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SURFACE RIFT

IN THE NAZI MACHINE FIRST SYMPTOM OF SHAKEN CONFIDENCE. VIEW OF LONDON “TIMES.” (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 14. “The Times" in a leading article says that out of the group which has surrounded Herr Hitler. Herr Hess is perhaps the only one whose loyalty to Hitler was unalloyed by any suspicion of self-seeking and into whose relations with the Fuehrer an element of personal devotion appeared to enter. But the precedent of June 30, 1934, showed that no friend, however intimate. would be spared once he had been frank enough to criticise or oppose the supreme will of the Fuehrer. “The assassination of Roehm and the gratuitous thoroughness with which his memory was besmirched has left a lasting scar even on the by no means delicate susceptibilities of the Nazi leaders, and such a blow to their personal confidence could hardly be retrievable,” lhe newspaper says. “They were taught a lesson from which Hess —one, no doubt, among many—appears to have profited. “The rift on the surface does not imply that the rottenness has yet spread through the whole structure; but questionings will not be so easily silenced in the ranks of the party, and still less easily in the country as a whole. ... It would, however, be wholly misguided to suppose that his flight opens up the prospect of any easy break in cohesion of the German political machine —still less of any slackening of German military efficiency. When the history of the war is written this event will be marked as the first symptom of a cohesion that was sapped and a confidence mortally shaken.” DUKE OF HAMILTON SERVING AS AIR COMMODORE. The Duke of Hamilton (on whose estate in Scotland Hess landed on Saturday evidently with the intention of seeing the Duke) is a well-known airman and boxer, who is now serving as an air commodore. He is known as the “Fighting Duke.” Formerly the Marquess of Clydesdale, he succeeded his father, the fourteenth Duke of Hamilton, last year. He is the premier peer of Scotland, the hereditary Keeper of Holyrood Palace, and last year became Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household. He acted as chief pilot of the Mount Everest Flight Expedition of 1933. He is aged 38. REMAINS OF PLANE EXHIBITION IN LONDON PROPOSED. LONDON, May 14. The remains of Hess’s plane will be ' exhibited in London during the “War I Weapons Week" beginning on May 17.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 5

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SURFACE RIFT Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 5

SURFACE RIFT Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 5

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