GERMAN EFFORTS FOR

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 97, 20 January 1944, Page 5

GERMAN EFFORTS FOR

PEACE Moscow Quotes New Story

(Received January 19, 8.30 p.m.) JJONDON, January 10. Moscow radio last night broadcast a Tass agency dispatch from (London, dated January 16, reporting a story which was published in the “Sunday Times” about alleged German peace proposals being made to Turkey two months ago. Turkey, according to the Ankara correspondent of the “Sunday Times,” refused to pass on these terms to the Allies, and similar proposals were then made in Stockholm and Lisbon.

One proposal was that Germany would renounce her claim to colonies if given limited freedom of action in the east. The Tass report was an accurate reproduction of the “Sunday Times” article, and was given the heading, “British correspondent on German peace proposals.”

“PRAVDA” STORY’S SEQUEL

LONDON, January 19. Moscow radio last, night broadcast the British Foreign Office’s denial of the rumour quoted by the “Pravda” that two leading Britous had' interviewed Herr von Ribbentrop in Spain to discuss details for a separate peace. “Pravda” has also published the denial.

The British Charge d’Affaires in Moscow had drawn the attention of the -Soviet Foreign Office to the official denial of the report. The Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain, writing earlier, said that the British denial when it was published would probably end the affair as far as- the Russians were concerned. He added: “The rumour will go down in history as one of the sensations and mysteries of the war. One of the burning questions is why ‘Pravda’ printed .the rumour. It was not printed by accident. Accidents like that do not happen in the. Soviet Press. The rumour has hardly created friendly feeling between -the Russians and the British.”