LATEST PEACE PLAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1940, Page 5

LATEST PEACE PLAN

COLLAPSE OF HITLER’S HOPES MOVE TO ISOLATE BRITISH EMPIRE. ATTEMPT TO IMPRESS AMERICA (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, November 3. The “Sunday Despatch” says a new peace plan by Hitler was delivered to Washington via the American Embassy in Paris. The paper says Hiller intended bringing the plan into operation on Hie basis of maintaining the status tpio in Europe after bringing France and Spain into the Axis grouping and subjugating the Balkans.

This meant Europe for Germany, Africa for Italy and Germany, Asia for Japan, and the British Empire for Britain, by which means Hitler hoped to keep the United States out of the war and isolate the British Empire, which could be attacked after a short period of peace. Greece, however, has resisted the Italian attack and Spain has not yet entered the Axis grouping. Even Marshal Petain’s France is proving difficult.

The “Observer” says that whatever the real explanation of the Italian blunder in placing the -Italian mainland and the Rumanian oilfields within easy reach of British bombers, it is certain that Hitler has again been forced to modify his plans. A week ago it was generally expected that Hitler would announce that the “new order” in Europe was a fait accompli, with the object of impressing America with a reasonable offer to respect the British Empire in return for British acceptance of a German Europe. The Italian offensive, therefore, surprised all neutral observers. What Hitler expected to be a new German diplomatic success has now been converted into what appears to be an acute diplomatic embarrassment. AXIS DISSENSIONS REPORTS NOT CREDITED IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 1. No credence is given in London to reports that Axis differences have arisen over the extension of the war to Greece. Some American commentators find puzzling certain aspects of the Italian attack, and do not consider that the slow Italian advance is entirely accounted for by the bad weather. No information is available, however, in London to support suggestions that Italy is acting without the full approval of Germany. NAZI PEACE HITLER’S ALLEGED CLAIM. MONK AS ENVOY TO U.S.A. LONDON. November 3. In an article in the “Sunday Ex-, press.” Mr. George Slocombe, the wellknown war commentator, says that Hitler’s agent in a secret peace mission to the United States is Duke Charles Alexander, who fought in the German army in the last war. He is also a renegade monk known as Father Oder. Mr. Slocombe said that just before the outbreak of the war Father Oder visited London to interest Londoners on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of persecuted German Catholics. He made no secret of his hatred of the Nazi philosophy, but apparently had been won over by a glib statement by Hitler that he (Hitler) had never renounced the Catholic faith. 1 Mr. Slocombe says that Hitler told Father Oder that his task in the United States would be to persuade the American people that the Fuehrer intended to liberate Europe from Communism and other political trends, and that when he had won a totalitarian war he would make a totalitarian peace. Germany alone, claimed Hitler, could bring peace to Europe.