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...such light about the head of Dr. May's pit-mate. "Not guilty," pled the scar-faced prisoner on trial for his life in London's Central Criminal Court. The little man who, in his self-conscious spruceness looked like a somewhat comic gangster, was Lord Haw Haw - William Joyce - the British Fascist who, during World War II, had nightly tried to sap his countrymen's will to survive by broadcasting defeatist propaganda from Germany...
...profit. But not enough to support Ibstone House. Since her husband has lost most of his fortune, Rebecca West must still write for a living. The U.S. market pays her top rates for practically anything she cares to write, and she writes at top speed. Her report on Lord Haw Haw's trial, some 6,500 words, was in the New Yorker's office 24 hours after the trial ended, and almost no editing had to be done on it. Says grateful New Yorker Editor Harold Ross: "It was the quickest piece of journalism I've seen...
...Boston's Federal District Court last week a gaunt, haughty, thin-lipped man stood up to hear his sentence. He was Douglas Chandler, onetime newspaper reporter, American Lord Haw Haw, convicted as a common traitor (TIME, July 7). The judge gave him one more chance to speak...
...Then, to an obbligato of fifes and clopping hoofs, the Berlin radio introduced him to its U.S. audience as "Paul Revere." During four years of war, Chandler's cultivated American voice spewed forth the propaganda line of Joseph Goebbels. He was known as America's Lord Haw-Haw. He was captured in 1945, brought home to stand trial...
...nose, and four or five books flying from hand to hand. When not so occupied, he would shatter the institution's leathern hush by bawling: "Say, did you hear about the man who dreamed he was eating Shredded Wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone? HAW! HAW! HAW...