Medicine: Psychiatrists on Hess

U.S. psychiatrists last week had a field day—in private and in public—explaining the method and madness of Rudolf Hess.

Some of their remarks:
> Dr. Foster Kennedy of Cornell: "Hess may have set out for the Duke of Hamilton because he thought a duke could do what Churchill could not—bring about peace. The Germans are such awful snobs. [Hess's flight] was merely a return to normality . . . a desire to escape from the asylum [Germany] in which he has so long been confined. . . . . His activities must be considered as those of a perfectly...

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