During his later life reviewers and commentators were hard on Waugh, and he responded pugnaciously. When Nancy Spain
wrote rudely about him after a hostile encounter in June 1955, he sued for libel and was...
Occupation
Rebecca West
From 1945 to 1950, West was employed as a court reporter for the New Yorker.
Deakin, Motley F. Rebecca West. Twayne, 1980.
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The trials she covered ranged from that of William Joyce
(the fascist broadcaster of Irish descent popularly known...
politics
Natalie Clifford Barney
Abandoning her formerly held pacifist views, NCB
supported Mussolini
and the Fascists. In 1940 she presented Ezra Pound
with a radio and a letter praising Lord Ha Ha
's pro-Nazi broadcasts for their exceptionally far-sweeping...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Rebecca West
The book offers a detailed analysis of William Joyce
's and John Amery
's trials for high treason for their pro-Nazi broadcasts during the war.
Amery, son and brother of successful British politicians, had been...
Timeline
1946: William Joyce, born in New York of an Irish-American...
National or international item
1946
William Joyce
, born in New York of an Irish-American father and English mother, was hanged for treason on account of his pro-Nazi broadcasts during the war.
Dear, Ian C. B., and Michael Richard Daniell Foot, editors. The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr, and Laurie Clancy. “Running Experiments Off: An Interview”. Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, edited by William Rodney Allen, Mississippi University Press, 1988, pp. 46-56.
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1946: William Joyce, born in New York of an Irish-American...
National or international item
1946
William Joyce
, born in New York of an Irish-American father and English mother, was hanged for treason on account of his pro-Nazi broadcasts during the war.
Dear, Ian C. B., and Michael Richard Daniell Foot, editors. The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford University Press, 1995.
640
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr, and Laurie Clancy. “Running Experiments Off: An Interview”. Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, edited by William Rodney Allen, Mississippi University Press, 1988, pp. 46-56.