"The preface is usually that part of a book which can most safely be omitted. It usually represents that efflorescent manifestation of egotism which an author, after working hard, cannot spare either himself or his readers. More often than not the readers spare themselves. When, however, the writer is a daily perpetrator of high treason, his introductory remarks may command from the English public that kind of awful veneration with which £5000 confessions are perused in the Sunday newspapers, quite frequently after the narrator has taken his last leap in the dark."
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Twilight over England (Internationaler Verlag, Berlin, 1940), preface.
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William Joyce
William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 - 3 January 1946) was an American-born propagandist for Nazi Germany during World War II, known as Lord Haw-Haw, whose English-language radio broadcasts began with the words Germany Calling. He was executed for treason by the British.
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