HITLER’S PEACE

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1940, Page 5

HITLER’S PEACE

j THE PROPOSALS

AMERICAN PAPER’S ACCOUNT,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

NEW YORK, March 18. , The “New York Times’s” Rome correspondent says: Herr Hitler’s i original peace proposal, as it was understood at the Vatican, was as follows: — Firstly: General, simhltaneous, and

immediate disarmament. *L- 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 inauguration 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 Frapce, 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 dose economic co-oporation with tlie United States, and the facilitation ol the. of { -Italians and Germans. Fifthly restitution,. within 20 years, to ‘Germany of her colonies, or the provision of equal colonial coms pensatiou, 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 settlement:. of the Polish frontiers by an interliationallytcontrdlled plebiscite; (7) The Polish and Danubiau minority problems to be settled by transmigration. ’..'.Seventhly: The Czechs, Slovaks, and Makars .to constitute a tripartite State, this to be allied to the German Reich; such State to enjoy industrial and communication privileges in tlie Reich for 25 years. Eighthly: Austria to remain in the German Reich. Ninthly: A Danubian Federation to be constituted as a Customs Union, with the equalising of the interest of the large and; small., Danube Basin State's; and Italy, Germany, Roumania, Yugoslavia, Bohemia, Slovakia, and* Hungary.' participating in such

Customs' thereon. Tenthly :• The Balkan status quo to \ be maintained. ■ X A-Eleventhly: Free Customs transit for Italian goods through Djibouti, thus anticipating the expiration of the Suez Canal Convention, and also a uew status for the Italians in Tunisia. In 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 r phrase refers to a _ peace' propPsaT which Pope Pius Xll. heard from Herr Von Ribbcntrop at their - recent meeting, and which, the Anferican Envoy, Mr Sumner Welles lieatd from Herr Hitler at Berlin.

GERMAN CLAIM. _ LONDON, March 18

The Official German News Agency issued" a statement last night, but gave no details of the Brenner Pass meeting."'“The 'statement referred "to the “Western Powers” lack of understandoi'Nazism and Fascism, as shown by the" foreign speculation about the meeting’j, ;V; h, • IE added‘England, and France still do not understand Hei;r Hitler’s speech of Octplrer, 6th, '.last, which defined the. principles of Germany’s attitude to tiie present conflict.” The .statement continued that the enemy’s plutocratic statesmen brutally rejected.this last word.of the Fuehrer’s, while they simultaneously wore 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. - , -