REPORTS & RUMOURS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4

REPORTS & RUMOURS

CIRCULATED BV GERMANS REGARDING “BIG THREE” MEETING. AND NAZI PEACE PROPOSALS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 29. According to the Berlin radio, Messis Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are already meeting at an undisclosed place. The enemy radio also said that Dr. Benes (President of Czechoslovakia) was participating in the “Big Three conference at Stalin’s express wish.. Commenting on reports of a meeting of Messrs Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to examine German peace proposals, the National Broadcasting Corporation’s Cairo correspondent says. I can state that the people who are responsible for our future are going ahead methodically to plan our operations, without waiting for the enemy to make up his mind about peace.” The Berne correspondent of the “New York Times” says that, armed With credentials from German economic and Army groups, Herr Von Papen (Nazi Ambassador to Turkey), is reliably reported to be at Rome, awaiting an audinece with the Pope. Von Papen, who is a Catholic and Papal Chamberlain, is understood to enjoy a favourable reputation in Vatican circles. He arrived in Rome from Munich after lengthy conferences with economic leaders, adds the correspondent. The Berlin radio has denied that Von Papen is visiting the Pope. The American Secretary for State (Mr Cordell Hull) told his Press conference at Washington that recurring peace rumours are false, and are circulated by enemy sources to create over-confidence among the Allies and impair the war effort.