CZERNIN'S' DISCLOSURES.
PREVIOUS PEACE EFFORTS
LUDENDORFFS OPPOSITION
(Received Dec. 14, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Advices from '-Vienna state Count ••Czernin explained to an interviewer -that Ludendorff prevented peace whenever the Allies were winning, and Britain refused to consider peace talk ' whenever the German alliance was
winning. .\;\-- ■'■" .Austria 'Offered Galieia to Germany, ■: if Germany would give Alsace-Lorraine to France, but the militarists refused, the German peoplo would /never understand giving up land for which they had shed so much blood. , General Smuts visited Svvitzerlai^l last March. Count Mensdorff met -'•him on the Austro-Hungarians' behalf, >ut no definite result was reached. Germany assured Czernin that no • definite terms were received from Britain, and he believed this to be true. Britain always seemed ready to crush -Germany. , Only Wilson seemed ready to give her reasonable terms. Wilhelm did not want .war, but did not know how to get out of assenting ;to.it. The war started through too much bluffing, everyone thinking the Other fellow would give way.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9477, 14 December 1918, Page 5
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