Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime, in Helsinki, in Moscow, in Germany and Sweden and all around the world, most people knew that Finland's ordeal was over. The British-accented German radio propagandist, "Lord Haw-Haw," had been the first to say so, at 10:30 p.m. the night before. He had had word from Moscow that terms were finally struck between Finnish and Russian negotiators. Their final session in the Kremlin was joined by Dictator Joseph Stalin, who warmly commended Finland's Delegate Dr. Juho Paasikivi and said that if Dr. Paasikivi had continued as Finnish leader in the negotiations last...
Actually, Lord Haw-Haw is no better informed than any one of several other English speakers on the German radio. The difference is that he has been ridiculed to fame. The Daily Express's Jonah Barrington dubbed him Haw-Haw last September. BBC comics lost no time ribbing him in rhyme. He became a character in a revue, was impersonated at Mayfair affairs. Trying to figure out his real identity became a national British pastime. He was spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander...
Last week it appeared that all guesses were wild. Lord Haw-Haw, according to the latest (and only official) identification, was born in the U. S. As the latest story goes, the Sunday Pictorial last December interviewed a woman in the tiny village of Waldron, Sussex. She was sure Lord Haw-Haw was her ex-husband, William Joyce. To make doubly sure, she tuned him in one night when her small daughters were in the room. The eldest child paled. "That's W. J., isn't it?" she asked...
...Haw-Haw was, indeed, W. J., his was a once-familiar voice in Britain. Though Joyce was born in the U. S., of an Irish father and a Yorkshire mother, he was taken to England as a boy. He went to London University, was a star language student, tutored for some years, took up with Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries...
...effective way to de-monocle Lord Haw-Haw for his British following would be to make him out a foreign-born, low-degree scamp like Joyce. Last week British officials, presumably after investigation of their own, assured the press that Joyce was, indeed, the man. At week's end His Lordship had not acknowledged the identification...