FOOTNOTES1The Ergene is a tributary of the Maritza and lies in Turkish Thrace.2On the Enos-Midia line, thus leaving Constantinople in Turkish hands with a small hinterland in Europe.3Santa Sofia.4“It is the liquidation of Austria.”5Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.6Turkish statistics: There is good reason to believe that these figures were approximately correct; it is most improbable, in any case, that the Turks would have exaggerated the number of Bulgars in this vilayet.7A bay in the Eastern Mediterranean Coast to which a British squadron was sent whenever it was necessary to put pressure on the Turks.8“The Great Powerless.”9“Don’t touch the Adriatic.”10Austria-Hungary.11“An accomplished fact.”12That is a big nothing.13Baron Burian, afterwards Count Burian, a prominent Austro-Hungarian diplomat both before and during the war.14Count Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in London for 15 years.15A place close to and just outside the S.W. frontier of Bulgaria, where the Bulgars resisted the combined attacks of the Servian and Greek armies for 14 days.16“A Cascade of Thrones.” The title of a series of articles published by M. Take Jonescu in 1915.17“Balkan haggling.”18See map.19“The Thrust to the East.”20Loans are made only to the rich.21Count Tisza, leader of the Hungarian Conservatives and ultimately assassinated in Budapest by a Hungarian Socialist.22Abandon Austria and we will abandon the French.23The opportune moment.24The father of M. Bratiano was the celebrated Rumanian patriot who, in 1878, was tricked out of Bessarabia by Prince Gortchakoff, the Russian Envoy, at the Treaty of Vienna.25Count Czernin was at this period Austro-Hungarian Minister in Bucharest; he succeeded Count Berchtold as Chancellor in the Dual Monarchy after the death of the Emperor Francis Joseph.26An Hungarian province at the confluence of the Danube and the Theiss, N.E. of Belgrade.27In the war of 1877 between Russia and Turkey, Rumania had come to the rescue of Russia when the Russian army was held up by the Turks under Osman Pasha at Plevna.28The husband of Francesca da Rimini, who killed his wife and her lover.29The French General commanding the Allied Forces at Salonika.30Baron von der Büsche; he became later Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office at Berlin.31The River Sereth divides Wallachia from Moldavia.32Presan was one of Rumania’s ablest generals; he had commanded the Northern Army at the commencement of hostilities, and was entrusted with the direction of the operations for the defence of Bucharest. After the retreat into Moldavia he became Chief of Staff to the King.33Dorna Vatra is a town in the Carpathians on the S.W. frontier of Bukovina.34The River Pruth defines part of the frontier between Rumania and Bessarabia and enters the Danube at Galatz.35About 60 per cent. of the supplies of ammunition sent by the Western Powers to Rumania were lost or stolen in transit through Russia.36These Articles prescribed the position of the King of Rumania as Commander-in-Chief of all forces in Rumanian territory. After the retreat into Moldavia, advantage was taken of the somewhat inexplicit character of these Articles and the preponderance of Russian troops to place King Ferdinand under the orders of the Czar.37The former German Minister to Bucharest.38“Kyrie Eleison,” the Greek for “Lord have mercy on us,” described by Cardinal Wiseman as “that cry for mercy which is to be found in every liturgy of East and West.”39Marasesti is a village in the Sereth Valley, where six Rumanian divisions repelled repeated assaults by numerically superior German and Austro-Hungarian forces under Field-Marshal Mackensen. The Rumanians fought unsupported and caused 100,000 casualties in the enemy ranks. They held their positions until the signature of peace at Bucharest.40General Nivelles.41To Paris.42To Berlin.43Speech of April 2nd, 1917.44Message of December 4th, 1917.45Declaration of September 27th, 1918.46In a speech at Birmingham University on December 12, 1918, Lord Robert Cecil said: “Our new ‘Society of Nations’ must not be a group, however large and important. It is absolutely essential that the ‘League of Nations’ should be open to every nation which can be trusted by its fellows to accept ‘ex animo,’ the principles and basis of such a Society.”47In the original—“Sceptre and crownwilltumble down,And in the level dustbelaid,” etc.48The former Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.49During the Conference, a well-known Pole, whose reputation for shrewd observation is established, remarked: “Mr. Lloyd George has a passion for popularity and is the most popular man in Paris, but the ‘Tiger’ is running the British Empire.”50The ideal is reached for a moment only.
FOOTNOTES1The Ergene is a tributary of the Maritza and lies in Turkish Thrace.2On the Enos-Midia line, thus leaving Constantinople in Turkish hands with a small hinterland in Europe.3Santa Sofia.4“It is the liquidation of Austria.”5Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.6Turkish statistics: There is good reason to believe that these figures were approximately correct; it is most improbable, in any case, that the Turks would have exaggerated the number of Bulgars in this vilayet.7A bay in the Eastern Mediterranean Coast to which a British squadron was sent whenever it was necessary to put pressure on the Turks.8“The Great Powerless.”9“Don’t touch the Adriatic.”10Austria-Hungary.11“An accomplished fact.”12That is a big nothing.13Baron Burian, afterwards Count Burian, a prominent Austro-Hungarian diplomat both before and during the war.14Count Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in London for 15 years.15A place close to and just outside the S.W. frontier of Bulgaria, where the Bulgars resisted the combined attacks of the Servian and Greek armies for 14 days.16“A Cascade of Thrones.” The title of a series of articles published by M. Take Jonescu in 1915.17“Balkan haggling.”18See map.19“The Thrust to the East.”20Loans are made only to the rich.21Count Tisza, leader of the Hungarian Conservatives and ultimately assassinated in Budapest by a Hungarian Socialist.22Abandon Austria and we will abandon the French.23The opportune moment.24The father of M. Bratiano was the celebrated Rumanian patriot who, in 1878, was tricked out of Bessarabia by Prince Gortchakoff, the Russian Envoy, at the Treaty of Vienna.25Count Czernin was at this period Austro-Hungarian Minister in Bucharest; he succeeded Count Berchtold as Chancellor in the Dual Monarchy after the death of the Emperor Francis Joseph.26An Hungarian province at the confluence of the Danube and the Theiss, N.E. of Belgrade.27In the war of 1877 between Russia and Turkey, Rumania had come to the rescue of Russia when the Russian army was held up by the Turks under Osman Pasha at Plevna.28The husband of Francesca da Rimini, who killed his wife and her lover.29The French General commanding the Allied Forces at Salonika.30Baron von der Büsche; he became later Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office at Berlin.31The River Sereth divides Wallachia from Moldavia.32Presan was one of Rumania’s ablest generals; he had commanded the Northern Army at the commencement of hostilities, and was entrusted with the direction of the operations for the defence of Bucharest. After the retreat into Moldavia he became Chief of Staff to the King.33Dorna Vatra is a town in the Carpathians on the S.W. frontier of Bukovina.34The River Pruth defines part of the frontier between Rumania and Bessarabia and enters the Danube at Galatz.35About 60 per cent. of the supplies of ammunition sent by the Western Powers to Rumania were lost or stolen in transit through Russia.36These Articles prescribed the position of the King of Rumania as Commander-in-Chief of all forces in Rumanian territory. After the retreat into Moldavia, advantage was taken of the somewhat inexplicit character of these Articles and the preponderance of Russian troops to place King Ferdinand under the orders of the Czar.37The former German Minister to Bucharest.38“Kyrie Eleison,” the Greek for “Lord have mercy on us,” described by Cardinal Wiseman as “that cry for mercy which is to be found in every liturgy of East and West.”39Marasesti is a village in the Sereth Valley, where six Rumanian divisions repelled repeated assaults by numerically superior German and Austro-Hungarian forces under Field-Marshal Mackensen. The Rumanians fought unsupported and caused 100,000 casualties in the enemy ranks. They held their positions until the signature of peace at Bucharest.40General Nivelles.41To Paris.42To Berlin.43Speech of April 2nd, 1917.44Message of December 4th, 1917.45Declaration of September 27th, 1918.46In a speech at Birmingham University on December 12, 1918, Lord Robert Cecil said: “Our new ‘Society of Nations’ must not be a group, however large and important. It is absolutely essential that the ‘League of Nations’ should be open to every nation which can be trusted by its fellows to accept ‘ex animo,’ the principles and basis of such a Society.”47In the original—“Sceptre and crownwilltumble down,And in the level dustbelaid,” etc.48The former Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.49During the Conference, a well-known Pole, whose reputation for shrewd observation is established, remarked: “Mr. Lloyd George has a passion for popularity and is the most popular man in Paris, but the ‘Tiger’ is running the British Empire.”50The ideal is reached for a moment only.
1The Ergene is a tributary of the Maritza and lies in Turkish Thrace.
1The Ergene is a tributary of the Maritza and lies in Turkish Thrace.
2On the Enos-Midia line, thus leaving Constantinople in Turkish hands with a small hinterland in Europe.
2On the Enos-Midia line, thus leaving Constantinople in Turkish hands with a small hinterland in Europe.
3Santa Sofia.
3Santa Sofia.
4“It is the liquidation of Austria.”
4“It is the liquidation of Austria.”
5Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.
5Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.
6Turkish statistics: There is good reason to believe that these figures were approximately correct; it is most improbable, in any case, that the Turks would have exaggerated the number of Bulgars in this vilayet.
6Turkish statistics: There is good reason to believe that these figures were approximately correct; it is most improbable, in any case, that the Turks would have exaggerated the number of Bulgars in this vilayet.
7A bay in the Eastern Mediterranean Coast to which a British squadron was sent whenever it was necessary to put pressure on the Turks.
7A bay in the Eastern Mediterranean Coast to which a British squadron was sent whenever it was necessary to put pressure on the Turks.
8“The Great Powerless.”
8“The Great Powerless.”
9“Don’t touch the Adriatic.”
9“Don’t touch the Adriatic.”
10Austria-Hungary.
10Austria-Hungary.
11“An accomplished fact.”
11“An accomplished fact.”
12That is a big nothing.
12That is a big nothing.
13Baron Burian, afterwards Count Burian, a prominent Austro-Hungarian diplomat both before and during the war.
13Baron Burian, afterwards Count Burian, a prominent Austro-Hungarian diplomat both before and during the war.
14Count Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in London for 15 years.
14Count Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in London for 15 years.
15A place close to and just outside the S.W. frontier of Bulgaria, where the Bulgars resisted the combined attacks of the Servian and Greek armies for 14 days.
15A place close to and just outside the S.W. frontier of Bulgaria, where the Bulgars resisted the combined attacks of the Servian and Greek armies for 14 days.
16“A Cascade of Thrones.” The title of a series of articles published by M. Take Jonescu in 1915.
16“A Cascade of Thrones.” The title of a series of articles published by M. Take Jonescu in 1915.
17“Balkan haggling.”
17“Balkan haggling.”
18See map.
18See map.
19“The Thrust to the East.”
19“The Thrust to the East.”
20Loans are made only to the rich.
20Loans are made only to the rich.
21Count Tisza, leader of the Hungarian Conservatives and ultimately assassinated in Budapest by a Hungarian Socialist.
21Count Tisza, leader of the Hungarian Conservatives and ultimately assassinated in Budapest by a Hungarian Socialist.
22Abandon Austria and we will abandon the French.
22Abandon Austria and we will abandon the French.
23The opportune moment.
23The opportune moment.
24The father of M. Bratiano was the celebrated Rumanian patriot who, in 1878, was tricked out of Bessarabia by Prince Gortchakoff, the Russian Envoy, at the Treaty of Vienna.
24The father of M. Bratiano was the celebrated Rumanian patriot who, in 1878, was tricked out of Bessarabia by Prince Gortchakoff, the Russian Envoy, at the Treaty of Vienna.
25Count Czernin was at this period Austro-Hungarian Minister in Bucharest; he succeeded Count Berchtold as Chancellor in the Dual Monarchy after the death of the Emperor Francis Joseph.
25Count Czernin was at this period Austro-Hungarian Minister in Bucharest; he succeeded Count Berchtold as Chancellor in the Dual Monarchy after the death of the Emperor Francis Joseph.
26An Hungarian province at the confluence of the Danube and the Theiss, N.E. of Belgrade.
26An Hungarian province at the confluence of the Danube and the Theiss, N.E. of Belgrade.
27In the war of 1877 between Russia and Turkey, Rumania had come to the rescue of Russia when the Russian army was held up by the Turks under Osman Pasha at Plevna.
27In the war of 1877 between Russia and Turkey, Rumania had come to the rescue of Russia when the Russian army was held up by the Turks under Osman Pasha at Plevna.
28The husband of Francesca da Rimini, who killed his wife and her lover.
28The husband of Francesca da Rimini, who killed his wife and her lover.
29The French General commanding the Allied Forces at Salonika.
29The French General commanding the Allied Forces at Salonika.
30Baron von der Büsche; he became later Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office at Berlin.
30Baron von der Büsche; he became later Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office at Berlin.
31The River Sereth divides Wallachia from Moldavia.
31The River Sereth divides Wallachia from Moldavia.
32Presan was one of Rumania’s ablest generals; he had commanded the Northern Army at the commencement of hostilities, and was entrusted with the direction of the operations for the defence of Bucharest. After the retreat into Moldavia he became Chief of Staff to the King.
32Presan was one of Rumania’s ablest generals; he had commanded the Northern Army at the commencement of hostilities, and was entrusted with the direction of the operations for the defence of Bucharest. After the retreat into Moldavia he became Chief of Staff to the King.
33Dorna Vatra is a town in the Carpathians on the S.W. frontier of Bukovina.
33Dorna Vatra is a town in the Carpathians on the S.W. frontier of Bukovina.
34The River Pruth defines part of the frontier between Rumania and Bessarabia and enters the Danube at Galatz.
34The River Pruth defines part of the frontier between Rumania and Bessarabia and enters the Danube at Galatz.
35About 60 per cent. of the supplies of ammunition sent by the Western Powers to Rumania were lost or stolen in transit through Russia.
35About 60 per cent. of the supplies of ammunition sent by the Western Powers to Rumania were lost or stolen in transit through Russia.
36These Articles prescribed the position of the King of Rumania as Commander-in-Chief of all forces in Rumanian territory. After the retreat into Moldavia, advantage was taken of the somewhat inexplicit character of these Articles and the preponderance of Russian troops to place King Ferdinand under the orders of the Czar.
36These Articles prescribed the position of the King of Rumania as Commander-in-Chief of all forces in Rumanian territory. After the retreat into Moldavia, advantage was taken of the somewhat inexplicit character of these Articles and the preponderance of Russian troops to place King Ferdinand under the orders of the Czar.
37The former German Minister to Bucharest.
37The former German Minister to Bucharest.
38“Kyrie Eleison,” the Greek for “Lord have mercy on us,” described by Cardinal Wiseman as “that cry for mercy which is to be found in every liturgy of East and West.”
38“Kyrie Eleison,” the Greek for “Lord have mercy on us,” described by Cardinal Wiseman as “that cry for mercy which is to be found in every liturgy of East and West.”
39Marasesti is a village in the Sereth Valley, where six Rumanian divisions repelled repeated assaults by numerically superior German and Austro-Hungarian forces under Field-Marshal Mackensen. The Rumanians fought unsupported and caused 100,000 casualties in the enemy ranks. They held their positions until the signature of peace at Bucharest.
39Marasesti is a village in the Sereth Valley, where six Rumanian divisions repelled repeated assaults by numerically superior German and Austro-Hungarian forces under Field-Marshal Mackensen. The Rumanians fought unsupported and caused 100,000 casualties in the enemy ranks. They held their positions until the signature of peace at Bucharest.
40General Nivelles.
40General Nivelles.
41To Paris.
41To Paris.
42To Berlin.
42To Berlin.
43Speech of April 2nd, 1917.
43Speech of April 2nd, 1917.
44Message of December 4th, 1917.
44Message of December 4th, 1917.
45Declaration of September 27th, 1918.
45Declaration of September 27th, 1918.
46In a speech at Birmingham University on December 12, 1918, Lord Robert Cecil said: “Our new ‘Society of Nations’ must not be a group, however large and important. It is absolutely essential that the ‘League of Nations’ should be open to every nation which can be trusted by its fellows to accept ‘ex animo,’ the principles and basis of such a Society.”
46In a speech at Birmingham University on December 12, 1918, Lord Robert Cecil said: “Our new ‘Society of Nations’ must not be a group, however large and important. It is absolutely essential that the ‘League of Nations’ should be open to every nation which can be trusted by its fellows to accept ‘ex animo,’ the principles and basis of such a Society.”
47In the original—“Sceptre and crownwilltumble down,And in the level dustbelaid,” etc.
47In the original—
“Sceptre and crownwilltumble down,And in the level dustbelaid,” etc.
“Sceptre and crownwilltumble down,And in the level dustbelaid,” etc.
“Sceptre and crownwilltumble down,And in the level dustbelaid,” etc.
48The former Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.
48The former Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.
49During the Conference, a well-known Pole, whose reputation for shrewd observation is established, remarked: “Mr. Lloyd George has a passion for popularity and is the most popular man in Paris, but the ‘Tiger’ is running the British Empire.”
49During the Conference, a well-known Pole, whose reputation for shrewd observation is established, remarked: “Mr. Lloyd George has a passion for popularity and is the most popular man in Paris, but the ‘Tiger’ is running the British Empire.”
50The ideal is reached for a moment only.
50The ideal is reached for a moment only.