The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-20

s''S1'''' '''''''' lieve 1t, though
Rudolf Hess except, posi-
bly,, the Ger
mans. Another yarn is that what
ever Rudolf says to Winston must
be discounted 100 per cent. on the
ground that Adolf deliberately sent
MIN TO Britain to fill the British
level full Of misinformation.
Washington, where hang out, Is
simply bursting with curiosity. No
doubt the whole country is, the en-
tire affair being a mystery fit to set
Sherlock Holmes guessing. But it's
more than a mere mystery to our
capitals officialdom, which more
than surmises that presently 1t will
reveal itself as a corkingly impor-
.ant acknowledgement, that's liable
10 furnish US with immensely VAL
liable pointers in connection with
our own collateral policies; if Ger
many's cracking up internally. we
certainly are tickled, as well as the
rest Of the democracies.
Plenty. of Solutions
Tentative solutions of the puzzle
are almost too numerous to men.
ton.
Adolfs version, that Rudolf Is
nutty, while tossed into the dis
card, as being borne out by none Of
the evidence, nevertheless is re-
garded as having its significance,
In that Adolf was in such hot haste
to broadcast it. Generally, when he
runs into a bit Of hard luck, he
supp-esses the news Of II. But this
bit was of such proportions that he
deemed it necessary to counteract
Il, somehow.
The notion that the Fuehrer air.
planed his deputy into Scotland as
a Trojan horse generally is pooh.
pooh'ed. Adolf needs native Trojan
horses in the countries he seeks to
operate on; a German horse would
be too noticeably Trojan
That Rudolf doesn't want the
British empire to be completely
destroyed, and aims to mediate
peace on his own responsibility
strikes most observers as highly
improbable. He hasn't behaved
very considerably toward the Brit.
fish empire hitherto. Contrariwise,
its suggested that.he already fore
sees Germany's defeat In the long
run and wants to mediate now, in
order to prevent it. To date,
though, the Nazis have been pretty
successful. Why should he develop
a defeatist bunch at the present
juncture?
The more plausible theory ap-
pears to be that he violently fell
out with Hitler, expected to be
liquidated and scooted while the
going was good.
But what was the issue over
which he and the boss fuehrer
quarreled 50 bitterly?
Opposed TO Reds
Wen, they say Rudolf was
rampant National Socialist and
furiously opposed to Communism.
And Adolf, for quite a while, has
been tending toward rapproche-
ment with Communistic Commissar
Stain. Did Rudolf get sore about
it? Maybe. Yet few intelligent by
ISLANDERS have so much as suspect
ed, at any stage of the game, that
Herr Hitler was doing otherwise
than play Joe Stain for a sucker,
or that he wouldn't dump the latter
at the FIRST favorable opportunity.
1t seems as If Rudolf must have
understood this, so why was he so
tremendously resentful Of Berlin's
temporary tinkering with Mos
COW?
One would guess that, at most,
II couldn't have been more than a
mild difference Of opinion between
Rudolf and Adolf. Still, at that, it's
remarked that there's no such
thing as a MILD disagreement
with Adolf Hitler. II you disagree
With him at all. It's total. Incl
dentally. I hear critics observe
that they don't think it's Rudolf
who's crazy; it's Adolf.
Then, there's another theory.
From all accounts, the German
army isn't pro-Nazi; it's pro-
army. Now. Marshal Coering is a
big man in the army He also is
Herr Hitler's first deputy fuehrer.
ranking Second Deputy Hess, but
It's alleged that he's more an army
man than he Is a Nazi: that his
schemes to army-ize Germany,
overthrowing the Nazis, and liaui-
date both Herr Hitler and Herr
Hess, himself grabbing control Of
everything. Rudolf. il this spiers
correct overheard hints of the pro-
gram. decided that Marshal Coer.
Ing could and would put it acros.,
before long, and lit out, TO escape
being iquidated, not by Herr hit.
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