NAZI! PEACE MOVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 5

NAZI! PEACE MOVE

PREDICTED BY CORRESPONDENT IN ITALY Reshuffling of Administration in Prospect HOPES OF RETAINING GREAT PART OF CONQUESTS HITLER PRESIDENT AND GOERING CHANCELLOR (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Tieceived This Day, 9.30 a.m.) I’AliIS, January 2. A plan for an ingenious reshuffling of the Nazi regime as 1 >ai't of a spring peace move is published in the “ Petit Barisien,” with reserve, front a correspondent in Italy. The plan, like previous manoeuvres, aims at leaving Germany in possession of an essential part of her conquests. Hitler would become President, holding a position similar to that of Von Hindenburg, and Goering Chancellor. Himmler, Goebbels, Ley and others would disappear. Foreign affairs would be entrusted to a professional diplomat, probably Von Mackensen. Dr Schacht would be reinstated as Minister of Economy. The new administration would renounce self-sufficiency, restore world trade, observe “political distance” from Russia, and fix the size of Czechoslovakia and Poland by the arbitration of a high personage. The “Petit Parisien” expressed the opinion that German industrialists would welcome any interior solution likely to prevent, slipping toward Bolshevism.