TERMS WITH NAZIS
BRITISH PEER'S ADVOCACY 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 can't ' refuse to negotiate with Hitler because , we dislike him." Commentators describe the pamphlet as one of the most remarkable publications of the war and the successor to the notorious leaflet on Germany's peace terms for which the Duke, then Marquess of Tavistock, was responsible in the spring of last year. The Duke, in an interview, said: "J am not a Quisling, but am pro-British. I haye acted in all sincerity in what J believed the best interests of the country." He admitted that during a visit to Dublin in 1940 he saw members of the German Legation arid explored the possibility of a negotiated peace. lie also said he received an assurance that the Germans were prepared to accept, reasonable terms. If the Government had followed up his conversations Britain's position would have been much less grave to-day. The situation was such now, lie said, that he did not see that he could do anything more. He did not claim to have a considerable political following in Britain, but believed there was growing opinion in favour of a negotiated peace.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24104, 24 October 1941, Page 8
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