The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-27
Peace RumOrs
New York Times)


Secretary Hull has put his foot down hard on all
the current peace rumors by suggesting that they are
most of the time inspired by the Axis create
confidence among the Allies and thereby impair theil
whole effort 1t is timely warning which takes
account of both the military and the psychological
situations in a global For the Axis strength is
still great in Europe and is still growing in the
Orient, and even the ultimate end of hosttes in
Europe will not mean the end of the war but merely
the beginning of an about effort against tough
enemy in the East. Any relaxation of effort now
would have costly consequences The armed forces of
the Allied nations know this and they stepping up
operations accordingly-in Russia, in Italy, in the
Pacific and in the air. The Allied statesmen and
commanders know that the real climax of the war
is still ahead OF us and that the biggest price for
victory is still to be paid
But in point of fact the peace do not
concern themselves with victory for the Allies and
unconditional surrender for the Axis for neither
Germany certainly Japan is ready to throw up
its hands. The rumors based entirely the idea
of a negotiated compromise peace which would vtate
Allied victory and the Axis In far as
they promote the idea they do indeed play into Axis
hands, and may be, Mr. Hull suggests part Of the
psychological warfare of Axis propagandsts For they
tend not only to impair the Allied war effort but also
10 undermine Allied postwar plans for better world
They seek to destroy the Atlantic Charter the
Casablanca ultimatum and the Moscow Declarations
and their ultimate aim is to lay the basis for new
world war in which the gangSter Powers can resume
their bid for world domination at a time and under
circumstances of their own choosing Germany, for
one began her preparations for this before
the ink dry the last peace treaty. Any
peace leaving the enemy the loopholes would be
bound to have the result
1t is only necessary to realize the danger and the
purpose of these to become immune to them
But having immunized themselves the Allies can well
afford to encourage the peace lodgings that
obviously yelling up in Germany and especially among
her satellites provided they make it plain that peace
is obtainable only on Allied terms For the peace
double-edged sword, fact which has
already prompted the Axis to deny them. And the
growing peace demands of war-weary and despair
ing population creating something of a
front" within the Axis countries that constitutes
perhaps the immediate to the Nazi masters
and their Quislings AT least, longer able to
concentrate on warning the Germans against the
consequences of defeat.
That warning forms the keynote of speech by
Hitler delivered ten days ago in which he declared
that this end only in victory anniha-
ton and that the nation which loses this ceases
to exist" AS far Hitler himself his fellow crim-
nals and his whole system are concerned that is
undoubtedly true and it is significant that his speech
released for publication simultaneously with
Berlin broadcast of that President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stain are
meeting in conference Hitler is obviously trying to
brighten the Germans into sticking with him to the
last And the tone of his appeal presents the Allies
with opportunity. For if such conference does
take place. it can turn the peace rumors against
Hitler himsef-by showing the Germans and their
satellites the only way they themselves from
the fate which Hitler has prepared for them.