AMERICAN HOPE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23602, 11 March 1940, Page 7

AMERICAN HOPE

DOOR NOT CLOSED MEDIATORY ACTIVITY GOERING'S RADIO TO FRIEND (Received March 10, 7.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 9 The President's secretary, Mr. Stephen Early, told correspondents to-day that Mr. Roosevelt had not closed the door on mediatory activity by the United States in the RussoFinnish conflict, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Times. This statement is regarded as making more significant a speech of Senator Key Pittman, in which he proposed a 30-day armistice to enable neutrals to offer their services in reaching a settlement. Mr. Pittman added: "We realise the difficulties in approaching belligerents in the heat of war, but, unless reasonable peace terms are formulated and an armistice is declared before the summer the war is likely to continue to a finish." State Department officials insist that the offer of November 29 is technically open, but the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, told journalists that the United States had not been asked to mediate. It is revealed in diplomatic circles that Mr. Axel Wenner-Grcn, the Swedish industrialist, accepted the role of go-between at the instigation of his friend Goering, who radioed in code to Mr. Wenner-Gren, who was yachting near Nassau, stating that Germany was anxious for Russo-Finnisli pence.

THREE MARKS EACH BRITISH LEAFLETS SOLD HITLER YOUTH IN VIENNA (Received March 10, '7.40 p.m.) PARIS, March 9 The Hitler Youth Organisation was ordered to clean up the streets of Vienna after the recent leaflet raid by British airmen. Then they began a brisk sale of the leaflets for three marks each. They gave the excuse to the authorities that they were selling them for the Winter Help Fund.

ARRIVAL IN TURKEY ALLIED AIR LEADERS (Received March 10, 7.20 p.m.) ANKARA, March 9 Air Marshal Sir William Mitchell, air officer Commander in Chief in the Mkklle East, and General Jaunaud, Commander of the French Air Force in the Eastern . Mediterranean, have arrived in Ankara, and military talks have opened.