Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
Hitler S Regime
Peri|ed byCoup,
Rumor inEurope

NO ~FS
LONDON, Aug. 9 (INS)-Ru-
mors that a military coup may
soon dislodge Adolf Hitler from
power in Germany spread through
Europe today and informed
sources said major diplomatic
moves probably will develop this
week, possibly involving Italy's
withdrawal from the war.
Berlin dispatches 10 Madrid
newspapers, passed by the Nazi
censor, declared that powers
"of enormous magnitude" have
been given Hermann Goering,
German air chief, who has been
Hitler's right-hand man for. the
last two decades, ms reported.
Madrid diplomatic circles,
expanding the dispatches. re-
ported that the Nazi dictator
had been stripped of his powers
and replaced by representatives
of the German army and navy.
GoERING'S POWERS
(Goering was said to hold
the Craftsmanship of the new
ruling clique, acting as liaison
between the board and the
Nazi Party.
besides Goering, the govern
ing body was reported 70 in
clude Field Marshal Wilhelm
Kietel, chaif of the army high
command, and Grand Admiral
Karl Doenitz. navy chieftain0
Allied observers discounted sug-
gestions that the sudden conven-
ing of German military leaders
and high Nazi officials at Hitler's
headquarters last week presaged
Hitler's fall from power, but ii
generally was agreed that they
dealt with the worsening situation
on both the German home and
military fronts.
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill were under
stood in London to be considering
new peace proposals from Italy
a n d the possibility remote
though it appeared-that Hitler
might be ousted led TO specula-
ton that they might confer soon
with Premier Stain TO clarity
Allied policy.
With the Allies smashing final
Axis resistance in Sicily and with
vast areas of northern Italy's
three most important industrial
cities in ruins from Saturday
nights air raids, London sources
believed that the stalling of the
two-week-old Italian government
of Marshal Pietro Badoglio may
be nearing an end.
An Italian frontier report said
I h sands of anti-Badoglio
pamphlets calling for a general
strike beginning today as a pro-
test against the governments
failure to make peace were dis
tributed in Milan. Turin and
Genoa following the air raids.
PEACE OR DEATH
An underground radio station
identifying itself as Free Milan"
was heard broadcastiRg:.
I'VE must make peace
straight away II we want 10
save ourselves. The people who
succeeded In chasing MuSsolini
will rise again and chase BadO-
Clio to obtain peace. Either we
ian
A wide variety Of reports Of
business transacted or discussed
at the Nazi conference reached
London. Among them were:
Hitler sought TO pressure
Il Japanese Ambassador Hiro-
shi Oshima, who attended, into
persuading his government 10
attack Russia.
O-The conference ordered
- German Foreign Minister
Won Ribbentrop 10 keep Italy
fighting as long as possible TO
enable the Germans to prepare
military positions in northern
Italy and shorten defenses in
the Balkans.
0-The military command pro-
- posed shortening the Rus
sian front by a withdrawal to
the Dneiper River line, or even
farther west.
i-The conference entrusted
r the Nazi Party with the
task of strengthening home
morale in the face of intensified
Allied bombing raids.
Italian frontier reports said
that Marshal Keitel, supreme
commander of the German armed
forces, went from the meeting 10
Verona in northern Italy to con-
fer with high Italian army Off
cialS