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Fascist group in 1888 when Hitler
assumed power in Germany H,
became Sir OswaId's minister O.
propaganda" but broke with hin
four years later and organized hi.
own National Socialist League,
which was disbanded shortly befor,
Germany invaded Poland.
Joyce went to Germany on August
Is, 1889. Some reports said he tool
German citizenship, but this never
was confirmed. His broadcasts were
beamed to Britain. but attracted
many short wave listeners In thu
United States.
Born in New York.
In October, 1910, Preston Grover
Associated Press correspondent
cabled from Berlin an interview
with Joyce, which contained the
following quotes:
Il was born in New York in 1906
My fathers people had lived in
Ireland since the Norman conquest
l went to school in Ireland.
From my earliest days I was
taught to love England and her
empire. Patriotism was the highest
virtue l knew"
Joyce told Mr.. Grover that he
joined the British Fascists in 1923
when he was about II years old. and
saw a certain amount of street
fighting" against the Communists
He added that he joined Mosley' s
British Union of Fascists" in 1888
and instilled in it definite anti
Jewish policy.
AS Britain moved toward war, he
said. he prepared to leave. He said
he felt that if for perfect reasons
OF conscience, could not fight fol-
her England, l must give her up
forever"
Mr.. Grover said that joyce. who
was then using the German name
OF Froelich. was a ruddy-faced man.
decidedly short, perhaps S feet 4
inches tall, and tightly knit phys
ically.
Had Scar on Face.
Joyce was easily recognizable by a
severe scar on his face, the result OF
being slashed by a razor in a fight
with British Communists about 20
years ago.
Joyce was dubbed Lord Haw
Haw' by Jonah Darlington of the
London Daily Express because of
his exaggerated British accent. He
graduated with honors from London
University in 1927.
Arrogant and bombastic when Eu.
rope lay beneath the Nazi jackboot,
"Haw Haw" changed eventually to
pleading tone. He asserted that
Germany actually was fighting
Britain's battles against bolshevism.
His capture marks the beginning
OF the end for small group of radio
Quislings who became hangers-on
of the German Nazis and lent their
voices to Goebbels' propaganda. Six
OF those believed still at large in
Germany were indicted in the
United States in l943 for treason.
Other Traitors Listed.
Among these is Frederick Will
helm Kaltenbach of DUBUQUE
Iowa, whose voice was beamed to
the United States. He became
known as Lord Hee Haw" and fire.
quently was mistaken for the better
known Lord Haw Haw."
Other fugitives from American
indictments are Robert Henry Best
Douglas Chandler, Constance Drex-
ell, Max Oscar Otto Koischwitz and
Edward Leo Delaney. The Ameri-
can poet Ezra Pound. who broad
cast for Mussolini, was captured
several weeks ago In Italy.
Best, 49, was born in Sumter
s. c., educated at Wofford College
and the Columbia School Of Jour-
nalism and went to Vienna as a news
correspondent in 1928 His voice
was heard regularly in a guess
who" program over the Berlin radio
from April, 1912, to August, 1914
Chandler formerly was captain o1
the Cornell rowing team and was
a New York broker and Baltimore
newSpaperman. Prior to Pearl Har.
Dor, he spoke to the United States
under the name of Paul Revere"
The Drexel woman, q German.
born United States citizen, formerly
lived IN Roslindale, Mass, and Phila.
delphia. Stars and Stripes described
her as a "baggy-eyed, weasel-voiced
self styled writer and radio speaker.
Koischwitz was German-born ane
posed on the airways as "OK of Ber.
lin." He devoted most of his broad.
cast time to reading names of cap.
tured Americans in tantalizine
fashion aimed at sustaining listener
appeal. He was naturalized Amer.
lean who gave up professorship al
Hunter College to go to Berlin.
Delaney, of Olney, ILL.,. formerly
was an actor and film distributin:
agent. He lampooned Presiden1
Roosevelt over the Berlin radio.
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