NAZIS NERVOUS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21633, 9 February 1945, Page 3

NAZIS NERVOUS

‘BIG THREE’ DISCUSSION CALL TO PEOPLE FEARED DUTCH & WORLD PEACE (11 a.m.) LONDON. Feb. 8. It is inevitable that the meeting place for the "Big Three" should involve tile least travel for Marshal Stalin so that he might remain in close touch with Moscow and his armies, comments The Times’ diplomatic correspondent. ,»Tliat is why the Black Sea area was chosen. No enemy bombers are likely to find the place, which is equally inaccessible to press representatives. It is improbable that the three leaders will receive journalists as after the previous conferences. German propaganda lias shown itself highlv nervous about the possibility of a direct appeal from the three leaders to the German people. The German wireless warning to the people to beware of any manifesto, said that the three leaders, “like the wicked magicians in a fairy tale, are brewing poison to be served to the German people as peace.” There is no information in London to support the suggestion that an appeal will be made. It is felt in some quarters that it would be a mistake because it might obscure the fact that the German collapse is being brought about by military defeat, i Prior to the meeting, the Netheri lands Government transmitted to Marshal Stalin, Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt suggestions for improvement of the Dumbarton Oaks plan’ for maintaining world peace, including a proposal for strengthening the position of the smaller powers on the proposed security council and opposing tlie right of Britain, United States, Russia, China and France to judge all charges against themselves. The Dutch document indicated that unless the position of the small Powers was strengthened, the Netherlands might not enter the security organisations with satisfaction.