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...crises both countries act instinctively toward the same end. Last week was a crisis week in World War II, and at week's end both Britain and the U.S. appeared to have made their decision. In London, where it was announced that Winston Churchill would report on Rudolf Hess at the next session of the House of Commons, it was hinted that he would go further and rule out peace once more and for all. And in Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the first U.S. statement of peace aims. One sentence alone ("Extreme nationalism must not again...
There are eminently creditable reports that Hess was in Spain shortly before his hop to Scotland, possibly talking peace to deal-loving British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare, possibly talking anti-Communism with Red-fighting, churchgoing Dictator Franco. But why should Hess risk a dangerous airplane ride and his first parachute jump, plus the very best chances of internment, for a chance to negotiate with elements he could probably reach in Spain, Portugal or Sweden? And if his mission were official, how could Germany risk the effect on national morale that his queerly explained flight must inevitably cause...
...generous" peace offer to Great Britain, that Britain had better accept it. If such a peace were not forthcoming, they thought President Roosevelt should propose it. The Paris press, which Germany controls, also liked Franklin Roosevelt as a mediator. In Britain and elsewhere there was suspicion that Rudolf Hess had brought peace terms, that official bumbling over the Hess case (see col. 2) was because the terms were being considered. Even Germany buzzed with peace talk, under cover of what inspired Nazis called a "creative pause" before the next big blow at Britain...
...Lord Provost of Glasgow protested that Hess brought Glasgow so much publicity that his presence there might well bring on an air raid. > In Rio de Janeiro a Swiss druggist named Rudolf Hess grabbed an airliner to avoid importunate newsmen and photographers. > Mrs. Emma Hess Upchurch of Bristol, Va., a sister-in-law, was proud that her boy Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess...
...psychiatrists last week had a field day-in private and in public-explaining the method and madness of Rudolf Hess...