The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-22
Beware Adolf With An Olive Branch
lPhiladelphia Recordl

Philadelphia Record
 Hitler is laying the groundwork for peace offensive, H. R. Knickerbocker warns in a special dispatch to The Record
 Already Hitler has attempted to open peace negotiations with the Polish Government in exile. The first attempt was rebuffed, but another envoy has sent to Polish representatives in Lisbon.
 From Hitlers point of view, it would be logical to make peace first with Poland-hs first victim of eacheous attack and the occasion for the entry of Britain and France into the war.
 We must prepare to meet Hitler's coming peace offensive by reminding ourselves of the kind world we would live in if made peace Hitler's terms. You can't do business with Hitler, and that includes the business of negotiating peace
 Startling confirmation of Knickerbocker's cable comes from Hitlers words in his recent speech.
 h his address inauguratng the annual Winter Relief campaign, Hitler declared he was willing to go the defensive and await attack from the Unit ed Nations
 He said We must let the others attack much as they wish wherever have intention to ad- vance We must hold everything and must wait to see who tires soonest. While the de- fensive in Northern Europe well in the west, gain thereby all necessary conditions for the essary organization of Europe with regard to this war"
 The danger in Htlers words is that they are true up to certain point
 He would his goal in Russia is achieved be willing to take the defensve-to carry out the necessary organization Europe with regard to this war"
 He would be willing to accept negotiated peace his terms-to organize his conquests until he was strong enough to extend his conquest of Europe to the conquest of the whole world
 Hitler realizes he has no chance of conquering Britain Russia and the United States in the inme- diate future. He wants time train his slave labor and develop the of the conquered countries as Japan needs time to develop the Dutch East Indies and Malaga.
 But the peace that Hitler can offer would be no peace, hardly armistice AS as he thought he was strong enough, he would renew the attack for the conquest now barred by the United States Britain and Russia
 If we gave Hitler-say five years of peace at new Munch-who say how strong he would be with the food of the Ukraine and the oil of the Northern Caucasus? We mustn't be fooled again
 Hitler's allies, the Japanese, as Knickerbocker points out, must be interested learn that he is willing to desert them whenever it is convenient
 Fact of the matter is that Germany and Japan will work together only as long as their courses happen to coincide and are profitable
 The United Nations must demonstrate they have greater unity of purpose than this aggregation of gangsters by immediately establishing unified com mand of all the United Nations
 The combined Chiefs of Staff now operating with Admiral Leahy ranking American officer includes only Britain and the United States-not Russia or China the other Allies.
 A command really unified would not only be an answer to Hitler's peace offensive It would be the key that could win the global war quicker and with less cost in lives.