Do you pick up the broadcasts from Zeezen, I think—of "Lord Haw-Haw? He has become one of our most popular nightly turns. How he got the name "Lord Haw-Haw" I do not know. I think it was the tribute of some popular paper to the superjority of his "culchah," which of course is very different from "Kultur"
Every night he tells the world in faultless English, of the miserable state in which we are living in England, or of the unspeakable iniquities of the British, One popular revue has made a "Lord Haw-Haw" a prominent personage in its show.
But now a controversy has begun as to what sort of English he does speak. Miss Rose Macauley says it §s good but "surely not Cholmondeley out of Christ Church." She detects a Mancunian flavour. Several others agree that the accent is definitely northern. Some plump for the Midlands. Others are sure that Haw-Haw learnt his English in Edinburgh. Others warmly repudiate either pub-lie school or varsity origin, and say that Haw-Haw's accent is all his own and ought to be renamed Hee Haw.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.