Recording of a meeting in the presence of Czernin, Bethmann Hollweg, Wedel, von Stumm, von Merey and Hohenlohe

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English Translation

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words, and I would like to point out that, perhaps even at the time of the preparation of England, we do not think that we are excluded. The last offer had been lost a lot of time on the part of France and therefore the feelers appeared to him more seriously from the contingency and should be more aware that even this year than the previous - because it is the discussion of peace - is not the first time that possibilities in themselves France are so close to us - the length that we even - and therefore he must be facing a fourth winter like his previous speakers for it. In contrast, the case is not dropped to its previous observation. On the basis of which the question of the modalities, of the possibility of a separate one, of which he seemed to have excluded himself from the first conversation, had he drawn him in all the least, he had to join the strong Einiruck, the remarks of the count, that probably a Czernin who had told one of the Entente powers that Germany was not thinking of London's protocol to and Austria-Hungary, but that he had a great talk of an Ententemitglie lines of their peace condition with one of their opponents and had to come to terms with it under co-science, the Succus of theirs./. ./. 09