Word: feeler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Russia. From London, Correspondent Frederick Kuh of the Chicago Sun cabled a plausible outline for such an Axis proposal: "Italy has intimated reluctance to conclude a separate peace and is urging a general peace settlement which will include Germany. ... The Italian suggestion has been made through Turkey. The feeler is reported to have come directly from Foreign Minister Guariglia. Germany's Papan is busy in Ankara . . . insinuating to anyone willing to listen that if the United Nations try to impose merciless terms upon Italy which might be a precedent against Germany, then Hitler might seek peace with Russia...
...Hungarian peace feelers turned up in many neutral capitals, generally coupled with inquiries as to how much of the territory snitched from Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czecho-Slovakia she might look forward to retaining. One feeler was reported to have offered the Yugoslav Government in Exile the return of all former Yugoslav territory. It was ignored...
Rotten Compromise. Not so plain was the possibility that Goebbels was sending out a peace feeler in double talk. In fact his speech, if taken at face value, specifically rejected any interest in peace without German victory. He called upon the Germans to prepare for a counteroffensive in Russia this year, and declared...
Field Marshal Mannerheim reportedly had asked the American Legation in Helsinki to find out whether his well-known hatred of the Soviet Union would be a bar to a negotiated peace. To this feeler, the Russians apparently were as cold as Russian winter...
Last week Henry Morgenthau Jr. returned from a three-week visit to London where he had 1) received a feeler on becoming world statesman of Zionism, 2) talked long and seriously with British Treasury officials...