Psychiatrists on Hess

U.S. psychiatrists last week had a field day--in private and in public--explaining the method and madness of Rudolf Hess.

Some of their remarks: > Dr. Foster Kennedy of Cornell: "Hess may have set out for the Duke of Hamilton because he thought a duke could do what Churchill could not--bring about peace. The Germans are such awful snobs. [Hess's flight] was merely a return to normality . . . a desire to escape from the asylum [Germany] in which he has so long been confined. . . . . His activities must be considered as those of a perfectly sane man." > Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of Manhattan: "Hess may have a megalomanic-paranoiac trend. Hess's profound devotion to Hitler over so many years was semi-pathologic and he may have been suffering from a homosexual panic when he ran away. He may be a pathologic person but not necessarily crazy." > Dr. Leo Alexander of Boston: "Hess may be a constitutionally paranoid personality who may be expected under stress . . . to break down into full-fledged paranoia." > Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman, head of Psychiatric Division of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital: "I'm not a good enough psychiatrist to speculate a diagnosis on a patient in Scotland."

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