Foreign News: THE TWILIGHT OF RUDOLF HESS

At a press conference in Manhattan two weeks ago Brendan Bracken cheerfully answered a dozen questions about Rudolf Hess. The British Minister of Information's volubility was a sign that the official silence about Hess had ended. Last week London's Daily Mail printed a fuller account of the condition and activities of Britain's No. 1 War Prisoner. The Daily Mail's story, amplified by information given to a TIME correspondent:

Dream World. The moment he hit British soil, Hess demanded to see King George and "the Dukes." He wanted to tell them that Germany was...

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