DIVISION OF EUROPE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15165, 5 October 1942, Page 3

DIVISION OF EUROPE

HOW HITLER PLANNED United Dress Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. October 3. Hitler sent Hess to Britain as a personal envoy proposing that Britain should join a tripartite alliance against the Soviet: This is now admitted foi the first time from a Nazi source in Dagsposten, which is a Berlin-owned Stockholm newspaper. it says the flight was a magnanimous Hitlerian gesture which Britain failed to acknowledge, and added: “The British cannot longer be considered gentlemen because contrary to Hess’s expectation, they refused facilities for him to return to Germany at the conclusion of hU mission.

The Dagsposten explained that Hitler, undaunted by the British refusal to entertain his peace offer, mad,, 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 whereafter Russia would be partitioned in several national smaller States, the Reich to control the Ukraine and the Caueasion oilfields. Britain would be guaranteed all her mandates in Middle Asia and Germany’s former colonies would be returned. Japan would receive the easter most part of Asiatic Russia together with oil and other raw materials from Malacca and the. East In dies. Ail help to Bolshevik China would be cancelled. If the terms were agreeable. Germany would be

willing to guaranty all the British possessions to the extent desired by Britain. The Dagsposten asserts that President Roosevelt vetoed the project after a telephone conversation with Mr Churchill on the grounds that the unity of Europe against the Soviet would make it independent of America.