RICH LANDOWNER’S VIEW

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 October 1941, Page 6

RICH LANDOWNER’S VIEW

PAMPHLET BY DUKE OF BEDFORD POSSIBILITY Ol NEGOTIATED PEACE TALK WITH NAZI OFFICIALS IN DUBLIN (Rec. 1.15 p.m.) London, Oct. 22. The Duke of Bedford, who is one of Britain’s richest landowners, has just published a pamphlet entitled “What a Game,” in which he says: “We cannot refuse to negotiate with Hiller because we dislike him.” Commentators describe (he pamphlet as one of the most remarkable publications of the war, and a successor to the notorious “G«V‘many’s Peace Terms” leaflet, for which the Duke, then the Marquis of Tavistock, was responsible in the spring of last year. The Duke in an interview said: “I am not a Quisling but pro-British and have acted in all sincerity in what I believed fo be the best interests of the country.” He admitted that during his visit to Dublin in 1940 he saw members of the German Legation and explored the possibility of a negotiated peace, and received an assurance that the Germans were prepared to accept reasonable terms. If the Government had followed uP his conversations Britain’s position would be much less grave to - day. The situation was such now that ho could not see he could do anything more. He did not claim to have a considerable political following in Britain, but believed there was a growing opinion in favour of a negotiated peafte U.P.A