GERMAN PROPOSAL
REJECTED BY FOREIGN OFFICE ATTEMPT TO USE AMBASSADOR AS PAWN. FOR RELEASE OF SPECIFIED NAZI. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 15. It is understood that the Foreign Office has rejected a German proposal to exchange a German (not Hess) who is now detained in England for Sir Lancelot Oliphant, the British Ambassador to Belgium, who was captured when the Germans -entered Belgium. Britain contends that lhe detention of her ambassador broke the rules of diplomatic usage, and that as a representative of the British Government he should have been permitted to return. The British Government is not prepared to use Sir Lancelot Oliphant as a pawn for the release of any German.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 5
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114GERMAN PROPOSAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 5
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