HESS IN DOCK

Chronicle (Levin), 26 March 1946, Page 5

HESS IN DOCK

Press Assn.

Objectioii to Affidavit WAR CRiMES' TRIBUNAL CONTiNUES

By Telegraph

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Received Tuesday, 11.10 a.m. NUKlMVi.tJ.iii.rwr, lViarcil ^0. Fellow prisoners shook hands v/itii riess aua gave him woias of encouragemenu wnen. nis ucxcntc oegan oeiore tbe War Crimes' Triounai lout Hess did not display more tnan nis usuai wandering interest 111 tne prooeu.mgo. When his counsel, ueidel, began a recital of oocumentary evidence, Dotn tne Russian aiaa American prosecutors oojected when Seidel suomitted an alfidavit from Friedricli Gauss, an omciai or tne German Foreign Ohice who att^nded negotiacions ieading to tne kussian-German pact of 1939. The ahidavit, wnich tne prosecutors eumpxainea uiac they hau noc previousiy seen, aiieged that there was a secret agreement for the eiiminaLion oi spneres of interest between cne signatories, witn Germany deciariiig nersen umnterested in the tj&icic acaies and h'imand. The TriDunal ruied that the affidavit couid not be considered until it had been translated into Engnsh. 'ine hrst witness for Hess was Brauroiu-uorn Krnst Vviiheim Bonie, wno headed the Foreign Depar&ment whicn Hess -jrgamsed to promoie a'wond-wioe hiuxi coiumn. Bohie i.who, says Reuter's correspunoent, was regarded by the Nazis as tne future gauieiter of Britain j descnbed visits to Britam in 1937. He saio he found Mr. Churchill '■reaoy to converse with me in a most cordiai manner." He went to Mr. Churcnilis nat and talked for more tnan an h'our. "I had ample opportnnity of dissipating his fears and quanns," he said. Mr. Churchill accGmpanied him to his car and they were pho.tographed together "to show the world they vvo-- parting Ua irienos."