BERLIN, Sunday, March 3, 1940.
 
          At ten o'clock, accompanied by officials of the German Foreign Office and by Dr. 
 
Schmidt, the official interpreter, I called upon Rudolf Hess, the Deputy to Hitler as head of the 
 
Nazi Party organization.
 
          Hess received me in his offices in the party headquarters built in the modern German style, 
 
the walls being completely bare of molding or decoration of any kind.
 
          Herr Hess bears the unmistakable appearance of being devoid of all but a very low order 
 
of intelligence. His forehead is low and narrow, and his deep-set eyes are very close together. He 
 
is noted for his dog-like devotion to Hitler. During our conversation he reverted again and again 
 
to the years when he was imprisoned with Hitler and of their service together in the Great War.
 
          At the outset of our conversation, I outlined to him the nature of my mission and said that 
 
I would be glad to receive any views that he cared to express to me.
 
     Herr Hess took out of his pocket a typewritten memorandum, in which were noted the 
 
points he had been obviously told to make in his talk with me. His exposition followed precisely 
 
the lines set forth by Ribbentrop in his talk with me, and there was no deviation from that outline
 
other than a paragraph or two which related to Nazi Party organization. This was brought up in 
 
connection with Hess's statement to me that the German people were convinced that the war aims 
 
of the Allies were solely the destruction of Germany and of the German people, and that the 
 
German people stood as one man behind Hitler. Hess said that as active Head of the Nazi Party he 
 
was in a better