Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . CAUSES OF THE RUMANIAN DEFEAT mania an obstacle to her policy of expansiontowards Constantinople, because Rumania wasthe ally of the Central powers; she proposed toprevent all passage of Russian armies throughher territory towards Constantinople, and shenever showed herself delighted to undergo anyof the influence of Russian civilization. When the events of the great war beganto develop, when the Allies saw themselves de-ceived by Bulgaria, who made them believe tothe last moment that she would be on theirside, the statesmen of the Allies fe
Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future . CAUSES OF THE RUMANIAN DEFEAT mania an obstacle to her policy of expansiontowards Constantinople, because Rumania wasthe ally of the Central powers; she proposed toprevent all passage of Russian armies throughher territory towards Constantinople, and shenever showed herself delighted to undergo anyof the influence of Russian civilization. When the events of the great war beganto develop, when the Allies saw themselves de-ceived by Bulgaria, who made them believe tothe last moment that she would be on theirside, the statesmen of the Allies felt that theonly solution which would give any satisfac-tion for her defeat in the East was to winRumania over. Starting with this idea, thecabinets of London and Paris began a livelyaction in this direction, although Russia heldabsolutely against this solution. The Rus-sians, who were announcing their arrival inBerlin in a very short time, were nervous atseeing that London and Paris insisted uponmaking an appeal to Rumania, specially as 89 RUMANIAS
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