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Momentarily overshadowed by the doom-clappers were the day-to-day, irritating small fry, Lords Haw-Haw and Hee-Haw, Lady Hee-Hee, Schmidt & Smith, Fritz & Fred. But not for long. With the invasion of the Low Countries a fact, the propagandists blared with renewed vigor. England's BBC continued its dry, unemotional, institutional adver-"ising of the Allied cause; Germany, trying hard to sell the righteousness of its aims to neutral listeners, found a man for American-language broadcasts, a pitchman-voiced commentator who called himself E. D. Ward...
...Berlin specializes in skits such as Schmidt & Smith, wherein Smith, a gouty Englishman, played by Lord Haw-Haw, who drops his baritone voice to basso range for the part, is forever getting bested by calm, confident German Schmidt...
...Fisher" says to Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald: "We are very pleased with the way things are going. Vickers' shares are up 20%." MacDonald: "Incidentally, 20% of the niggers died on the way across. What a droll coincidence!" Working overtime last week was Germany's English broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw, tentatively identified as William Joyce, Anglo-American-Irish fascist (TIME, March 11). CBS listeners picked up a typical Haw -Haw news bulletin following the Scandinavian invasion (see p. 19): "The New York paper, Evening Star,* writes: that it is learned that British troop ships with several divisions aboard have...
...American Actor Ben Lyon taught voluptuous, blonde Edna Powell the orthodox Minsky technique for her tease in Haw Haw, playing at the Holborn Empire...
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...