A "PEACE OFFER."
Rumours In Political Circles
In Rome.
NO OFFICIAL COMMENT. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LOXDOX, December 22. The British United Press Rome correspondent says that according to political circles Mussolini on Thursday entrusted Herr Himinler, head of the Nazi Gestapo, with a special message to Hitler. Himmler, after telephoning Hitler, returned to Berlin a day earlier than was expected. Officials decline to discuss reports to the effect that the message refers to a Christmas peace offer, which, according to feelers from Germany received in Borne, is understood to suggest that if Britain and France abandoned' their insistence on the reconstruction of Czechoslovakia and Austria, Hitler would he willing to deal generously as regard* Poland.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 9
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