Broadcast for the Nazis
MOTHER AND SON CHARGED LONDON, Nov. 9. Alleged admissions by a woman and her son that they had broadcast Tor the Nazis to get money to support themselves were read at the Bow Street Court today. Mrs. Frances Dorothy Eckersley, aged 51, and her soa by a former marriage, James Roystoa Clark, aged 22, were charged with conspiracy to aid the enemy. Mrs. Eckersley’s alleged statement said that before the war she was a member of the Imperial Fascist League and was in Germany at the outbreak of the war. She decided to remain, but soon spent all her money and accepted a job on the German radio announcing titles for musical numbers on the transmission to England. An alleged statement was also read from Clark, stating that after he unsuccessfully sought other employment, a Gestapo official, who was closely associated with William Joyce, engaged him as a news reader at a salary of 100 Reichmarks a week. “I appreciated that my broadcasts were entirely anti-British," the statement said, “but at that time I had no objection to this as I was still in an hysterical state of mind which had been fostered by the Nazis." Both the accused were remanded to Wednesday prior to committal to the Old Bailey.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5
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214Broadcast for the Nazis Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5
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