Evening star., 1941-06-25
HitIer's Latest Move Called Colossal BIunder;
Nozi Attack on Russo Linked to Hess

paranoiac mind-and the Lease
Lend Bill, the spectacle of a
great have" nation ruled by
money lords" giving away things
for no quid pro quo shook all
his pre-conceived notions. Politi-
cally, the Lease-Lend Bill was
the most brilliant move the
President has made in the war
of nerves.
The early German comments on
the Hess flight said that Hess had
had several letters from the Duke
of Hamilton. The British denied
this. But Rudolph Hess is an ex-
perienced politician and it seems
highly unlikely to me that he
would have gone to Scotland un-
less he had been offered some sort
of bait.
The proposition that he had
to make was, think, the old one
of asking for peace while dan
Cling the bogey of Russia. Hess
was known to be bitterly anti
Russian. I think he told the
British that Cd if Britain would
call off the war, Germany would
attack Russia; and that (2)
otherwise Germany would make
hard and fast alliance with
Russia and go out with her
against the British Empire in the
Middle East, Iran and India.
The mediator between Church.
i'll and Hess was Sir Frederick
Kirkpatrick, former counsellor of
the British Embassy in Berlin.
a man who was acquainted with
Hess, and who speaks German.
A small item in the press an
nounced that Churchill, while
these negotiations were going on,
called a conference of the do
minion governments and the
governments in exile which is
sued a more or less meaningless
report to the effect that no peace
would be made with Germany
until the European Continent was
liberated.
No "Chestnuts" for Churchill.
But Immediately. another small
item announced that Sir Fred
erick kirkpatrick had flown to
Ireland. Now. why Ireland? And
why Sir Frederick? Could it be,
perhaps. because there is a Ger
man Embassy in Ireland? Who
did Sir Frederick see in Ireland?
And if he got in touch with the
Germans, what did he tell them?
Did he tell them. perhaps, to
disregard the Churchill resolu-
tion? Did he encourage them,
perhaps. to believe that the
Churchill government might fall,
and another come in anxious to
collaborate with the Nazis against
Russia?
Between the attack on Russia
and Churchill's speech, there
must have been terrific tension
in Berlin. What JOY there would
have been had Churchill an
nounced that he was mot going
to pull Russia's chestnuts out of
the fire"
Churchill, however, is a states
man who knows exactly who the
enemy is. He made the strongest
attack on Hitler in his entire
career.
There is nothing Hitler can get
from Russia by war that he
could not have gotten much bet
Ter Oy peace.
The fate of Russia now lies in
the hands of the democracies-
not the fate of the democracies
in the hands of Russia. That also
happens to be matter of immense
political importance. Why in the
world. under those circum-
stances, should We fear Russia?
For the first time there is a
chance of an evolution in Rus
sia toward a socialist democracy
The wave of the future has
passed into the hands of Mr..
Churchill and Mr.. Roosevelt, who
alone among the statesmen of the
world have been absolutely con-
sistent. For the first time, Roose-
velt's prophecy made in his inau-
guration address has a chance to
come true: The future belongs
to US.
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