Hitler is said to be drafting an address to the Reichstag in which he will propose a ninety-day truce with Britain to negotiate terms for a permanent peace.

Should the British reject any such offer, it is expected that the war on the Western Front will escalate immediately.

David Lloyd George, the elder British statesman who served as Prime Minister during the First World War, caused a storm in the House of Commons yesterday when he urged Members to consider carefully any peace offer which Nazi Germany may soon put forth.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lloyd George’s longtime political adversary, rejected the suggestion, warning that ‘mere assurances from the German government would not be accepted.’

Commentators noted that this public exchange might cause the world, including the US, now grappling with neutrality law changes, to view Britain as ‘weak-kneed’ in dealing with the Nazi threat.

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