CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, October 7, 1939

* Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech
* Asks the World for peace ? (ruse)

The front page has a nice banner headline: "HITLER PUSHES PEACE OFFER" with subheads. (see images) Lengthy text continues on page 2 with related map. 
Complete Sunday edition with 60+ pages, rag edition in very nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine.

Background: The international press coverage around October 8, 1939, regarding Adolf Hitler's "peace offer" is historically notable because it represents a rare, paradoxical moment where the Nazi leader publicly adopted the language of a global peacemaker—proposing an international security conference, general European disarmament, and global currency regulation—while simultaneously demanding that the Allied powers accept his violent conquest and total destruction of Poland as a permanent fait accompli. Delivered in a Reichstag speech on October 6 and widely dissected by global newspapers over the weekend of October 7–8, this maneuver was extraordinary for its extreme geopolitical cynicism: Hitler spent over an hour celebrating the brutal annihilation of Poland before shifting tones to project horrifying visions of "endless graveyards" on the Western Front if Britain and France refused his terms. What makes this document and moment particularly rare in WWII history is that it was Hitler's penultimate attempt at a formal diplomatic settlement with the West—a high-stakes propaganda ploy intended to divide the Allies, manipulate war-weary Western publics, and buy critical time to rearm and reposition German troops for the upcoming invasion of Western Europe. The Allied refusal of this ultimatum effectively closed the final real diplomatic window of the early conflict, shifting the "Phoney War" into a guaranteed total war.