The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15
Hitler Knows About
 Hess Mystery Flight
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At the same time, Churchill ap- peared before the House Of Coin- mons and promised that he would make an extended statement ct the first opportunity compatible with public interest on the Hess case and on the Duke of Hamilton. to whom Hess talked after landing on the Dukes estate.
 It had been disclosed that Hess had written three months ago to his friend, the Duke, urging an end to the lunacy of war and that, after the war began, the Duke had written to the Times of London urging 'liv- ing space" for Germany and saying the war should end as soon as the threat of German aggression was overcome.
 Churchill defended the govern ment's handling of the Hess case and the fact that news of the arrival of the No. 8 Nazi had been withheld from the public until the facts had been fully established-and inciden- tally until after the Germans had announced that Hess was missing. Hess landed In Scotland on Satur- day but no news was given out un- til Monday night.
 Calls Hess Murder
 "Froin my poiot of view" Bevin said, "Hess is a murder.
 He is no man I would ever nee gotiate with and I don't change even for diplomatic reasons"
 Bevin added:
 "Nazism is the Nazis to me. don't believe that Hitler didn't know that Hess was coming to England.
 For many years have had to deal with these totalitarian gentle- men and Communists. And I have seen this kind of stunt over and over again.
 T am not going to be deceived by any of them"
 "You can understand my feelings about Hess when I tell you that he was the man who collected every index card of every trade union leader In Germany and the social Democrats and when the time came they either were sent to concentra- ton camps or murdered" Bevin continued.
 Churchill decided to postpone the statement, which had been expected today, 1t was understood, after e midnight conference of cabinet leaders which followed . cabinet meeting yesterday.
 Instead of the full statement, it was said, either Churchill or Foreign, Secretary Anthony Eden may make brief statement answering com. plaints thatt he government did not announce Hess presence in this country until the Germans had re. ported his disappearance" and called him Insane.
 Circulated Report
 A widely circulated report that Eden had questioned Hess was de- nied officially. It was said Eden had told friends that he would refuse to meet "that so and so'' and Churchill, who was reported to have intended seeing Hess, was said to share the same antipathy to a personal encounter with the Nazi leader.
 officials were silent as to tho reasons for tho postponement of Q full statement on Hess.
 It was believed that for one thing, after the semi-official dis- closures that Hess was talking freely Churchill wanted to worry the Ger mans by keeping them guessing.
 There were suggestions also that if Churchill had been advised that Hess actually sought to convince Britain Germany was unbeatable and the war ought to be stopped in the interests of the two great Nordic nations there was no use dwelling on such Q theme.
 The view in government and dip- lomatic quarters was that the gov- ernment had acted wisely In con- cealing Hess's presence in Britain because the Germans, after alleg- in ghe was mentally unbalanced. had been compelled to alter their tone and emphasize his patriotism and, presumably, his sanity.
 In line with the policy of keeping Germany guessing, 1t was under- stood that the government had de- cided that Hess should not be per- mitted to make any public state- ment and was to be treated as q prisoner of war.
 Suspicion Grows Suspicion was growing that the dramatic airplane flight of the Nazi leader to this country might be a Nazi plot.
 Belief was growing, too, that the Nazis were telling the truth wher they said Hess wanted to prevent the destruction of one of the tive great Nordic countries but that 4 was Germany he was worried about not Britain and that If as reported he had been sickened by the war'' slaughter 1t was not that the wa; worried about the slaughter in Bri. tain but that he say 0ermany's turn coming.
 On tnis phase of the Hess niys.