NAZI PEACE MOVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 5

NAZI PEACE MOVE

REPORTED APPROACH BY VON PAPEN TO BRITISH AMBASSADOR IN TURKEY. A DISCOURAGING REPLY. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 25. Reports are circulating in neutral diplomatic quarters in Ankara that the German Ambassador. Herr von Papen, has approached the British Ambassador. Sir Hughe KnatchbullHugcssen, with the aim of using Turkey as an intermediary for a BritishGerman peace. The British United Press correspondent says that according to unconfirmed reports. Herr von Papen put out the peace feeler, on the condition that Britain joined Germany in a coalition against Bolshevism. jSir Hughe is reported to have referred Herr von Papen to Mr Churchill’s affirmation of Britain’s supreme aim being the extermination of Nazism, in which Britain would support Russia. The Turkish Assembly today approved the treaty of friendship with Germany. The Foreign Minister, ’M. Saracoglu, said that this treaty, which regulated the relations between Turkey and Germany, "has definite stipulations that the existing pledge made by the contracting parties shall remain inviolate. This means" that Turkey's pledges to Britain remain intact. That reservation constituted the main condition in the conduct of the negotiations.” According to the Moscow radio, the Turkish Government has reaffirmed its neutrality in view of the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Germany.