NAZI REGIME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23545, 4 January 1940, Page 8

NAZI REGIME

RESHUFFLING PLAN PART OF PEACE MOVE' FRENCH 'JOURNAL'S STORY By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright PiAiRIS, Jan. 2 A plan for the ingenious reshuffling of the Nazi regime as part of a spring peace move is published in Le Petit Parisien, with reserve, from a correspondent in Italy. The plan, like previous, manoeuvres, aims at leaving Germany in possession of' the essential part of her conquests. Hitler would become President, a post similar to that formerly held by von Hindenburg, Goering would be Chancellor, and Himmler, Goebbels, Ley and others would disappear. „ . Foreign affairs would, bq entrusted to a 1 professional diplomat, probably Herr von Mackensen, at present Ambassador to Italy. Dr. Schacht would bo reinstated as Minister of Economy. Tho new administration would renounce self-sufficiency and restore world trade, observe "political distance" from Russia and fix tho sizo of Czechoslovakia and Poland by arbitration by a high personage. Le Petit Parisien says Gorman industrialists would welcome any interior solution likely to prevent a slipping toward Bolshevism.

FEDERATION PLAN IDEA GAINS PROMINENCE BUILDING UP SENTIMENT ORGANISED EFFORT BEGUN (Received January 3, 6 p.in.) LONDON, Jan. 3 The idea of a European federation is receiving increasing prominenco since M. Daladier's speech on December 29, says the Paris correspondent of tho Associated Press of Great Britain. An organised ellort to build up sentiment for such a federation is reported to havo begun. The French hope that it might eventually become world wide. An authorised spokesman says the idea of a federation opposes Germany's ambition to absorb other countries. The system would bo modelled on the existing Anglo-French collaboration. Newspapers and radio commentators echoed these statements. The news announcer of tho British Broadcasting Corporation ended his reference to Mr. Chamberlain's action in telephoning M. Daladier, with the statement: "Mr. Chamberlain asked 31. Daladier to act as spokesman because the British Parliament is not sitting.''