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"DID RUDOLF
RUDOLF HESS PEACE PLAN OR NOT?"
Government Policy Towards Incident Criticised In House Of Commons
LONDON,
BRING A
SIR RONALD CAMPBELL IN ENGLAND
LONDON, June 20 (Router) The British Minister in Yugoslavia, who had sir Ronald Campbell, June 20 (Reuter)-"The complete and apparently
for been a prisoner in Italy
DVA directed silence in the Press and elsewhere about Hess"
weeks repacked on in the Blouse of Commons yesterday by the laboNE
arrived in England last member. Mr Samuel Silverman. #1 Lord
Beaverbrook
WAS
GENERAL
Considerable Curiosity As To Nazi Anxiety For
Pact With Turkish Govt.
ANKARA Jusse 20 (Router)—"We Turks will never go to Vienna" is a
statement beard on all hands following the signa- ture of the German-Turkish Pact. and Turks are anxious that It should be made clear that Turkey remains a friend also of Britain.
In view of the present geographical and military situation. with German troops near her frontier, the new agreement has obvious advantages for Turkey
she
Turkish policy is to remain non-belligerent aud she has no aggressive intentions against anybody. night, Reuter ears, Mr. Silverman coutenued that
hid landed by
On the nad taken a Spitfire and
Finally the agreement may lead other hand, He left Italy about a week ago
German- have made
been nervna lest Germany might to some parachute ai Berchtesgaden. the Germans would
expansion or Lisbon and arrived here via
1.0
Turkish trade, though it is unlike touch better use of the incident than we have made of the mess
gether with other British Consular, My to drive enst across Turkey.
ly that the harvest will permit the sensation
officials and certain officers of The new part removes this pos-
immediate future export of ceretds which the Der- sibility for the the British Counci
fold th
Bulted
He asked whether the incident was being used doubt and mystification in the minds of the German population or of our TAWOL. Mr. Silveranan asked the direct question Hess bring a
prace plan or not?" The als Asked what Mr Chune|| 111 M.
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cause
"Did
Mr Adams
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He fell into the bands of the and therefore, as it blocks one of mans need so badly Italans when Italian troops 00- East. It is held to be of value to
cupled Berzognovle, in
on April 19.
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OPPOSITE VIEW
Lat
The Conservative member MI whole position was traught with Hengy strauss Look The Totany
statements
and opposite suppression
Mr Stokes
whatever statement of Say take about the Archibald Sincluz on May 22 that which Hess left
Halton the Duke
perhaps unire he luded t
Pip
INCORRECT STATEMENTS
Dalma
approaches to
Britain
The
Middle
OP
NAZI PROMISEN
It is, however, unlikely to move the suspicion with Germany had been viewed and the Turks know exactly what German promises and assurances
Te-
which
here
Considerabic curiosity exists a The American Evebassy in Rome
anxious worked hard in arranging with the to why Germany was s
safe to sign the pact under any condi. tallar Government for the passage to England of the British tions and some observers suggest mean.
that she wants in ussure that The agreement will be used by Minister and those with him
Turkey remain neutral in the Goebbels as a diplomatic triumph everit of a GermGE attack
to offset AXIS reverbes In the Russia.
United States. but that
Turkey STATEMENT IGNORED remains faithful to her alliance
The fact
Tass with Britain is seen in the clear that he istest
preamble agency statement
Soviet statement in UTI
been vir which the Turks insisted, refusing relations has
the ignored hy
German to sign If the clause was not in-
and radio ALU
persistent cludea, will shortly
VIEW BO
that fairly and rightly as a prisoner of argued assumption "you war with all the attendant
circumstances in eumstances. Germany, the ad I was nonsense to suggest that German
tually leaving Germany Hess is at Chequers
press
cir-
dvantages recognise Bess and had never met guessing are overwhelming *
Other conjectures as to the rea- hlru
Mr Strauss contended that the son for Hess coming here could be Government's ellener had led the left to the imagination of indivi- Germans Into a palpable lle and dual members and members were their imagina- Inte
contradictions, given full rein to whereby they had lost prestige i tion today. every country in the world
Nic
alt stokes eft.plns:sed that was making no imputation against the Lake at Hamilton and asked Duke shold not know why the Hess. But lu charged the
with making crnnent
Goy Incorrent
Mr
The Causervative member.
statemehi
Vyvan Adairs,
ernment Lu
fantastic
DUKE OF HAMILTON
Mr Butler said that he unable
to satisfy curiosity reasons of public interest.
was
for
rumours that Hter demand the return of BessaraÐIN
concessions.
the
"MUTUAL CONFIDENCE.
Un
(Reuter) -
20 LONDON, June Lo Rumania and large economic Mutual confidence" is the key- lend weight to this note of telegrams exchanged bc- suggestion, while the pact removes tween Fresident Inonu of Turkey
tne yet another explanation for
and Herr Hitler on the occasion presence of targe German troop of the conclusion of the German- concentrations
the Russian Turkish Treaty frontiers.
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of of Hamilton knew Hess or whether HEAVY BRITISH key
GOVERNMENT REPLY
The Government s
With reply Jude by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Mr. R. A. Buller,, who declined to depart from the On the paint whether the Duke blamed the Canv allowing the Ger. Government's present policy
taken declared correspondence had mans to be first with the allega sence about Hess.
M: Butler sald that he or before. was no That that there
mystery tion that
confusion about Hess, who is a had nothing to add to Sir Archi- theory, he said, is still widely en-
01 Wi And 18 being bald Sinclair's statement of May tertained among the bewildered prisoner British public whereas Hess is no treated as such and will continue 22. inore mid than Judas Iscariot or to be so treated. Satan
Hess was mad.
He
Mr. Ellverman interposed to ask
place!
There was substantial point as
to why. If the American Govelar
ATTACK ON BREST
S
President Inonu's telegram, published here. sajo te #gree- ment "sets a seal to true And between Tur. sincere friendship
Germany" and
and says: "Our two countries and peoples on this day enter into an era of mutual confidence with the firm intent always to maintain it,"
HITLER'S REPLY
whether he was being treated as a ment was informed British public Large Fires Started as
civilian prisoner Dr Marshal.
H а
Field, opinton should not be
Better than shener would have been our ruthless use of this gift from Hell, but the Ministry Ol Information haa made nu more Mr Butler said that he was be- use of it than an oyster
ing treated as an officer--perfectly
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LONDON, June 20 (Reuter)
**
declares: Hitler, in reply.
certain that our two countries now enter upon an era of lasting mutual confidence."
Telegrams were also exchanged
as well There had been endless diplomatic exchanges between Britain and other countries Strong forces of British bombers between M. Sarajoglu and Herr throughout the war and it has on Wednesday night attacked ports Von Ribbentrop. been a source of sorrow that I am in not in position to divulge them to Parliament,
PUBLIC MORALE
north-west Germany and the naval base at Brest where the bat- tleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and a Hipper class cruiser are
berthed.
"Thr British public should
Despite variable and often cloudy share, a lui as pussble, the Inner weather the British aircrafı, reach thoughts of the Government, buted their objectives, says the Air in this case. we do not believe Ministry news service. that we have anything to which would make for an proved etter of the public. we do not believe that by saying anything we are ir any way upsetting public murale."
say Heavy bombs were seen to burst im-across the docks at Brest
and at! and Bremen large fires were started.
not
Dealing with points of general policy ra'sed in the debate. Mr. Butler declared that it
was the Government's desire to & Vold making idealistle statements about the future which may not be rea- lised. "We are in the middle of a tough job and are determined to see it through.
"Reference has been made the Cliveden Sot and the
to
STRANGE WEATHER
SWEDISH COMMMENT
STOCKHOLM, June 20 (Reuter) in Berlin, the conclusion of the German-Turkish Treaty la regard- ed as meaning Turkey's inclusion in the politles system of the Axia, says the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm Tidningen.
With regard to the declaration in the Pact that earlier Turkish engagements are not affected, the correspondent says: "Political quarters in Berlin interpret this One pilot said: 'The weather as a meaning that if contrary to was strange, The North Sea was expectation the Von Papen pact hidden by haze and we could only comes into conflict with earlier Ittrestles, then naturally the most just detect the German coast, was queer to see anti-aircraft shells recent document will have pre- bursting above it as if coming ference." from nowhere.
"Despite all this obscurity, there were occasional gaps through which we could check
NATURAL INTEREST "Despite Turkey's natural in- terest in Syria" adds the corres-
our ap- proach to the river and the docks. Dondent, "it is stated here that it is wrong to suppose that the pact "At Bremen, one of our bombers
will affect military operations Holy was attacked four times by an there, these being affairs of the Roman Empire. They are both enemy fighter and before long a
French. Berlin does not think dead and may they so remain. burst drove it off, Tracer bullets
France will be. obliged to seex We want to build not only a new were seen enter the fighter which
German ald” set in this country but a new fell away obviously in trouble. Europe and that is a job we can "The British bomber returned pursue without making grandiose home without further interfer- | statements."
ence,"
WITHDRAWAL OF US. CONSULAR
"It is considered certath in Ber- lin," says the correspuenit, "that Turkey did not sign without con- sulting the Soviet.
"I the Soviet advised the Turks to sign, this is regarded as a good omen for a Russo-German settle- ment which is expected to even-
STAFFS DEMANDED BY GERMANY toate at the end of the present
LONDON, June 20 (Reater:-"Much incriminating evidence of offences on the part of American representatives” is conta'n- ed in the German note to the United States demanding the withdrawal of American Consular staffs from Germany and Ger- man ocupied territory, says the official German news agency (ast night.
It says the German Foreign Offloe has "a mass of material on Intrigues Injurious to the State and has prohibited the news service of the American Consulaten.”
week."
MALTA RAIDERS ARE INTERCEPTED
CAIRO, June 20 (Reuter)-Enemy. aircraft approached Malta on Wed- nesday on two occasions, but owing to interception by British
The German nows agency men- It mentions charges of espionage, fighters, raids did not materialise. tione a number of American Con-Jon German troop movements In Instead, one Italian Aghter、 was aular officials by name,
Norway and anti-German pro shot down and two others were "Thus," it states, "the Consul paganda by a former employee of badly damaged. General in Cologne. Mr. Alfred H. the American Consulate in Oslo, Kliefoth, in the autumn of 1939 Ivan Jacobsen.
and in the spring of 1940 carried Mr. Redeckep, Consul at Frank- out espionage against Germany by fort-on-Main, is accused of having
From all Middle East operations, four British aircraft are missing.
using, in conjunction with the "delivered copies of anti-German ABYSSINIA POSITION Belgian Consul-General in Cologne, propaganda, and passed on in- CAIRO.
June 20 (Reuter-
a code for reports on the German, formation for military matters In Abyssinin, while patriot forces march into Belgium, Holland and which were of a secrét nature."
· Luxemburg."
The Vico-Consul in Hamburg, |
are steadily increasing pressure Consul-Getteral Ostend Nielson on the Italian garrison in the Mr. Ralph Getbinger, is accused of and Consul Roy Ebower at Munich, Gondar district, British troupe "carrying out espionage in the January, 1840. showed their are continuing their advance spring of 1941 against Germany by an German feelings by making Dobra Tabor. making sketches of the railway detrimental remarks on Germany In the "southern Kreas.
| system and military installations
near Hamburg.”
and the derman Governments in the hearing of German persona.**
Acrily.
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1941.
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