HESS’ TRIAL URGED
MOSCOW PAPER’S PLEA (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 19. The immediate trial of Rudolf Hess, former deputy Fuehrer, who flew to Britain in 1941, is urged by the Moscow paper Pravda in a leader on the punishment of German war criminals. , “It is necessary to determine Hess present capacity,” the paper says. “Is he a criminal liable to be tried and punisfied or is he a plenipotentiary of Herr Hitler in England, enjoying extra-territorial rights? To imagine I-less safe from the judgment of the oeople’s tribunal for the duration is to close one’s eyes to the crimes of one of Herr Hitler’s most blood-thirsty criminals.” ________
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 4
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