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The Laramie Republican
Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming
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At the Brest-Litovsk peace conference, Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Czernin stated that with no response from Russia's allies, negotiations would proceed as a separate peace between Russia and the Central Powers, refusing transfer to neutral territory and placing responsibility on Russia if unsuccessful. German Foreign Minister Von Kuehlmann asserted that prior difficulties do not justify failure or resumption of hostilities, committing to continue talks at Brest-Litovsk.
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German and Austro-Hungarian Premiers Assert That Responsibility Is Now Up to Russia.
Now Question of Separate Peace Between Russia and Central Powers and That Negotiations Would Not Be Transferred to Neutral Place.
Difficulties That Stop Negotiations Not Sufficient to Justify.
Amsterdam, Jan. 11. Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, at a full sitting of the peace conference at Brest-Litovsk on Thursday, said that, as Russia's allies had not replied to the invitation to participate in the negotiations, it was now a question of a separate peace between Russia and the central powers. He gave reasons for not wishing to transfer the negotiations to neutral territory, and said if the Russians were animated by the same intentions as the central powers, the result of the negotiations would be satisfactory. If not, responsibility would fall exclusively on the Russians.
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Von Kuehlmann, the German foreign minister, said he considered the difficulties which had interrupted the previous negotiations were not sufficient to justify the failure of the peace work, and, presumably, the resumption of hostilities. He said it was the fixed and unchangeable determination of the central powers not to conduct elsewhere the peace negotiations begun at Brest-Litovsk.
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Brest Litovsk
Event Date
Jan. 11
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possibility of separate peace between russia and central powers; responsibility for failure on russia; commitment to continue negotiations at brest-litovsk without transfer to neutral territory.
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Count Czernin stated that without replies from Russia's allies, negotiations would be a separate peace between Russia and the Central Powers, refusing transfer to neutral territory, with satisfactory results if intentions align, otherwise responsibility on Russians. Von Kuehlmann said prior difficulties do not justify failure or resumption of hostilities, and Central Powers are determined to continue talks at Brest-Litovsk.