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...Home Guard headquarters he was turned over to the Army, while protocol-conscious Guardists protested the indignity of a second lieutenant's arresting a man of Hess's rank. Hess was taken first to the barracks outside Glasgow, then to a military hospital in the city. While he was on the way the Duke arrived talked for some time with Hess and British Intelligence officers...
Sporting Peer. With Hess incommunicado "somewhere in Great Britain," reading detective stories, eating better than many a Briton, talking to Government officials and Foreign Office-man Ivone Kirkpatrick, the press turned much attention on the Duke of Hamilton...
...first account from London said that the Duke had met Hess at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, that Hess had planned to approach him because before the war he was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship. The Duke's younger brother, also a flier, had worked in Nazi labor camps, married the strong-through-joy Hon. Prunella Stack, physical culturist and Nazi favorite...
After the Duke had met Hess and talked to him, an official announcement stated that Hess had written to him three months before, denouncing the war as "lunatic " This letter the Duke was supposed to have turned over to the authorities. A few days later, however, the Duke spoke for himself, insisted he had never met Hess before in his life...
...world waited anxiously last week for a word from the most promising source of information about Hess: Winston Churchill, who had promised to explain all to Parliament. But already it was evident that Hess's flight had disconcerted Germany too much for it to be an elaborate ruse; that he was no ordinary turncoat eager to aid his country's enemies, or the British would not have been so puzzled; that Hess's peace plan, if he had one, had not a slender chance of winning acceptance...