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Fact No. 1. The main fact was simple enough. Rudolf Hess, only two places removed from the leadership of Germany, had quit Germany under his own steam and gone to the enemy country, where he was imprisoned. In all the howling vortex of dope-stories, nut-stories, crackpot theorizing, official and amateur speculation that the Hess flight evoked, only the New York World-Telegram affected to doubt Fact No. 1. The Telegram hired a series of detective storytellers to mastermind the Hess Case. One, Lee Wright of Publishers Simon & Schuster, opined that Hess wasn't Hess...
...made, a "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...
This most extraordinary story of the world's most extraordinary war began last week this way: On Monday night the Nazi Party headquarters in Berlin announced that Rudolf Walther Richard Hess was missing on a plane flight. Against Adolf Hitler's orders -for Hess was suffering from a "progressive disease"-Hess had boarded a plane in Augsburg, Bavaria on Saturday. Since then he was presumed to have disappeared and died. He had left behind a letter which "showed clearly traces of mental disorder which led to fears that Party Comrade Hess was a victim of hallucinations." Hess...
LONDON--Rumors reached London tonight that "hundreds of persons" including the wife of Rudolf Hess have been arrested in Germany in the past two or three days as result of the flight of the Nazi deputy fuehrer to Britain...
...maelstrom of fanciful stories and blind alleys that has accompanied the capture and detention of Rudolf Hess, several Faculty professors well-acquainted with the situation inside Germany, have emerged with almost identical opinions. In view of the importance that has been attached to the Hess affair, the CRIMSON is presenting their composite judgment...