NAZIS & RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1943, Page 4

NAZIS & RUSSIA

MORE TALK OF SEPARATE PEACE MOVE WITH THREAT OF JAPANESE INVASION. IF OFFER IS REJECTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 9. Observers in London point out that a significant change has taken place in Germany’s military and political policy towards Russia. The German Press and radio have ceased their fierce attacks on the Soviet Government. German diplomats abroad are intensifying a whispering campaign in neutral and satellite countries about the possibility of a separate GermanRussian peace. According to reports received in London, the German leaders would go a long way to obtain such a peace. It is believed that talk of peace serves the purpose of scaring neutrals like Turkey and Sweden and may keep satellites like Finland, Hungary and Rumania clinging to the German apron strings. The “Evening News” Stockholm correspondent says a peace move towards Russia is likely to follow the conference at Hitler’s headquarters and adds that it is believed that the Nazi chiefs decided on an all-out effort to buy off Russia from the war. Russia will be offered the return of her 1941 frontiers, with the exception of the Ukraine, and large slices of Poland and Rumania. If Russia refuses to accept the proposals, the next Axis step would be to threaten the Soviet with a Japanese invasion.