Evening star., 1946-03-25
Hess Ching Of Pact
With Russia Blocked
AT Nuremberg Trial
BY the Associated Press


NUREMBERG, Germany, Mar. 25.
An objection by the Russian
prosecutor prevented counsel for
Rudolf Hess from reading into the
court record today excerpts from
what he called a secret treaty con-
cluded by Germany and Russia
three days before the Nazi attack
on Poland.
The lawyer asserted before the
international military tribunal that
the alleged treaty fixed spheres of
influence in Eastern Europe and
that details were contained in an
aff1davit submitted by DR.. Fried
rich Gaus, former German Ambas-
sador to Moscow.
Soviet Prosecutor r. A. Rudenko
Jumped up to object to the read
ing OF surprise documents" before
they were translated and submitted
to the prosecution.
Il don't know what kind of docu-
ments he is talking about" Rudenko
said. 1T sounds like hearsay to me-"
Seeks to Call Molotov.
When Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey
Lawrence sustained the objection
Hess lawyer countered with:
In that case I must ask permis-
sion to call Soviet Foreign Commits
sar Molotov to establish if this
agreement was not actually con-
cluded."
One provision of the alleged
secret agreement, the attorney said
was that Germany declared itself
uninterested in three Baltic states
-Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia-|
and Finland"
The tribunal ignored that request
and the galleries Uttered.
Earlier a document introduced by
Hess counsel claimed that the
former deputy fuehrer had warned
the British government, a month
after he parachuted into Scotland,
that the Nazis planned to establish
concentration camps and to starve
the British population if an attempt
were made to continue the war
after an invasion of the British
Isles.
Churchill Interview Related.
Colds kept Joachim Won Ribben-
trop and Julius Streicher from at
tending court this morning. Rib
bentrop was reported to be working
in his cell on documents for his
own defense.
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, English
born and South Authenticated
leader of the Nazi party's foreign
organization" grinned at Hess from
the witness stand while the defense
read Bohle's affidavit that he dis
sipated fears and qualms' of VIM
ston Churchill in a personal inter-
view nine years ago
Bohle swore that the German
Embassy arranged through the Brit
ish Foreign Office for him to spend
more than an hour talking with
Churchill at the latter's London
fiat in October, 1887 The upshot
was, he alleged, that Churchill
abandoned plans for an inquiry by
the House of Commons into Nazi
activities in England.
The defense counsel said Bohle
was Hess only witness.
Bund Connection Denied.
Under cross-examination by John
Harlan Amen, deputy United States
prosecutor, Bohle denied that his
organization had connections with
the German-American bund in the
United States or gave the bund
financial support.
Amen produced a report on the
Interrogation of the former first
secretary of the German Embassy
in Washington, Won Strempel, who
after his capture in Germany, told
queStioners he was confident Bohle's
organization had given the bund in
structions when and how to hold
mass meetings and handle propa-
ganda.
That is a completely false rep
resentation," Bohle insisted.
Called Confidence Men,"
Bohle startled even Amen when
he insisted that DR.. Friedhelm
Draeger. former German consul gen.
eral in New York, and Consuls Gen.
eral Fritz Wiedemann of San Fran
cisco, Gessling of Los Angeles and
Baron Edgar Won Spiegel Und Zu
Peckelsheim of New Orleans were
confidence men" instead of con
fidential agents"
He said they made reports which
were forwarded to Berlin and con-
tended that these contained only
material of technical nature and
mot espionage reports
Amen read Won Strempel's al
legations that the German Embassy
IN Washington had protested re-
peatedly to Berlin before Pearl !
Harbor that an order forbidding
link between the bund and the
Nazi organization was being violated
and that Ambassador Hans Thomson
informed the German Foreign Of
flee that such support of the bund
was harming diplomatic relations
with the United States.
Bohle said he never heard of |
such protests. He admitted having
heard before the war that bund |
leaders came to Germany and con-
ferrea with Hitler and other lead
ers but said they never had con-
forn1noc will