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...founding brains of this tremendous machine, according to Riess, were Walther Nicolai, Ludendorff, Goebbels, Himmler, and above all Rudolf Hess, "the only really great adventurer of the Nazi Party." It grew out of Nicolai's conversations with Ludendorff on the nature of total action; out of Goebbels' and Himmler's intelligent respect for the methods of Lenin (the Gestapo was "a complete plagiarism of the OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage...
...Hess developed his Liaison Staff, an organization whose three basic principles, in utter departure from previous Occidental practice, were: "Everyone can spy. Everyone must spy. Everything can be found...
...first time since the flurry over Rudolf Hess's arrival in Scotland, Winston Churchill referred last week to Britain's most distinguished uninvited guest. He did not answer any questions as to Hess's mission; instead he used the flyaway Nazi to nail home for British listeners the point that there had been a great improvement in the Battle of the Atlantic...
...various remarks Deputy Führer Hess has let fall from time to time during his sojourn in our midst," the Prime Minister told Parliament, "nothing has been more clear than that Hitler relied upon a starvation attack even more than upon invasion to bring us to our knees. ... So far as 1941 is concerned, these hopes at least have been dashed to the ground. . . ." There were figures, good solid figures, to substantiate this contention. Apparently the grim months when losses went so high that the Admiralty was frightened into silence-and when starvation seemed a real fear-were over...
...right amount and mixture of facts, figures, and opinions on which to make his representative characters speak and move about. He is particularly good on such important personalities as Vargas, Comacho, Batista, and de la Tarremen who may turn out to be more important to us than Hess or Beaverbrook or Petain...