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...Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party, lands on a Scottish estate...
...onetime conscientious objector who has presided since 1938 over Glasgow as Lord Provost (mayor) of Britain's most radical city. In a career of laird-baiting he has come to consider himself an expert on such families as that of the young Duke of Hamilton, on whose estate Rudolf Hess landed unexpectedly last month. Sir Pat claimed last week to have the lowdown on the Hess case. The "genuine truth," as he revealed it to a War Weapons Week audience in Fifeshire...
Britons still debated the truth about the Duke of Hamilton and his friends-in Glasgow so violently that dramshop dialecticians often came to blows. The Duke started libel action against London Communists for saying he had plotted with Hess. Communist Harry Pollitt retorted that he would call Rudolf Hess as a witness...
...sought audience with the Prime Minister, was at length permitted to ride with him on the two-minute drive to Buckingham Palace, where Mr. Churchill had to see the King. The anxious young Duke went straight to the point: "Mr. Prime Minister, as my name has been associated with Rudolf Hess, I feel it is only right for me to resign my position as Lord Steward of His Majesty's Household." Churchill: "Come now, my boy, we can't have you do that...
...British opinion is divided about Rudolf Hess. But Ambassador Winant believes he fled in fear of his life, as the German military forces took more & more power, and old Nazi politicos like Hess were forced to take a back seat...