AT A LOSS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1943, Page 3

AT A LOSS

HITLER NOT TO ORATE ON NAZI ANNIVERSARY. PREDICTIONS OF NEW PEACE OFFENSIVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association-*-Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 29. Hitler will not speak at tomorrow’s celebration ,oi: ten years of Nazi rule. Instead Goebbels will read a proclamation from Hitler and Goering will broadcast to the German forces. Observers attach considerable signifie- ■ anee to Hitler’s decision not to speak. He has spoken on ■ every anniversary, except in 1938, when the army purge was being carried out, but then only postponed his anniversary speech until February.

“There is every indication that Germany will soon launch a new and determined peace offensive,” says the “Daily Mail’s” diplomatic correspondent. “Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt must have had this in mind when they insisted that their Casablanca talks should be described as an ‘unconditional surrender conference.’ No peace proposals have yet come from Germany, but I am reliably informed that information from inside Germany and hints from capitals where German agents work show that a new appeal for peace is on its way. “Many times during the war hints of peace plans have been planted in neutral capitals for despatch to London, but have been ignored. This new peace offensive, however, may be regarded in a different light because of the plight of the German armies in Russia and the internecine strife known to exist among the ‘high-ups’ in Germany.” Hitler and Goebbels have ordered that there shall be no displays throughout Germany.