AUSTRIA AND PEACE
(COUNT CZERNIN INTERVIEWED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Rec. D-ac. 14, 9.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Advices from Vienna state that Count Czernin explained to an interviewer that Ludendorff prevented peace whenever the Allies were winning and Britain refused' to consider peace italic whenever the Germanic Alliance was winning. Ludendorff refused to consider peace. Austria offered Galicia to if Germany -would give Alsace-Lorraine to France, but the German militarists refused, because they said the. Germanpeople would never understand the giving up of land for which they had shed; so much blood. General Smuts visited Switzerland last March, and Uensdorff met him on the Austro-Hungarians' behalf, but there .was an ind'e-finite result. Germany assured Count Czernin that no definite "terms had been received from Britain, and he believed this true. Britain always seemed ready, to crush Germany. Only President Wilson seemed' Teadv to give her reasonable terms. Wilhelm did not want the war, .but did not know how to get out of assenting to it. The war was started through too much bluffing, everyone wanting the other fellow to give way.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 299, 14 December 1918, Page 5
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