Nazi Peace Offensive in Spring ?

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 3, 4 January 1940, Page 8

Nazi Peace Offensive in Spring ?

Reshuffle Within Germany United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. PAliiS, January 2. A plan for an ingenious reshuffling of the Nazi regime as part of a spring peace move is published with reserve in the newspaper Petit Parisien from a correspondent in Italy. The plan, like previous manoeuvres, aims at leaving Germany in possession of the essential part cf her conquests. Hitler would become President similar to the late FieldMarshal von Hindenburg, and Field-Marshal Goering would become Chancellor. The Nazi Police Chief, Heinrich Himmler, the Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, the leader of the Labour Front, Dr. Ley, and others would disappear, and foreign affairs would be entrusted to a professional diplomat, probably Dr. von Mackensen, German Ambassador to Rome. Dr. Schacht would be reinstated as Minister of Economy, n position from which he resigned nearly a year ago. The new administration would renounce self-sufficiency in order to restore world trade. It would observe “political distance” from Russia, and fix the size f>f Czechoslovakia and Poland by arbitration of a high personage. The Petit Parisien expresses the opinion that German indus. trialists would welcome any interior solution likely to prevent Germany’s slinpine toward Bolshevism.