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Only BBC kept its eye consistently on the ball. While the rest of London officialdom hemmed, hawed and disagreed with itself, BBC truly or falsely reiterated to Germany in ten broadcasts a day that Hess was talking freely, spilling the Nazis' innermost secrets. (A minor member of the Supreme War Council, Hess probably had no great fund of specific military information, but he probably knew the master outline of the Nazi campaign, certainly knew much about Germany's domestic situation...
Typical of official miscuing were the statements that Britain's Ministers made throughout the week. Said Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper, two days after Hess's capture was announced: "His arrival here shows the first breach in the Nazi Party . . . since Hitler murdered a huge bloc of his own followers on June...
...first public reaction to the news in Britain and the Americas was the same as Duff Cooper's. Hess was played up as a "decent" Nazi who had escaped from the enemy camp, would undoubtedly aid the British...
Later the tune changed. "In the public interest" Prime Minister Churchill (who said slyly when he first heard the news: "The maggot is in the apple.") delayed reporting to Parliament on the Hess incident. Then Labor Minister Ernest Bevin declared roundly: "I don't believe Hitler did not know Hess was coming to England. ... I have seen this kind of stunt over and over again. I am not going to be deceived by any of them. From my point of view Hess is a murderer. He is no man I would ever negotiate with...
...Nazi boss's flight caused almost as many Governmental contortions as it did in Great Britain, thus tending to indicate that had the British shut up and sat tight they would have had the Nazis well over a barrel. Lord Haw-Haw had originally announced that Comrade Hess had taken off against the Führer's orders, apparently while insane, probably crashed...