62/122 You must assist me or depose me; there is no other way. I have no more to say." 5 =Report of the Peace Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk= The Austro-Hungarian Government entered upon the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk with the object of arriving as quickly as possible at a peace compact which, if it did not, as we hoped, lead to a general peace, should at least secure order in the East. The draft of a preliminary peace was sent to Brest containing the following points: 1. Cessation of hostilities; if general peace should not be concluded, then neither of the present contracting parties to afford any support to the enemies of the other. No surrender of territory; Poland, Lithuania and Courland retaining the right of determining their own destiny for the future. |