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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 6

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HITLER MAY ATTEMPT TO GET PEACE MR ATTLEE’S ANTICIPATORY WARNING. THE EMPIRE’S FIRM STAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) RUGBY, July 13. The possibility that Hitler may launch.h great peace offensive from Moscow, if he ever reaches Moscow, was discussed by the Lord Privy Seal (Mr C. R. Attlee) in a speech tonight. “Hitler would like to proclaim himself tho saviour of Europe from Bolshevism,” said Mr Attlee. “He would like to announce his new order. If Russia gave way, he would probably promise to restore to their peoples some of the lands he has seized and offer what would appear generous terms. Ho will seek to appeal to every peace-loving person. I dare say he will find some pacifists to respond. There are still a certain number of amiable, gullible, woolly-minded people, who, with a genuine loathing of war, shut their eyes to realities, who, despite abundant instances of the impossibility of putting any trust whatever in the word of the Nazis, still go about bleating about peace by negotiation. He may catch a few war-weary people here and there, and a few peace at any

price people, who put their private fortunes above the public weal. I can assure you he will deceive nobody in the Government. lam certain that the great mass of the people of this country and the countries of the British Commonwealth will not be deceived.”