HITLER MOVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8

HITLER MOVE

PEACE APPEAL DURING LEAGUE MEETING ANTICIPATED BY FRENCH NhWdPAPhKS. EXPECTATION OF DOUBLE DEALING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARIS, December 11. “Germany will seek to launch another peace offensive during the League meeting,” states “Le Journal,” which publishes “with reserve” a report that Hitler is prepared to reconstitute Czechoslovakia without Sudetenland, restore Poland in the districts exclusively occupied by Poles. White Ruthenia and East Galacia to be buffer States, with a plebiscite in Austria. Finally it is suggested that the Allies join Hitler in an anti-Bolshevik crusade. Other Paris newspapers warn their readers not- to listen io suggestions that Hitler is less dangerous than Stalin. M De Kerillis states'that Hitler’s plan is to destroy Communism, with the aid of the Allies, and then destroy the Allies with the aid of Italy and Spain, whom he can later easily dominate. M Daladier and Mr Chamberlain have seen through the manoeuvre. Most commentators agree that the League can do little to stop Russia and Germany.

NO CONFIRMATION IN LEADING CAPITALS* NORWEGIAN PROPOSAL. (Received This*Day, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, December 11. The German peace offensive cannot be confirmed in London, Geneva or Berlin, but in Oslo the ex-Premier, M Johan Mowinckel, suggested that neutrals who were members of the League of Nations should urge Italy and the United States to summon a conference of belligerents, possibly at Rome, and to seek reconciliation on the basis of political, economic and monetary cooperation. This presumably envisages British, French, German, Russian and Finnish participation.