Nazi-Soviet Control Plan

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20057, 2 October 1939, Page 7

Nazi-Soviet Control Plan

PROPOSAL BY HITLER HINTED Others To Blame For War POLICY AFTER LAST CONFLICT ENDED (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. October 2,10 a/m.) ' LONDON,-October 1.

■ A message from Amsterdam! quotes a report from ,the Berlin correspondent of the Dutch paper Telegraf, who says it is learned from a most reliable source that Herr .Hitlei proposes to transmit to London and Paris through Signor Mussolini two principal points. They are (1) The restoration of a buffer Polish State with Warsaw as the capital, the State comprising only the district inhabited by .the Poles. The State would be, economically and politically, completely dependent on Russia and Germany. (2) An offer of a Five-Power conference for a settlement of. outstanding problems. _ These would be most likely to include Italy’s East Mediterranean claims, and the German claims to colonies and the Soviet’s wishes regarding the Baltic States. The official German journal, Diplomatische Korrespondenz shows which way the German peace wind is blowing. It states: “The decision now rests with others as to whether they want a joint peace front or to continue the war. . The Russo-German pact has re-established preliminary conditions for the undisturbed development of Eastern Europe. The policy of the Western Powers afterthe Great War was linked with the desire to hold Germany down and push Russia eastwards. This period has ended.. The Moscow settlement proves that Germany cherishes no plans for hegemony as attributed to her. Far from wanting to interfere with the living space of others, Germany has reached an agreement with Russia designed to restore order and calm. Russia and Germany have clearly defined the limitation of their interests. They have made it quite clear that after the settlement in the east they want the war in the west terminated. ’ ’ The National Peace Council convened in London a meeting of representatives of peace organisations. The meeting issued a statement that .the proposals to end the war should not be summarily rejected, but used in order to secure a truce, enabling the submission of the issues to a conference. Presiding at the annual conference of the Scottish Labour Party,'Mr. John Calaghan said that even now it was not too late to propose a reorganisation of international affairs as such a proposal might induce willingness to resolve the dispute by arbitration; otherwise the catastrophe might roach such dimensions that civilisation itself might perish.