CUNNING NAZI PLAN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 262, 5 October 1942, Page 5

CUNNING NAZI PLAN

VERSION OF HESS PROPOSALS, NEW YORK, Oct. 3.

Hitler sent Hess to Britain as his personal envoy, proposing that Britain should join the tripartite alliance against tho Soviet Union. This is now admitted for the first time from a Nazi source. The Dagsposten, which is a Berlin-owned newspaper in Stockholm, says that the flight was a magnanimous Hitlerian gesture which Britain failed to acknowledge. The paper added: "The British cannot any longer be considered gentlemen, because, contrary to Hcss's expectation, they refused facilities for him to return to Germany at the conclusion of his mission."

The Dagsposten explained that Hitler, undaunted by the British refusal to entertain tho peace offer which he had made in the Reichstag in July, 1940, decided with the approval of Italy and Japan to try to make Britain see the light. Hess proposed that Britain should participate in an anti-Bolshevik war, after which Russia would be partitioned in several national smaller States, the Reich to control the Ukraine and the Caucasian oilfields. Britain would be guaranteed all her mandates in Middle Asia, and Germany's former colonies would be returned. Japan would receive the . easternmost part of Asiatic Russia, together with oil and other raw materials from Malacca and the East Indies. All help to "Bolshevik China" would be cancelled. If the terms were agreeable, Germany was willing to guarantee all British 'possessions to the extent desired by Britain.

The Dagsposten asserted that President Roosevelt vetoed the project after a telephone conversation with Mr Churchill on the ground that unity of Europe against the Soviet Union would make- it independent of America.