HITLER’S PEACE PLAN

Grey River Argus, 20 March 1940, Page 7

HITLER’S PEACE PLAN

FOUR EUROPEAN ZONES Under Stresa Idea AMERICAN PAPER’S ACCOUNT. [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received .March 19, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 18- . The “New York Times’s” Rome correspondent says: xierr Hitler’s original peace proposal, as it was understood at the Vatican, was as follows:— Firstly: General, simultaneous, and Immediate disarmament. Secondly: A return to the Four Power Pact in the form of a new European Directory: the substituting for the League of Nations of the four States in the Pact; the dividing of Europe into zones of influence; the inaugurating of an anti-Bolshevik policy aimed at the liberation of Russia, by arms if necessary, from Communism.

Thirdly: The recognition of absolute religious freedom, after Germany has forced all of the Jews in Germany to emigrate; their emigration to be under the direction of England. Italy and France, and the Jews to go to Palestine, to Ethiopia and to Madagascar respectively. Fourthly: .Absolute freedom of trade, and of access to raw materials, with close economic co-operation with the United; States, and the facilitation of the emigration of Italians and Germans.

Fifthly: The restitution, within 2J years, to Germany of her colonies, or | the provision of equal colonial compensation, or, at least, the protection of German emigration to determined areas in Africa. Sixthly: (1) The reconstruction of an Independent Poland: (2) Poland to be composed, primarily, of the central zone of the Polish territory, with ten million inhabitants: (3) The port of Gdynia to be a Polish free port: (4) Also there is to be Polish free trade through the port of Danzig: (5) The general facilitation of Polish communication to the sea;.(6) The settle ment of the Polish frontiers by an internationally-controlled plebiscite. (7) The Polish and Danubian minority problems to be settled by transmigration.

Seventhly: The Czechs, Slovaks and Magyars to constitute a tripartite State, this to be allied to the German Reich: such State to enjoy industrial and communication privileges in the Reich for 25 years.

Eightly: Austria to remain in the German Reich

Ninthly: A Danubian Federation to be constituted as a Customs Union, with the equalising of th,-? interest of the large and small Danube Basin States; and Italy, Germany, Roumania, Yugoslavia, Bohemia, Slovakia and Hungary participating in such Customs thereon.

Tenthly: The Balkan status quo io be maintained. Eleventhly: Free Customs transit for Italian goods through Djibouti, thus anticipating the expiration of the Suez Canal Convention, and also, a new status for the Italians in Tunisia. AN EXPLANATION. (Received March 20, 12.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 19. An explanation of the phrase “Herr Hitler’s original peace proposal,” as referred to by the Rome correspondent of the' “New York Times,” it should be stated that the phrase refers to a*, peace proposal which Pope Pius XII. heard from Herr Von Ribbentrop at their recent meeting, and which the American Envoy, Mr Sumner Weiles heard from Herr Hitler at Berlin.

German Claim WESTERN PLUTOCRACY THE AGGRESSOR. (Received March 19, 8 p.m.) LONDON. Marcli 13. The Official German News Agency isued a statement last night, but gave no details of the Brenner Pass meeting. The statement referred to the “Western Powers’ lack of understanding of Nazism and Fascism, as shown by the foreign speculation about the meeting.”

It added: England and France still do not understand Herr Hitler's speech of October 6 last, which defined the principles of Germany’s attitude to the present conflict.” The statement continued that the enemy’s plutocratic statesmen biutally rejected this last word of the Fuehrer’s, while thev simultaneously were proclaiming: their own criminal war aims. Since then the situation as between the Western Powers and the German Reich, which they attacked, became completely clear. HITLER NOT PACIFIST! LONDON. March 1.9. I A later Berlin Radio broadcast' states: “The world’s Press assumes that the'Fuehrer and Signor Mussolini met to consider peace proposals, hut this is. not.so. The world’s Press, still does not understand that the: Fuehrer has decided to wage the wji| to a victorious end.”