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Show WllID Washington, D. C. NAZI PEACE FEELERS Reports that the German generals revolted against Hitler only aftet peace negotiations with Russia failed, have caused Washington diplomatic dip-lomatic sources to reveal that, on two previous occasions, German peace feelers were extended to Russia. Rus-sia. In fact, there was a very deep fear in U. S. army-navy circles that Russia might be tempted by these earlier offers, especially during the I days when no second front had been I started and when Stalin was bitter j against the Allies for not starting it. Nazi peace offer number 1 was j made several months after Stalin I grad, during the early winter of 1943. I The peace proposal was made by the Japanese ambassador in Mos-' Mos-' cow, who, being neutral, was In a ! position to lay the matter before I Foreign Commissar Molotoff. Just I what was in the Nazi olive branch j is not definitely known, though Hit-I Hit-I ler was reported ready to give back I to the Russians all of their pre-1939 territory except the Ukraine. Molotoff is reported to have torn up the offer and thrown it Into the waste-basket. Nazi peace offer number 2 was made in the summer of 1943 in a villa on the outskirts of Stockholm. It was made by Hans Thomsen, German' Ger-man' ambassador to Sweden and for-! for-! mer charge d'affaires in Washington. Washing-ton. Thomsen, who speaks perfect English, was born of a Norwegian father, and married a Hungarian who was openly bitter against Hitler and constantly damned him at Washington Wash-ington dinner parties. Washington hostesses never knew whether Frau Thomsen really hated Hitler or was putting on an act to show that there could be freedom of expression among Germans. At any rate, Hitler later gave her husband a position of great trust as his own personal interpreter, then sent him to Sweden, where Thomsen Thom-sen handled the peace discussion with the Russians. The Stockholm olive branch also was rebuffed by the Russians, though they didn't hesitate to let the Allies know that something like this was being talked about even intimated that, if the second front wasn't opened before long, the next olive branch might be more acceptable. Churchill never took any stock in these intimations, claimed the Russians were bluffing and would never make a separate peace with the Nazis. Ills thesis was that Stalin would be thrown out of Russia If he did. This was one reason why Churchill kept pulling bark from starting a second front. Roosevelt, however, felt that (1) it was only fair to the Russians Rus-sians to carry out what we had promised them and the world as early as 1942; that (2) a second front was the one way to keep Germany busy on two fronts and end the war In a hurry. . DESTRUCTION OF THE ROBOT Authentic London reports are not I too encouraging regarding destruc-i destruc-i tion of the robot bomb. Greatest success has been in knocking it out' in the air with fighter planes. How-j How-j ever, it takes a robot just 3V minutes min-utes to cross the channel, so the fighters have to work with terrific I speed. (Total time from the bomb's 1 launching until the time it hits London Lon-don is estimated at 10 minutes.) If they knock the bomb down over London, it explodes with just as much damage as if they had let it alone, so there is only one place to go after it over the channel. Once a robot escapes the fighters and passes over London, anti-aircraft fire is stopped and the only thing to do Is to let the bomb take its course and explode wherever it i hits. Furthermore, It is not easy to knock down a robot over the channel. Gunfire must strike its nose in order or-der to explode It. A cannon ball in the body of the robot plane, how-I how-I ever, will usually knock it out. Some j intrepid fighters have flown up very , close the robot cannot fire back j and tipped up Its wing with the j wing of the fighter. I NOTE - The Germans recently I have prrferled a clock which goes I off Inside the robot about ten min-I min-I ules after it leaves France, or about the time It is over London. This clock turns the robot's tall rudder so that it makes an eerie, graceful curve ns If someone wite inside ' piloting it, or ns if It were radio-controlled. radio-controlled. This sudden turn Is calculated cal-culated by the Germans to send It In a different direction from that In which the Ilrilish are preparing to ' receive It. 1 j ROIIOT ROM IIS l LONDON ! The uncensored diplomatic pouch from London reports that the proportion pro-portion of Americans being killed by Hitler's robot bombs is greater than the proportion of British. This is bemuse Americans in London haven't learned to adjust themselves to living In a city where death lurks at every corner. Bemuse Americans aren't trained In watching fur means of protection la the street, they lose that split second's sec-ond's time necessary to get out of Hie way of flying glass and bricks. |