SMOOTH TRAITOR

Evening Star, Issue 23907, 10 June 1941, Page 6

SMOOTH TRAITOR

HAW HAW REVELATIONS [From Our London Correspondent.] Some startling facts have now come to light about William Joyce, the smooth-tongued traitor whose broadcasts on the German radio have gained him the derisive nickname of Lord Haw Haw. It . seems he was the head of an extensive spy organisation with its headquarters in London and 300 agents in various parts of the country. Joyce was in close touch all the while with the German Embassy staff in London, and an elaborate coda was employed by his emissaries, each of whom had as secret designation an alphabetical letter. The whole espionage web was revealed last November, when two people, the daughter of a Russian admiral and a clerk in the United States Embassy, were sentenced under the Official Secrets Act. Joyce himself left for Germany, his financial if not his spiritual home, before the war started. The rendezvous for Joyce and his German Embassy associates was the Mayfair house of an Italian lady of title. These spy machinations were in full swing for years. A question often asked, by the way, is what will happen to Haw Haw if and when wc win this war.