On November the Armistice of Padua was signed between the allies and the Austro - Hungarian Empire putting an end to the war between the signatories on the Italian front.
In the Austro-Hungarian Empire there was a clear trend since at least that defended the need to reach some kind of agreement with the Triple Entente to end an exhausting and terrible war. Without a doubt the Austro - Hungarian Empire was the weakest part of the Central Empires and had the most internal problems given its complex composition of different nations peoples languages and religions. It was the party most interested therefore in reaching a peace without victory from the conviction that if Germany was defeated the Empire that was led from Vienna would disappear a very lucid premonition and that it would end up being confirmed in . For Berlin All of this was unacceptable demonstrating the growing tension between the two allies. The British and French did not dislike the Austrian initiative as long as it was a separate peace to continue fighting Germany in order to completely defeat it the main enemy. But the Italians Romanians and Serbs were opposed to any negotiations because they would lose their territorial claims that had to do with the Austro-Hungarian Empire but not with Germany.
The Armistice allowed the Allies to occupy the strategic points they needed for their offensive towards Munich Germany.
The Austrian initiative was led by Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma brother-in-law of the emperor. His efforts between March and May were known as the “Sixto affair.” The Austrians proposed the reestablishment of the sovereignty of Belgium invaded CXB Directory and subjugated by Germany from the beginning of the war the reestablishment of the sovereignty of Serbia with the promise of an exit to the sea and the promise of territorial compensation to Italy but without specifying. remember that Italy claimed Italian-speaking territories that belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But the allies did not accept the proposal because nothing was specified for Italy and above all because it did not refer to Alsace and Lorraine an essential demand for France but which the Austrians had surely not included in their proposal because it was also a question about which the Germans would not be willing to deal with under any circumstances. Precisely the closed German opposition was the other factor that would explain the failure of the negotiation.
But the situation was already unsustainable in the autumn of . At the end of September Bulgaria had surrendered . The news from the Italian front was disastrous. The Italian Marshal Armando Díaz had launched a strong offensive on October towards Vittorio Veneto with Franco-British support and although it cost him he achieved the objective of taking this city. Mutinies by Slavic soldiers occurred in the Austro-Hungarian army which became another factor in calling for an end to hostilities. The retreat had turned into true chaos. For its part Belgrade had been liberated in Serbia on November so Vienna decided to send General Von Weber to Italy to negotiate a ceasefire . The Italian high command informed the Austrians of their conditions and was granted a deadline of November to respond to them.
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