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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Lord Haw-Haw
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Nickname given to William Joyce (1906–46) because of the plummy *Oxford accent in which he broadcast Nazi propaganda from Germany to the UK during World War II (he began each programme with 'Jairminny calling, Jairminny calling'). The name was coined in the first month of the war by Jonah Barrington, in the Daily Express, to describe another German propagandist (Joyce was not as yet on the air). But it was to Joyce that it soon stuck.
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He was hanged by the British for treason, although he was an American citizen of Irish descent. He was judged to owe allegiance to Britain, an essential condition of treason, because he had lived in the country for much of his adult life (he formed the National Socialist League in London in the 1930s) and because he had an unexpired British passport, which he had obtained by illegally declaring himself a British subject.
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