Foreign News: Renegade Unmasked

One evening in April 1939 Britons fiddling with their radio dials were startled to hear an anonymous British voice speaking over German airwaves. Said he, in clipped Oxonian accents: "To some I may seem a traitor—but hear me out. . . ."

For a long time after that, old Michael Joyce of Dulwich Common, London refused to admit that Lord Haw-Haw was his son. He would not listen to Haw-Haw's voice on the air.

When two other sons, Quentin, a clerk in the Air Ministry, and Frank, a technician for the British Broadcasting Corp., were...

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