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Details. Hess wears civilian clothes, lives in a room 20 ft. by 20 ft. in a wing of a former lunatic asylum. Outside his windows is a spacious lawn and flower beds along the building; they are bright now with the season's last roses and first asters and chrysanthemums. Oaks, elms and beeches surround the grounds. The view reaches to lavender hills...
...Jews who found asylum in Soviet Russia-1,800,000; in other countries...
...rumors that Mussolini and members of his Fascist gang may attempt to take refuge in neutral territory. One day Hitler and his gang and Tojo and his gang will be trying to escape from their countries. I find it difficult to believe that any neutral country would give asylum to or extend protection to any of them. I can only say that the Government of the United States would regard the action.... as inconsistent with the principles for which the United Nations are fighting and that the United States Government hopes that no neutral government will permit its territory...
Benito Mussolini was under arrest and not under arrest; in solitary confinement and under house guard; seized while trying to flee Italy and seized in the Quirinal; held for his own safety and held for delivery to the Allies. If he dreamed of asylum somewhere abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt's warning to neutrals against such asylum shattered the dream...
Presumably because of the libel laws, Cross confines his harsher remarks about the House of Commons to anonymities. He noted: "One man who is alleged to have a discharge from an insane asylum, an M.P. who was tossed out of the Press Gallery for drunkenness, a fellow who once belonged to the Nazi party for some reason or other, and . . . the M.P. who is indebted to the Japanese for campaign funds...