The Archive · 1940

Scandinavian Version

Copenhagen, Feb. 7.

Unconfirmed Tumours are current throughout the Scandinavian countries that new German peace proposals may be discussed at a League Nations Committee meeting, which begins today, according to the Stockholm and Oslo correspondents of the "Extrabladt" yesterday.

The correspondents reported that some unspecified neutral will propose six-point programme upon which Field Marsha] Hermann Goering is reported to have suggested that Germany might agree to peace, Th reported proposals only" cliff their London version "in Reich will claim war reparations and demands immediate settlement of the colonial question, with the return of several of Germany's pre-war colonies, Tnformed sources said the rumours merely reflect the sincere desire for peace among a considerable section of the Scandinavian public. It 1s obvious, said the newspaper, that th Proposals contain much Scandinavian wishful thinking—United Press, Washington Pessimistic

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