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Show VORWAERTS SAYS GERMANY BLESSED KISS IN ADVANCE AMSTERDAM. Jan. i'7. The Sociaiwt paper. Vorwaens. 10 ins in the t or.tro- ersv that has arisen in the German prec-3 as to whether Count Czernin's peace inflation in-flation to President Wilson is indicative cf a break in the Austro-German alliance. alli-ance. Pan -German papers think that it is, but Yorwaerts points to the "weghtV phrase in Von Kuehimann s speech. "YVo are in agreement v ith Count Czemin.'" as proving, com ray to the ran -German assumption, that "Count Czernin's fraternal fra-ternal kiss for Frcsident "Wilson received the German government's blessing in advance." ad-vance." Again complaining of Gfrn.an Chancellor von I-icrtling's ambiguity, Yorwaetrs outlines out-lines ii k own programme, based on "the honest right oi s-: '.f-rietermination for the, eastern peoples, including t'ne right to rejoin Russia : the complete re-establish -meiu of the jneb-pendence of Belgium and the return of occupied French territory on the solo condition that France foregoes fore-goes her claim on German territory." Yorwaerts asks Secret a ry von KuehU niann w herher an v oblige t ion prevents hum from adopting this r rograrnn.e. |