PEACE PLAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 5

PEACE PLAN

GENERAL EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT GERMANY DEMANDING COLONIES ANTICIPATED PROPOSAL FROM HITLER By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. October 16. A dispatch asserts that the basis of a plan which Herr Hitler will shortly propose to Britain and France for a general settlement includes a German guarantee of the French frontiers and a declaration that the present British Empire conforms to German interests. Also included are: Air limitation pacts between Britain and Germany and France and Germany; no pacts whatever with Russia, complete liberty of German action in eastern Europe; and the return to Germany (despite the declaration about the British Empire) of her former colonies at present mandated to Britain and France. MEETING IN BERLIN AUDIENCE LAKES PLEDGE REMOVAL OF NATIONAL HUMILIATION LONDON. October 16. A big audience, including uniformed army officers and veterans of the German colonial wars, assembled at Berlin University today to celebrate the seventieth birthday of General Ritter von Epp, leader of the Reich Colonial League. The audience rose to its feet while the following pledge, composed by General von Epp, was read out: “We promise the Fuehrer to use the same energy as our historical forerunners to regain our colonial possessions, which they acquired, so that Germany s national humiliation may be removed.” After* this the* German colonial song was, sung. NEW ERA OPENED ACCORDING TO MARSHAL GOERING. CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER NATIONS. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) BERLIN, October 16. Claiming that the Fuehrer’s love of peace had preserved Europe from the terrors of a new war, Field-Marshal Goering, in the ’Four Year Plan periodical, says Germany will begin a new era of peaceful and creative work, conscious of the value of the friendship of the Italian people and with the aim of closer .co-operation with other great nations.