NAZI PEACE TERMS

Evening Star, Issue 23725, 5 November 1940, Page 7

NAZI PEACE TERMS

' HITLER’S NEW PUN POSSIBLE DISCLOSURE IN SPEECH TO REICHSTAG A REMIT FNM AMERICA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrighl LONDON, November 4. It is reported that Hitler is planning, within a day or two, to present! * terms on which ho is willing to end the war. He will possibly disclose the terms in a speech to the Reichstag members. The Stats Department in Washings ton said it had not received official information, hat it had heard rumours that Hitler was making a speech : on. peace to the people. It added that the department had not received Hitler’s proposed terms#, as reported in a London newspaper; The New York ‘ Herald-Tribune.* commenting on Hitler’s round of Enroll peau visits, says; “ Evidence is accumulating that something has gone wrong with Hitler’s ‘new order.' Bombs and bloodshed are apparently* not all-powerful, and there is a definite suggestion,of a hitch in the proceedings. There is still no * new order' visible in Europe, only a fumbling kind of new war in the mountains of Epirus, which does not seem to he part of the German plan. The failure against Britain has been a severe chedk to irresistible military power, and the continuing failure to organise a partlyconquered Europe may yet prove a far more serious blow to the statesmanship which was to command the future for a thousand years.” PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA. ‘ The Tiroes,’ discussing Hitler’s apparent propaganda campaign to unsettle American opinion on the eve of the election, says: "Two particular lines of German propaganda can be de-, tected. The first develops the theme of the new European order which is soon to usher in the golden age, where there will be no capitalists and no Bolshevists, but all will join for the common good. The second shows that Hitler is trying to win back religious opinion, and it is revealed that Father Odo, otherwise Duke Carl of Wurtemburg, has been on a mission to the United States on behalf of Hitler for the purpose of persuading American Catholics that Hitler is one of them and is fighting to give them fresh fields for conversion to the Christian belief.”

HITLER'S SECRET EMISSARY "•WE-cwmiEn" LONDON, November 3. Hitler has sent a secret peace emissary to America, according to an article by Mr George Siocombe in the ‘ Sunday; Express;’ - The article declares that the emissary is Duke Charles Alexandei of Wurtemburg. who fought in the German army during" the Great War and afterwards- became a Benedictine monk under the name of Father Odo. - A report of an interview between Herr Hitler and the duke is also contained in the article. Herr Hitler said t “This is your important task in America.. You must persuade Americans that 1 intend to free Europe, not only of Communism, but also of militarism, and that I will impose a totalitarian peace.” The German “ doke-oum-priest,” say* the article, was apparently much impressed, for he said after the interview that Herr -Hitler had revealed himself as a great statesman and. more than that, as a superman. Mr Siocombe says that just before the outbreak of th® war this new emissary .visited, London on behalf of tb» hundreds of thousands of persecuted Roman Catholic® in Germany. He was received by Queen Mary, at Marlborough House, and was granted several hundred thousand pounds from Lord Baldwin’s fund. At the time of his visit to London the duke made no secret of his hostility to.the paganism of the Nasi regime. H® appears to have been won over bv , » statement by Herr Hitler that lie had never renounced the Roman Catholi# faith and was still a good Catholic. There is no news of the duke’s an* rival in America. FATHER ODO’S DENIAL NAS NEVER KEN HITLER NEW YORK, November 4. (Received November 5, at 12.15 p.tn.gl Father Odo, th® Bensdictins monk, who wos formerly the Duk® of Wurtembur*, denied the London reports that he w®s in th® United States as a peace emissary from Hitler. H® said his sol® purpose was to help Catholic refugee®. He had not been in Germany for seven years and had never sun Hitler. Mr Cordell Hull ®aid he had no in* formation concerning reports from Europe that peace proposals had bee outlined to the United State*. BRITISH PLANES OVER PARIS MESSAGES RY SKY'WMTINR . (By Radio.) DAVENTRY, November 5. British planes have recently flowt over Paris and indulged in sky-writing, tracing the words “courage” ant “ victory ” in smoke on the sky.

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