“HAW-HAW’S” FATHER.
MR MICHAEL JOYCE DEAD.
LONDON, February 23
Mr Michael Joyce, father of Germany’s notorious broadcaster On English programmes, William Joyce, internationally known as “Lord Haw Haw,” died,in London from heart disease. It is stated that although reluctant to discuss his son’s pro-Nazi broadcasts, he was known to have been bitterly opposed to them, considering them a slur on the family name. William Joyce fled to Germany before the war, and since the outbreak has constantly delivered anti-British broadcasts. Mi 4 Michael Joyce was one of the earliest “blitz” victims in London. Duririg -i&b: first; big night raid in September. a bomb fell near his home at Dulwich Cdirimon, forcing his family to leave their house. They moved to East Dulwich, where Mr Joyce died. He and his wife were both from the West of Ireland.
The “Sunday Pictorial” devotes the whole of its front page to the story, under the heading in poster-size type: “Haw Haw Killed His Father.” It declares that Mr Michael Joyce died of a broken heart.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 146, 2 April 1941, Page 6
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