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Still wearing (contrary to Berlin reports) the special soldier suit he had sworn on Sept. 1 to clothe himself in "until victory or death," Adolf Hitler rose one night last week before his rubber-stamp Reichstag. He had just returned from a one-day tour of his latest prize of war, the ruined city of Warsaw (see p. 45). He was now about to launch his well-heralded peace offensive...
Herr Hitler made a clear offer, said the official German news agency of Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech (see above), and he expects a clear answer...
Peace by Encyclical? Nobody listened to the Reichstag speech with more attention than Pius XII. He canceled all Vatican engagements and gave his radio ear (he speaks German). The Pope was reported as being "favorably impressed by the moderate tone of the speech and especially by the fact that Herr Hitler did not utter drastic threats or set a time limit for acceptance of his peace proposals." Pope Pius suspended work on his peace encyclical pending further Allied reactions...
...Reichstag deputy would have dared last week to offer the faintest criticism of Herr Hitler's speech. No delegate of the Supreme Soviet, had it been in session. would have risked his life by indicating that perhaps Joseph Stalin was going too fast in his diplomatic conquests. But last week in the House of Commons, "Mother of Parliaments," David Lloyd George, World War Prime Minister, not only counseled the Government but criticized...
LONDON-Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was understood tonight to have made his Reichstag peace proposals against strong Italian advice...