PEACE RUMOURS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 148, 20 December 1943, Page 4

PEACE RUMOURS.

INSPIRED BY GERMANY NEW YORK, December 19. The London bureau of the "New York Times'' says that the recent Allied. victories have resulted in a stream of peace rumours through neutral capitals, and the opinion is expressed ,that the rumours, as well as the peace feelers from which they spring-, are the visible result of the unrest among Germany's army leaders and big: industrialists. The Nazis are believed to be using the peace feelers to test the reaction of the Allies in preparation for the inevitable day when Germany is so badly whipped that she will have to be in order to continue to exist. The first organised campaign for a peace since Pearl Harbour has been launched in the United States with letters to all Congressmen signed by Mr. George Hartman, chairman of the j "Peace Now Movement," and lecturer at Harvard University. The campaign denounces the "cannibalistic slogan, of unconditional surrender" and demands a negotiated peace which would save Germany and Japan from an Allied invasion-. Congressmen almost unanimously described the movement as misguided and playing into the enemy's hands. Rioting- occurred in Helsinki early this week, started by Finnish soldiers on leave who did not wish to return to the- front, says the "New York Times" correspondent in Stockholm. According to private reports, bands of shouting soldiers paraded the city streets accosting, pedestrians, smashing shop windows, and clashing with city and military police. Revolvers and knives were used and several persons «were injured. "There is no foundation for a report that Bulgaria has submitted peace proposals through the Russian Government, offering to withdraw from the war on condition that she is allowed to take Macedonia and western Croatia," says Moscow radio.