If he had not made this war, we should not have seen the Greater Rumania in our lifetime.

It was believed possible that the Russian forces might seek to advance through Rumania, instead of forcing a landing on the Black Sea coast of Bulgariain which case the crossing of Rumanian territory by Russian troops would bring Rumania into a serious situation both economically and politically, and render it difficult if not impossible for her to preserve her neutrality.

The latter must have viewed with no little satisfaction the prospect of a Hohenzollern occupying the throne of Rumania at this juncture; and Prince Carol, allowing himself to be influenced by the Iron Chancellor's advice, answered the call of the Rumanian nation, which had proclaimed him as 'Carol I, Hereditary Prince of Rumania'.

Nobody knows..." The Gate to Constantinople Only the Danube separates Rumania from Bulgaria, yet the peopleof the two capitals, at leastare as different as the French and Scotch.

Think of the treaty of Bucarest and the way we patted Rumania on the backshe was the gendarme of Europe then.

For not only is a cheap waterway absolutely necessary for the bulky products forming the chief exports of Rumania; but these very products, corn, petroleum, and timber, also form the chief exports of Russia, who, by a stroke of the pen, may rule Rumania out of competition, should she fail to appreciate the political leadership of Petrograd.

Notwithstanding the flattering words in which the Tsar spoke of the Rumanian share in the success of the campaign, Russia did not admit Rumania to the Peace Conference.

This the Hungarians used as a pretext for bringing parts of Rumania under their domination, and they were only prevented from further extending it by the coming of the Tartars (1241), the last people of Mongolian origin to harry these regions.

Russian influence was first asserted in Rumania after the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji, in 1774.

Whilst Russia was opposing Rumania at every opportunity in the European conferences and commissions, she was at pains to show herself more amenable in tête-à-tête, and approached Rumania with favourable proposals.

Such an opportunity was lost by Russia through her short-sighted policy in Bessarabiathat of remaining the natural ally of Rumania against Rumania's natural foe, Austria-Hungary.

In November 1876 Ali Bey and M. de Nelidov arrived simultaneously and secretly in Bucarest to sound Rumania as to an arrangement with their respective countries, Turkey and Russia.