The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-19

(Continued from Page D diation of the United States and | Britain.
 Russia broke off relations with the Polish Exile regime here last April after the Poles had asked the International Red Cross to inveS- tigate Q German propaganda charge that the SovietS .-ad murdered a number of Polish army officers near Smolensk.
 However, the principal obstacle to resumption of relations between the two countries revolves around the postwar Russian Polish border. Poland has demanded the return of the entire eastern portion of the country occupied by the Red army in 1899, but Russia has suggested the new border be established along the Curzon line of 1919.
 Meantime, the Russian Press, ap- parently attempting to offset Brit ish indignation over Pravda's sep arate peace" dispatch, reprinted to- day a London newspaper report that Adolf Hitler had attempted to send peace offer to the Allies through Turkey.
 Political sources believed that Moscow authorized publication of an Ankara dispatch from the Lon- don Sunday Times in an effort to take the sting out of Pravda's story by showing that the Soviet Press was not alone in printing peace ru- mors.
 Bearing out this theory, Radio Moscow said the Sunday Times dis. patch was being republished in Rus. sia under the headline, British correspondent on peace proposals oi the Germans"
 The Sunday Times printed the fol- lowing dispatch last Sunday:
 "Ankara-Dr. Schmidt. Wilhelm. strasSe spokesman, probably had hi tongue in his cheek when he denied peace rumors attributed again tC Baron Franz von Papen, German ambassador to Turkey.
 Tt is true that Papen has made no proposals, but 1t is not true that no proposals have been made. Pro- posals were made, in fact, two months ago to Turkey, who refused to relay them to the Allies. Similar proposals were made to Lisbon anc Sweden.
 "The proposals came from Hitlel himself, based on the possibility O. disunion between Russia, the Unitet States and Britain, and envisioneC a German retreat behind pre-wa! frontiers, announcement of colonies for all time with a limited free hanC in the east. scrapping of the Ger man fleet and submarines, and con tinuation under the present regime until peace conditions have beer fulfilled, after which Hitler and thu Nazis would hand over to the army
 These proposals must not b' taken as indicating extreme German weakness, but as a clever last-min ute maneuver to save what can bt saved while the going is good with out jeopardizing the remaining in terests of German heavy industry whose puppets Hitler and the wal staff are.
 Warning re Germany
 "Well-informed circles here uttel warnings that Germany already 1: preparing for her next war in tho hope that she will find enough war tired people to fall into hei carefully laid trap"
 Debate continued over the Rus- sian motive in permitting Pravda Community party organ, to publish on Monday a n-censored Cairo dispatch reporting that two Heading British personalities" had conferred secretly with German Foreign Min istcr Joachim von Ribbentrop re- gently"
 However, Soviet publication ot Britain's denial of the story, coupled with ofiicial silence on the matter in Parliament yesterday, indicated that no further action was contem- plated by Britain.
 A Moscow dispatch said the Rus sian government newspaper Izvestia and the army organ Red Star pub- lished the following summary of the British Foreign Ofice's denial Of the Pravad story:
 According to a Reuter- dispatch. the British Foreign once has denied rumors reported in a cable from Pravda's Cairo correspondent, ac- cording to which meeting between two leading British personalities and German Minister Ribbentrop was alleged to have taken place"
 The denial was published on the same page and column as the original Cairo story appeared in Pravda.
 Pravda also published the sum- mary of the British Foreign On1ce denial, but all three newspaper de- voted more space to lengthy ex- tracts from the Sunday Times article.
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