Nazis Start New “Peace" Intrigue

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 304, 26 December 1939, Page 3

Nazis Start New “Peace" Intrigue

GOEBBELS SHRIEKS FOR VICTORY Mussolini-Himmler Talks Expected to Open the Move (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received 23, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, December 22. The British United Press correspondent in Rome says that, according to political circles, Signor Mussolini on December 21 entrusted to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the German Secret Police, who has been visiting Rome, a special message to Hitler, afte» which Himmler, after telephoning Hitler, returned to Berlin a day earlier than expected. Officials decline to discuss reports that the message refers to a Christmas peace offer which, according to feelers from Germany, has been received in Rome It is understood that it is suggested that, if Britain and France abandoned their insistence on the reconstitution of Czechoslovakia and Austria. Hitler would be willing to deal generously as regards Poland, the correspondent adds. ‘ „ . Meanwhile, Berlin messages state that Dr. Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, in an address to a political Christmas party, said: “Germanv’s existence is at stake. The enemy is not concealing that his'goal is to strike down Germany and dismember and split her up. _ . * . ' Either we must resign as a Great Power or win the war. Iho whole plutocratic world is united against the Socialist German nation in the hope of annihilating it. “Germany’s totalitarian war is united on the battle front and at the home front by the same sacrifices and national obligations. "We promise our soldiers that our home front will do its duty and bear the inevitable sacrifices in order to lighten them. “We shall talk peace only after victory,” Dr Goebbels de.