"THIS edition of the trial of William Joyce consists of a
verbatim record of the trial at the Central Criminal Court,
from the official shorthand notes, subject only to such editing
as is inevitable to make a verbatim record readable, and to
the condensation into narrative form of some of the less
important evidence. ..."
"One matter absolutely vital in the case was
Joyce's nationality. There was also a record of the birth
of William Joyce in New York in 1906, and it would be
the submission of the defence that if Joyce was born in
the United States he could not owe allegiance to the British
Crown..." -p17