If there was free speech in England in 1940s, why was Lord Haw Haw hanged for broadcasting radio propaganda for Germany, when listeners could make up

their own mind what to make of it, and Oswald Moseley's Fascists stopped by left wingers from riding horses through a Jewish area of London?

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JoeXP · 56-60, M

He was hanged under the provisions of the 1351 Treason Act which made it treason to anyone who ‘soit aherdant as enemys nostre Seigneur le Roi en le Roialme, donant a eux eid ou confort en son Roialme ou par aillours’. I don’t think there was any doubt he was giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the king and the fact that the act says ‘in his (the king’s) realm or elsewhere’ means the fact that he was in Germany didn’t matter.