a falling out with Sir Oswald, and when Joyce departed for Germany a few days before war broke out, she sailed with him to become his second wife. His first, a Glaswegian, later identified Joyce as Hitler's Haw Haw. Margot became Lady Haw Haw...
...last week the voice of Lady Haw Haw was heard again. In a British prison camp in Germany reserved for violent Nazis, visiting British M.P. Beverly Baxter heard a woman scream: ''You murdered my husband, but you won't murder me!" Turning, he recognized the still beautiful face of Margot Joyce. The accent was no longer so refined...
That was something for Albert ("Yungg Alber") Pierrepoint to ponder, when he joined his uncle Thomas as Britain's second Senior Hangman. He too had all the makings of an expert executioner-his job on "Lord Haw-Haw" had been first rate; but "Yungg Alber" was a ripe 37, had recently been married, and a hangman's income was inadequate. They did not hang many chaps in Britain...
Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, 39, played chess with a warder till midnight, then went to bed in his Wandsworth cell. Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 37, made things snug for his first solo job since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...