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(More customer reviews)footnote 45 on pp. 392-3 should read; "The Times, 9 August 1943. By 1945 Gordon-Canning has disappeared from Who's Who. I am told that he helped to defray the legal costs involved in the defence of William Joyce for treason in 1945, and he achieved notoriety for purchasing a bust of Hitler at the sale of contents of the German Embassy. This was to be used in Kingdom House in connection with the worship of Hitler, and he told a reporter after the sale that, like Christ, Hitler would come into his own again. See the New York Times, 28 November 1945. Prince Henry joined the British Army as soon as his Detention Order was revoked, and in due course was granted a commision. He must have been cleared of all suspicion, as in 1947 he was granted British nationality.
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During the Second World War just under two thousand British citizens were detained without charge, trial, or term set, under Regulation 18B of the wartime Defence Regulations. Most of these detentions took place in the summer of 1940, soon after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister--when belief in the existence of a dangerous Fifth Column was widespread. At first, Churchill was an enthusiast for vigorous use of the powers of executive detention. He later came to lament the use of a power which was, in his words, "in the highest degree odious." Although many detainees were soon released, a considerable number remained in custody for prolonged periods--some for the duration of the war. This book provides the first comprehensive study of this Regulation and its history. Based on extensive use of primary sources, it describes the complex history of wartime executive detention: the purposes which it served, the administrative procedures and safeguards employed, the conflicts which surrounded its use, and the effect of detention upon the lives of individuals concerned, few of whom constituted any threat to national security.
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