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Through the years - in the old Book man, in Harper's and the New Yorker, U.S. readers have watched her feminine forays into the masculine world of journalism. Three months ago she reported Lord Haw-Haw's trial in a memorable piece for the New Yorker. Last week, in a 13-column essay in the same magazine, Reporter West covered the eight-minute trial of The Crown v. John Amery, traitor. Her piece showed up the run-of-the-mine court reporter as the deadline-hurried, space-confined newsman he generally...
...William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), 39; sentenced to death by hanging, awaiting action on his appeal at Wandsworth prison in London...
...whom he married, although he had left a wife in England. Paul Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine paid him $75 a month. Adolf Hitler bestowed on him the War Merit Cross, First Class. According to his own statement, he became a naturalized German citizen. The British nicknamed him "Lord Haw-Haw" and they laughed at him. But they never forgot his taunts at Britain...
...London's Chief Magistrate, Sir Bertrand Watson, it was Case No. 24 on his Bow Street Police Court docket. To Britons it was the first step in bringing to justice Britain's No. i traitor, William ("Lord Haw Haw of Hamburg") Joyce, 39. For the purpose, a British statute nearly six centuries old was dusted off. Joyce, charged the Court, "adhered to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm, to wit, in the German realm contrary to the Treason...
They heard him out. His broadcasts offered a certain comic relief from the dull BBC, and in the long run they only toughened the tough British spirit. A musical comedy was written around the Haw Haw theme and a mystery thriller was named...