The report of Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s 11-point peace plan, which included organization of forced Jewish emigration from Germany under British, Italian and French auspices, was “absolutely authentic,” a Rome dispatch to the New York Times said yesterday.
The report, which had received unofficial denials in Germany, had said that the plan was submitted to Pope Pius by Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Commenting on a purported Vatican denial of the report, the Times correspondent said: “Your correspondent received from an authorized source an explanation of the so-called Vatican denial of his story of the 11-point German peace plan. The denial, it was stated, merely indicated that the Vatican was not supporting that or any other plan of mediation and was not intended to deny the existence of the 11-point proposal, which is absolutely authentic.”
Under the 11-point proposal, report of which was carried by the London News-Chronicle as well as the New York Times, Britain would be entrusted with Jewish emigration into Palestine, Italy with colonization of German Jews in East Africa and France with settlement in Madagascar. The plan evoked expressions of scorn in official Allied quarters.
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