COMPROMISE PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 4

COMPROMISE PEACE

FIRST OPEN APPEAL MADE BY ITALIAN WRITER. SIGNIFICANT ADMISSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, February 17. Signor Gayda . yesterday made the first open appeal for a compromise peace. Writing in Gionale D’ltalia he said: “Italy must resist until the moment England realised that her debt to America is growing ever larger, her world markets are being destroyed, and that the risk of Communism becomes overwhelming. If peace is not made rapidly we could then consider a compromise peace with Britain and America but never with Russia. The Axis has no choice but to resist as long as is materially possible. The Allies’ geographical position protects them from direct attack but the same applies to the Axis. An Axis capitulation would mean heavy territorial losses and the impoverishment of their people; therefore the only way is continue resistance even if it appears completely hopeless. This applies especially to resistance on the Axis borders which in no event should be crossed. A former British Ambassador at Tokio, Sir Robert Clive, recently declared that the Allies did not expect Japan to collapse and, therefore, expected a negotiated peace. The Axis was determined to resist until a similar statement applies to them. The 1 -Soviet is the real danger to both belligerents, and for this reason the Allies should realise the futility of continuing the fighting.”