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George Rodger , wonders () Did the Duke of Hamilton have a secret meeting with Hess before the one recorded in the archives? When did Duke of Hamilton first speak with Hess? I was re-reading your book Hess : The Missing Years and then was intrigued to come across an account by Air Vice-Marshal Sandy Johnstone that contradicts the accepted time of 10am the following day as being the Duke of Hamilton ‘s first meeting with Rudolf Hess after his arrival.
The account comes from an ‘Oral Histories’ section of a Glasgow City Council Museum’s book published in 2003, and probably not well-known – Glasgow’s Spitfire ; in this, and Johnstone mentions that he was having dinner with the Duke and Duchess when Hamilton was called away to the telephone to be told of the arrival of a German named Alfred Horn, who wanted to see him.
“But the intelligence people seemed to think there was something on, so Douglo went off to Glasgow where they had taken him, into Maryhill Barracks, he’d landed at Eaglesham. I went