The Archive · 1940

British Liberal Leader

Gives Peace Terms — Destruction of Nazidom to Be First Essential

London, Feb. 24.

The "utter destruction of the Nazi Government" is one of the essential conditions of an armistice, Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the British Liberal Party, declared in a public speech today.

Sir Archibald gave three "essential conditions" for an armistice in the present European War. They were:

1. The utter destruction of the Nazi Government, simultaneously depriving Germany of her military means to threaten the peace of her 2. Restitution to the Czechs and Poles; and, 3. German evacuation of Austria. Sir Archibald also warned the Government not to allow the "fate of Czechoslovakia and Poland to overtake Finland."—United Press.

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