Lindbergh as Witness Lor Goering

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 280, 27 November 1945, Page 5

Lindbergh as Witness Lor Goering

Hess to be Tested By Lie Detector

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received Monday 9.45 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 26. Colonel Charles Lindbergh, commenting in New York on a report that Goering desired him as a witness at the Nuremberg trial, said: ‘‘l have received no such request. My contacts with Goering were arranged with United States Embassy officials and one meeting was at the American Ambassodor’s personal request. The information I obtained on my trips through Germany was contained in War and State Department reports. If I were asked to testify, I would be guicled now, as before, by advice from the appropriate Government officers.”

Hess and the other defendants will be tested by an electric lie-detecting machine if the Tribunal consents, says the Daily Mail correspondent n Nuremberg. An expert who is now assembling the machine claims that it would establish definitely if Hess was genuinely suffering from amnesia. Sixty pages of coirespondence between the Vatican and the Nazi Government have arrived as evidence for the prosecution after Judge Jackson’s statement in his opening address that the Vatican protested to Germany several times against the persecution of the Church. The progress of the trial has been so rapid so far that it is hoped that the entire case for the prosecution will finish before the Christmas recess.

Almost all the defendants except Hess worked on their defence over the week-end. All except Hess, Rosenberg and Stretcher yesterday seized the opportunity to attend their first church service since being brought to Nuremberg. Most of the proceedings so far today in the trial were taken up by the American chief prosecutor (Judge Jackson) putting in evidence of the Germans’ preparations for the seizure of Czechoslovakia.