William Joyce

William Joyce
British Ambassador to Germania
Details
Place of Birth	New York City , United States
Nationality	British
Role	Ambassador to Germania
Political Party	British Peoples Party - National Salvation
Ideology	National Socialism

William Brooke Joyce (born 24 April 1906) also known as Lord Haw Haw, is a British National Socialist, currently serving as the British Ambassador to Germania as an imposed exile by the British Peoples Party

In Game Decription

Ask him how he earned his scar, the one that runs from mouth to ear, and he'll tell you that it was a Jewish communist. Ask around, and you'll hear it was a disagreement with an Irish girl. But Joyce has always preferred a dignified story than an ignoble truth.

An early supporter of British fascism, William Joyce turned to Germany after a falling out with Mosley's BUF. During the war, he served as a radio host, an English-language advocate for the German regime, making him infamously known as the menacing Lord Haw Haw. After the war, he returned briefly to England as a champion of National Socialism. Such was his zeal that he even denounced John Beckett, founder of the British People's Party, for his long-buried Jewish heritage. He spent the next two decades in Germania as Britain's ambassador, exiled by a vengeful Old Guard.

For Joyce, his ascension after Sealion II is well-deserved compensation. But the title comes hanging upon strings. England's cruel fate is dictated in the backrooms of the Volkshalle. And whenever he speaks, though clothed with power's trappings, everyone knows for whom he's really speaking.

"Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling..."

Biography

Early Life

William Joyce was born on Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, New York, United States. His father was Michael Francis Joyce, an Irish Catholic from a family of tenant farmers in Ballinrobe, County Mayo, who had acquired U.S. citizenship in 1894. His mother was Gertrude Emily Brooke, who although born in Shaw and Crompton, Lancashire, was from a well-off Anglican Anglo-Irish family of physicians associated with County Roscommon.

A few years after William's birth, the family returned to Salthill, County Galway. Joyce attended Coláiste Iognáid, a Jesuit school in County Galway, from 1915 to 1921. His parents were unionist and hostile to Irish republicanism and his mother was a devout Protestant. There were tensions between her and her family because she married a Catholic.

During the Irish War of Independence, Joyce was recruited while still in his mid-teens by British Army captain Patrick William Keating to work as a courier for military intelligence personnel stationed in County Galway. He was also suspected by the Irish Republican Army of working as an informant for the Black and Tans, which could have gotten him killed.

On 14 November 1920, Catholic priest and republican sympathiser Michael Griffin was abducted and murdered by members of the Auxiliary Division, and Joyce was further suspected of being involved in his murder, though his involvement in the case was never proven.

Keating eventually arranged for Joyce to be enlisted into the Worcestershire Regiment, moving him out of harm's way in Ireland by transferring him to the Norton Barracks in England where the regiment was stationed. However, Joyce was discharged a few months later when it was discovered that he was underage.

Joyce remained in England and briefly attended King's College School, Wimbledon. His family followed him to England two years later. Joyce had relatives in Birkenhead, Cheshire, whom he visited on a few occasions. He then applied to Birkbeck College, London, where he entered the Officer Training Corps.

At Birkbeck, he obtained a first-class honours degree in English. After graduating he applied for a job in the Foreign Office, but was rejected and took a job as a teacher. Joyce developed an interest in fascism and worked with, but never joined, the British Fascists of Rotha Lintorn-Orman.

On 22 October 1924, while stewarding a meeting in support of Conservative Party candidate Jack Lazarus ahead of the 1924 general election, Joyce was attacked by communists and received a deep razor slash across his right cheek. It left a permanent scar which ran from the earlobe to the corner of the mouth. While Joyce often said that his attackers were Jewish, historian Colin Holmes claims that Joyce's first wife told him that "it wasn't a Jewish Communist who disfigured him .... He was knifed by an Irish woman"

Rising the ranks of Fascism

In 1932, Joyce joined the British Union of Fascists (BUF) under Sir Oswald Mosley and swiftly became a leading speaker, praised for the power of his oratory. The journalist and novelist Cecil Roberts described a speech given by Joyce:

Thin, pale, intense, he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man ... so terrifying in its dynamic force, so vituperative, so vitriolic.

In 1934, Joyce was promoted to be the BUF's Director of Propaganda, replacing Wilfred Risdon, and later appointed deputy leader. As well as being a gifted speaker, Joyce gained the reputation of a savage brawler. His violent rhetoric and willingness to physically confront anti-fascist elements head-on played no small part in further politically marginalising the BUF. After a bloody incident at a BUF rally in Olympia in 1934, Joyce spearheaded the group's policy shift from campaigning for economic revival through corporatism to a focus on antisemitism.

He was instrumental in changing the name of the BUF to "British Union of Fascists and National Socialists" in 1936 and stood as a party candidate in the 1937 elections to the London County Council. In 1936, Joyce lived for a year in Whitstable, where he owned a radio and electrical shop.

Between April 1934 and 1937, when Mosley sacked him, Joyce served as Area Administrative Officer for the BUF West Sussex division. He was supported in the role by Norah Elam as Sussex Women's Organiser, with her partner Dudley Elam, the son of an Irish nationalist, taking on the role of Sub-Branch Officer for Worthing.

Under this regime, West Sussex became a hub of fascist activity, ranging from hosting BUF summer camps to organising meetings and rallies, lunches, and events. Elam shared many speaking platforms with Joyce and worked on propaganda speeches for him. One particular sore point for Joyce was the Government of India Bill, passed in 1935, designed to give a measure of autonomy to India, allowing freedom and the development of limited self-government.

Joyce harboured a desire to become Viceroy of India should Mosley ever head a BUF government, and is recorded as describing the backers of the bill as "feeble" and "one loathsome, foetid, purulent, tumid mass of hypocrisy, hiding behind Jewish Dictators". However, these dreams were dashed soon after, as Joyce would be sacked from his paid position when Mosley drastically reduced the BUF staff shortly after the 1937 elections, after which Joyce promptly formed a breakaway organisation, the National Socialist League.

After Joyce's departure, the BUF turned its focus from antisemitism to activism, opposing a war with Nazi Germany. Although Joyce had been deputy leader of the party from 1933 and an effective fighter and orator, Mosley snubbed him in his autobiography and later denounced him as a traitor because of his wartime activities. Unlike Joyce, the Elams did not escape detention under Defence Regulation 18B; both were arrested on the same day as Mosley in May 1940.

After this, Joyce would become the person he was, a outspoken National Socialist.

With the outbreak of war soon looming, he would escape detention under Defence Regulation 18B by leaving to Germany with his wife. After some back and forth with Nazi officials, he would become a newsreader for the propaganda department. Despite bombings by the RAF, he preferred working in Germania(then Berlin) and made broadcasts to listeners in Britain. This led to him being known as the infamous Lord Haw Haw.

With the invasion of Ireland and subsequently Operation Sealion, the once mighty British Empire collapsed, with the surrender of the British Forces and a hastily organised evacuation from Scotland by Allied Remnants.

Joyce would return in triumph, having been proven correct in his beliefs. Due to his staunch advocacy of National Socialism, he would denouce BPP founder John Beckett for having a Jewish-born mother, ending Beckett's political career. This action would result in Joyce being outcasted from the rest of the BPP and collaborators. Hoping to get rid of a troublesome person, he would be 'exiled' to Germania as the British Ambassador, an act enacted by the vengeful Old Guard Faction.

Current Situation

As of 1962, Joyce still serves as the British ambassador to Germania.

A German Victory in the 1964 Channel Crisis leads to Sealion II with Joyce being installed as the Lord Protector of Britain in its aftermath, of course acting in accordance with the strings behind him :

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