Evening star., 1948-02-17
Russians Accuse u. 5.
And Britain Of Secret
German Peace Talks
by the Assoeicfed Press


has accused the United States
and Britain of conducting secret
talks for a separate peace with
Germany in the middle of World
War II.
The Soviet Union made the
charge last night In the fourth in
stallment Of its reply to State De-
partment disclosures of documents
regarding Russian-German rela-
ttons.
A statement said Allen w. Dulles,
q brother of John Foster Dulles,
represented the United States in
talks with q German spokesman in
1942 which touched on the question
Of concluding separate peace with
Germany.
1t also charged that the son of
Lord Beaverbrook, British pub
Usher, represented Britain in SIM
liar peace talks with a German
representative in September, 1941.
1n Chappaqua, N. Y, Mr..
Dulles last night called the
Soviet statement utter non-
sense" Asked If he had further
comment, the attorney said,
"You can't comment on non-
sense.")
The statement further accused
Britain and France of seeking to
start war with the Soviet Union in
1910 instead of fighting Germany.
Reds to Publish Documents.
Ohicials said this was the final
round of statements before pubh-
cation Of captured German docu-
ments Russia claims to possess.
From these documents" the
statement said, "it can be seen that
In the autumn of 1941 and also in
1912 and 1943 In Lisbon and in
Switzerland, negotiations we're car
ried on behind the back of the
U. S. S. r. between representatives
of Britain and Germany, and later
between representatives of the
United States and Germany on the
subject of peace with Germany"
The Russian statement declared
that Mr. Dulles, with authority from
the White House, conferred with
the Germans under the pseudonym
of Bull"
It said the German representa-
tive was Prince Max Hohenlohe,
who acted as Hitler's representative
under the assumed name Of "Pauls." :"
Documents Claimed.
Russia said Germany's security
service possessed documents giving
a summary of these negotiations.
They showed, the statement said,
that among the subjects discussed
was the question of conclusion of
peace with Germany"
The statement said, Dulles more
or less agreed to the political and
Industrial organization of Europe
on the basis of large territories on
the assumption that a federated
greater Germany (similar to the
United States), with an adjoining
Danubian Confederation, will con-
stitute the best guarantee of order
and rehabilitation in Central and
Eastern Europe"
(Mrsv Dulles, former chief of
the ONCE of Strategic Services in
Europe, worked with underground
forces seeking to overthrow Hit
ler from 1912 on. He wrote a
book called "Germany's Under
ground" published last April.
CMr. Dulles also arranged for
the surrender of the German
Armies in Italy. Later he helped
prepare the case against the
Nazis at Nuernberg)
British Move Detailed.
In the charge regarding British
negotiatiins with Germany, the
statement said:
"On September 13 (194D there
was a meeting between Aiken, son
of Lord Beaverbrook, and an officer
OF the British Army and later a
member of Parliament, representing
Britain, and Gustav Won Koeber, a
Hungarian who acted with the au-
thority of the German Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
Russia claimed Aitken asked Won
Koeber whether acknowledgements
possibilities of peace" could be dis
cussed.
Russia also accused the French
high command of working out a
plan in 1910 for combined attack
by Britain and France against the
U. S. 8. r. 1t added that the plans
failed to materialize.
Russia said Hitler's invasion of
the Soviet Union in June, 1941,
pleased many persons in Britain
and the United States. 1t declared
that:
"a prominent member of the
United States Senate, now presi-
dent of the United States, Mr.. Thu
man, stated the day after Germany's
attack on the U. S. S. R.:
"'If we see Germany winning we
ought to help Russia and if Russia
is winning we ought to help Ger
many and that way let them kill as
many as possible.