AXIS SATELLITES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1943, Page 5

AXIS SATELLITES

SEPARATE PEACE HINTS

LONDON, February 14. There is no disposition in London to receive seriously reports that some of Germany's satellites are putting out suggestions for a separate peace, says "The Times" diplomatic correspondent. Rumour is particularly busy, with Finland and Hungary.

It is not surprising, now that the war is not going according to plan, that certain circles in both countries are looking for a way out, but the Casablanca conference "unconditional surrender" declaration was made in anticipation of such peace manoeuvres. The United Nations are not going to have their attention distracted from the worsening foulness which Hitler and his partners are inflicting on Europeans.

The London correspondent of the "New York Times," Mr. Sulzberger, says reports from underground sources indicate that there is growing antiNazi feeling in Rumania. As an example of this, German customers of a fashionable Bucharest night club recently requested the band to play the song "Wir Fahren Gegen England" ("We march against England"). The band complied, but Rumanian patrons rose and sang "Tipperary," whereupon the Gestapo arrested 150 persons and charged them with "leading a dissolute life."

The opposition is kept alive by several clandestine anti-Nazi radio stations, one of which is reported to be supported by General Antonescu (the Chief of the Rumanian State). Also there is increasing passive resistance by high Government officials, several of whom were recently arrested.