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Relapse into Bondage: Political Memoirs of a Romanian Diplomat, 1918-1947
Published in Hardcover by Center for Romanian Studies (01 April, 1998)
Authors: Alexandru Cretzianu and Sherman David Spector
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the inexorable approach of World War II in Central Europe
These diplomatic and political memoirs will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in European history between the World Wars and, especially, in the point of view of a small, vulnerable country that watched as all hopes for protection from Germany gradually faded away. The post-World War I isolationism of the United States is depicted as the tragedy from which all else follows, and this, combined with the US abandonment of Romania at Yalta, seems ample justification for the resentment that colors the admiration with which Romanians look to the US. Britain and France are similarly unreliable sources of protection as the crisis deepens. Finally, Romania's longstanding vulnerability to Russia -- so well depicted in Florescu's "Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities, 1821-1854" and Michelson's "Romanian Politics 1859-71", from the same publisher -- comes to the fore as the country finds itself with only Russia and Germany to protect her each from the other. Written in the late 1940s, these memoirs close on a suitably bleak note: "Time does not play in behalf of the Democracies. Unless they act while there is time, another kind of peace will be the one that will prevail: the Pax Sovietica -- the peace of the concentration camp and of the unmarked mass grave."


Romania at the Paris Peace Conference: A Study of the Diplomacy of Ioan I.C. Bratianu
Published in Hardcover by International Specialized Book Services (1995)
Author: Sherman David Spector
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