PEACE PROPOSALS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20186, 2 March 1940, Page 7

PEACE PROPOSALS

LONDON SUSPICIOUS TAVISTOCK AS ENVOY DOUBTFUL ASSOCIATES NOTORIOUS “HAW HAW” (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 3 10 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 29. According to reports current in London, “peace proposals” were recently brought to the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, by Lord Tavistock and are said to eminate from the German Legation in Dublin. It was confirmed on Thursday night that Lord Halifax did receive certain proposals from Lord Tavistock and was concerned to ascertain how far they were genuine. The specious attractiveness of the supposed German peace proposals is noted here to be in marked contrast with Herr Hitler’s recent speeches. In this connection it is recalled that Lord Tavistock has in the past eight years been actively associated with communism, pacifism, social credit, fascism, and national socialism. It is further noted that closely associated with Lord Tavistock in the British council for Christian settlement in Europe, of which body he is the chairman and which sponsored the publicity for these “peace proposals,' are John Beckett, one time prominent member of the British Union of Fascists, and William Joyce, who left Britain for Germany a few days before the outbreak of the war and who has since been employed in Germany to broadcast anti-British propaganda over the German wireless. It is believed in London that the notorious “Lord Haw Haw’’ is the same William Joyce. In view of the source from which the peace proposals are said to emanate and the character of their British sponsors, informed quarters here are inclined to attach but little importance to them.