Is Hitler preparing another peace move The mayor of New York, Mr. Fiorello La Guardia, declared a few days ago in Washington that "a representative of the German Government disclosed proposals to representatives of the peace movement in this country, with the instruction to try them out and prepare the foundation for their aeceptance." That statement taken together "with the speech of Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary for the Interior, that "we have our defeatists and appeasers, Hitler's conscious and unconscious tools, who would make us soft and malleable against the coming of Hitler's angels of hell," may have by no means inconsiderable significance. There cannot be the slightest doubt that Hitler is ready at all times for such a peace as would leave him with all the spoils he has at present accumulated, permit him another period of preparation for further aggression and, perhaps, weaken the will to resistance which is becoming daily stronger in the lands which it is taken for granted he would ultimately threaten.
Both Mr, Ickes and Mayor La Guardia are equally convinced that subterranean influences are at work in the United States first to dissuade the country from taking all steps necessary in its own defence, and to make public opinion ready to accept, or at least favourably consider, some peace overtures which Hitler will undoubtedly make when he thinks the time ripe. Such a time would be if and when he: succeeded' in destroying, as he has said he intends to do, the Russian armies. That he has not yet done, and it may be a very, very long time indeed before in fact he does—if ever. But that is no reason why German agents in the United States, and if what Mr. La Guardia says is correct that is what they are doing,—should not energetically pursue the task of endeavouring to sway public opinion away from the present determination to go all out in self-defence. Nothing would suit Hitler's Book better than that his agents, with the assistance of such people as Col. Lindbergh should bring about infernal disorganization and. demoralization in the United States.
But there are no indications, that. they will succeed. The various polls which are constantly taken in the United States show that the heart of the "American people is firm on the subject of ug Hitler and Hitlerism out it of the hemisphere.
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