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rac, i % tile i $ ! 4 a 1 the “ad ee ! a Sa Ft amcetos Rahs Eee a ~~ es S steeeeeaiee SY ee e ea Ne: a. MACON ITALY MUTE bie FFAG Oj spiel te kill Hitler 7 two years later ~ “7 NEWS CHRONICLE REPORTER OC , T¥o years and seven weeks before the attempt to kill Hitler with a . bomb at Munich on July 20, 1044, the hames, ranks, titles and even addresses of those who made the attern fice, Pesce: pt and paid with their lives, were in the hands of the British Govern ment, locked away in a safe at the Foreig Only one other man in Britain Krew the details of the plot, He Was 62-year-o) ié Right Rev, Gearge Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ti wes he who met some of the men, who / - } - Py yeas To emer bee oe IN] Ne bopactale saa) ls OPFICH OF THE LEGAL AMODTCAN PMBASCY : LOHDON, ENGLAND 4 . 1 “ ee oe CK se Te mt eee ¥ two years later were to try to kill Hitler with a bomb. He met Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pasto , who risked his iife to get to ‘ “Teweden and tell the bishop fr the attempt that was to be made, This is how the bishop, whose death would have been certain | had the Nazis known he had the names on him, told me the story last night Escaped : wen : “In May, 1042, I was in Stock. |' holm, lecturing for the Ministry of Information and trying to con-}. tact members of the clergy who Were anti-Hitler, : ; | “One day I heard that Bon.! hoeller, whom I had met fin Landon nine years before, Had e:faped from Germany d Wanted % see ma, He walked into my room and} saic culmiy: ‘We are going to try! and kill Hitler, Here are all the names. You know I am anti-Nazi, Hiner 4 ‘ but I care nothing for myself, fess ‘J ae} c “But I want you te Go back to the British Government with jmesce names and ask them to proinis that the men who KU] Bitle?. shall not ke treated as ordinary Hitlerites and should be allowed to make reasonable peace jerms. } handed List han ded | “T brought the lst back to Eng- |: tiand and tack {t to Mhe Foraign |" \ Secretary,” the bishop went on. Fe asked that the men on the Iist over should be regarded favourably, and that. the British Government ‘ [should issue a statement saying ‘that if Hitler was murdered those}: “responsible would not be treated by | us as Nazis, . 1 “The Government's atitude tas ‘Very reserved and nothing was _ done,” he added. . : t. VAS {A the names on the Ust wee an | those wha (wo years later actually A _Gid try enti Hitler, There was). - Col.-Gen” Reet Field-Marshatyvog,|: Wizlebe LE-Gen, Pawwon laze . " Col.-Gensblogpper and the rest. ; T""The bishop told me that. he had |. every hope qhat? tha’ plot’ would Buccced, “Nothing would have pleased | ime more than ta have heard that} he and his whole bunch had been |.