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Division IV Strictly confidential! Radio group Only for personal broadcasting and Helldienst service use! to destroy! ( $ 353 e RSTGB ). Reports from 26th and 27th October 194o. $.d. d. Iro n d o n - Czech. 1.18/10.40 The German agency Transozean brings a message aue Vichy, which has decided to adopt Hitler's conditions for a permanent peace and to join a pan-European bloc whose purpose would be to force England to end the war. It is assumed that this should initiate a great peace offensive which aims to isolate England completely or, if this is likely to fail, to try to win arms with France's help. The aim should be to push a wedge between England and the Uså, in which England is presented as solely responsible for the continuation of the war. Germany will be presented with peace-loving, progressive power, which has already laid the foundations for a federal order, and nothing more fervent than to continue its cultural mission in Poland, the CsR, Norway, Belgium and Holland in peace, it is assumed that Hitler has proposed a formal part in the establishment of a European economic unity under the leadership of Germany. Spain and Jtalien are also to support these peace goals. Germany is also prepared to conclude a peace with England on the basis of today's European leg. The view that Hitler is basing large court-inations on the peace offensive for the turn of the defeat is explained by a message in the Chicago Daily News from Vichy, in which it says: Roosevelt is supposed to be the mediator through which Hitler wants to initiate his peace offensive. Ls means that if Roosevelt does not commit himself to this Rlan, he is threatened that he will be branded as a war-monger against the American electorate. Jn New-York finds the view imaginable that Roosevelt could at the last moment change to favor the Third Reich in order to achieve his re-election. The Americans cannot believe that Hitler could be so stupid to believe this. America no longer wants compromises nit Hitler, but an increased help to England. Hitler's last journey was aimed at making Vichy ruling and Spain a militant. Participation in the war against England. Jn Nev-York believes that Hitler has come to the hermitage, that the American aid to England is much more generous than he had assumed. If Hitler wants to win the war, he must win the jieg before the beginning of winter. An american rapporteur explains that the news that by spring the britytdnerik. Plug-zeugfabri- katiter will have overtaken the German at large. Hitler has terrified Danit, he did not expect. Jn USA is pointed out that he has to lower Britain's hit on all fronts with a hail of sightings, even before the amerik, help amics even more salutary extent. In addition, before the internal cracks on the continent become visible abysses and the General Chaos along the Seine, Rhöne, Rhine etc, will rage. - Despite reports that Petain has accepted the German conditions, in England the hope is not abandoned that Prankreich minktx -2-