The Archive · 1940

Nazi Peace Proposals

No Indemnities, Return of Colonies, Surrender Of Polish Lands German Before Versailles Cited

London, Feb. 7. Foreign Office has been examining the latest German peace plan which Nazi agents have been circulating in various neutral capitals, says the "Daily Mail."

'The journal adds that Field 'Marshal Hermann Goering himself has been entrusted to launch this peace offensive but the lack of mention of Allied war aim' removes any possibility of its being taken into serious consideration.

The fact that such a peace plan should even exist, the paper states, is a proof of the present weakness of Nazi Germany's position, This peace plan was also published today in the "News-Chronicle" following a report from its New York correspondent who obtained his information from Stockholm.—Havas.

According to this plan, peace would be established on the following basis:

1, Neither side would ask for demnities from the other.

2. Economic and colonial problems will be discussed and settled by means of a conference, '3. Sudeten regions will remain German.

4. Poland will give up to the Reich all' the territory occupied by the Reich before the Versailles Treaty.

plebiscite will be held in Aus-trio under the control of France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy.

A committee of British, French Germans Removed from Portuguese Liner Capetown, Feb, 7.

Six German subjects sus pected of hostile activities were Femoved from the Portuguese liner Nyassa yesterday by a British warship, which intercepted the liner off the Cape coast. The Germans were landed at Capetown under and German delegates will settle the fate of Poland and Czechosk Havas.

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