Evening star., 1941-05-13
Hess Carried Peace Plan in Flight
Nazis Hint but British Deny 1t;
Parry Leaders Confer With Hitler
Aides of Fuehrer
Show Determined
Will for Victory
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN, May 13.-Close upon
Rudolf Hess flight to Scotland
with what Nazis called an hal
lucination" Of German-BritiSh
peace-the subleadership of the
Reich met today with Adolf Hit
Ter for a show of determined
will for victory"
Hitler addressed the gathering,
the official party news service said,
but no other details of the meeting
were given. In response to the
Fuehrer's address, it was said,
party leaders gave the Fuehrer
an impressive demonstration
of determined will for victory"
Foreign reports that Hess wife
and 4-year-old son had left the
country were energetically denied by
party associates. These sources said
the family was perfectly free and
had the sympathy Of all party mem
,bers in their personal tragedy"
Wounded Three Times.
IN the German press late today
Hess was more fully pictured: AS a
man who suffered seriously from
stomach ulcers, lung trouble in
somnia and mental arrangement,
traceable in part to World War in
juries. Hess was wounded three
times-once in the chest.
An organ of the Nazi party said
Hess knew numerous peace pro-
posals, stemming from deep In the
heart of the Fuehrer' better than
any one else" And in speeches in
the course of the last year frequent
ty referred to them.
A party explanation said further
that the war will be carried on
untiI-as the Fuehrer declared in his
last speech-the British rulers are
overthrown or are ready for peace"
Authorized sources said, however,
that this was not to be taken as "a
new statement or revision of war OBJ
!estives."
'Under HallucinatiOn."
Hess, No. 3 man in the Nazi hier-
archy, made his fantastic flight to
Scotland because he appears to
have lived under the hallucinatlon
that he was still able to bring about
an understanding between Germany
and England with old English ac-
quaintances," the Nazi party an
nounced officially today.
A party communique said Hess,
second only to Reichsmarshal Her.
mann Wilhelm Goering as Hitler's
personally chosen heir apparent, had
suffered serious physical disability
for years land recently resorted
increasingly to various aids, mes
merizers, astrologers and SO forth.
"It, however" the statement added,
"also is imaginable that, in the last
analysis Hess Intentionally was lured
into trap by the British.
THE National Socialist party
regrets that his idealism fell victim
to such fateful delusion," it went
on. "This will not interfere with
the continuation of the war against
England forced upon the German
people"
: Hitler, meanwhile, personally took
over Hess party Office, formerly
known as the office Of the deputy
of the Fuehrer" and changed the
title to party chancellery."
: Denoted, Germans Say.
Germans in responsible position
took sharp issue with the British
Interpretation of events, which
challenged the soundness Of Hitler's
action in designating a man pro-
nounced mentally incompetent as
successor to the party leadership
after Marshal Goering.
What happened 18 months ago
(when he was made Hitler's deputy
was that Hess was not promoted to
third ranking Nazi," a spokesman
said, "but was denoted from second
place"
"As deputy to Hitler he would
normally have succeeded the
.Fuehrer. But in view of the abilities
and temperaments of the available
men, Hitler by formal act chose
Goering as his immediate successor.
- From the de jure point of view
this was an incongruous arrange
ment, but one now shown to have
been fully justified. The fact is
that Hess was removed from the
position which could have made him
immediate successor to the Fuehrer."
~ Hess was described as man, who
in the vigor of his powers, performed
great service for the party, but was
retiring by nature and suffering in
creasingly from physical ailments
and tortured especially by sleepless-
ness. 1t was felt in many quarters
that he lacked supreme leadership.
. Of the landing in Scotland the
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