NAZI BROADCAST GIVES HINT OF A PROPOSAL FOR PEACE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 1, 26 September 1939, Page 7

NAZI BROADCAST GIVES HINT OF A PROPOSAL FOR PEACE

Enemy Military Move Likely in War’s New Phase (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Received Sept. 25, 8.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 24. A German official broadcast intercepted in New York declared that with the redrafting of Poland’s frontiers the Reich has accomplished her war aims. The war was over as far as German aspirations were concerned. The broadcast added that England and France had no real cause for war, and Germany had no quarrel with England and France. _ The declaration is described by the “New York Times” as “not unlike an unofficial proposal for peace.” It occupied the greater part of 15 minutes in an English language

broadcast. However the “New York Times” Paris correspondent states that stock-taking of the first three weeks of the war indicates that a German military move is to be expected.

The Allies argue that events have modified the early British and French strategic conceptions, the most urgent consideration of which was to relieve the pressure on Poland by taking the initiative on the Western Front. It is evident that even large-scale operations on the Western Front will not retrieve the situation in Poland. There is no likelihood of the eastern front developing. in another form, though the Soviet policy is obscure and may bring a surprise. Official and semi-official declarations insist that Britain and France will refrain from rash offensives, and that time favours the Allies.. A short war was a possibility earlier, but the probability now is that there will be a long war, in which the Allies will settle down to the siege of Germany, arguing that the Germans cannot be better prepared than when they attacked Poland. If the Nazis fear a long war they must endeavour to bring about an early ending by an important move, but the choice is limited either to a move to break the Maginot Line or outflank the Maginot through neutral States which would not improve the position internationally. ' The Maginot Line can be reached only by attacking the positions which have been established Iby the French by their own ■ choosing.