But another newspaper15 took a similarly reproachful tone toward the conspirators. The New York Times declared that those who had attempted “to kidnap or kill the head of the German state and commander in chief of the Army” had done something one would not “normally expect within an officers’ corps and a civilized government.” And Winston Churchill16, who had done his best to starve the conspiracy to death, now kicked its corpse, calling the attempt a case of “the highest personalities in the German Reich murdering one another.”
