GOERING’S INFLUENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26198, 8 July 1946, Page 5

GOERING’S INFLUENCE

CLAIM BY HIS COUNSEL RESPONSIBLE FOR MUNICH NUREMBERG, July 5. Goering, although nominally Hitlers second-in-command, had no t special powers except in Hitler’s absence from the Reich, said his counsel, Otto Stahmer, before the War Crimes Tribunal. Goering could neither rescind, change nor supplement Hitler s orders. Stahmer claimed that Goering s influence was responsible for the Munich Pa t. If Goering had gone further in his work for peace he would have been risking a charge of high treason. He by-passed the Foreign Office ana tried to reach an agreement with Britain through a Swedish intermediary, Dehlorus. . . . . Mr Justice Lawrence twice rebuked Seidl, counsel for Hess, within the first three minutes of his final address foi not submitting his speech for translation and for arguing that the Treaty of Versailles was unjust. Later Mr Justice Lawrence refused tq hear Seidl c\ny more until he recast his speech in conformity with his ruling that the Versailles Treaty was irrelevant to the indictment.