October 7, 1939 HITLER LOOKS TO NEUTRALS TO END CONFLICT:

THIS WASREPORTED TODAY, OCTOBER 7, 1939:

Hopes Some Neutral or
Neutrals Will Move to
Bring Conflict to End

Fuehrer Declares in Address to Reichstag That

He Wants Peace, But Will Fight if Proposals
Rejected; Chancellor Envisions Conference of
European Nations to Ensure Peace in Future

By Associated Press

BERLIN, Oct. 6.—An authorized source said tonight that Adolf Hitler would accept an armistice if proposed by President Roosevelt with the view to a general European settlement. Hitler's address, this source said, essentially was an "appeal to neutrals to consider the present European situation as one of peaceful war in which 'their own vital interests would be seriously affected if the war continued, rather than one of conflict to be settled between two warring groups."

In other words, he said. Hitler would look favorably upon intervention by a neutral or neutrals to bring the war to an end. Hitler offered peace in Europe or a fight in which "I do not doubt for a single moment that Germany will be victorious." "Let those who consider war to be the better solution reject my outstretched hand," he said—and authoritative sources indicated he expected an answer in less than |a week'

 

Allies Will

Examine
Proposal
Moscow Silent, Italy
Hopeful, Senators
Doubt Sincerity

 

Victory Only

Peace, Says
Deladier

War Will Be Fought

To Finish, French
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