FOOTNOTES
1 The Ergene is a tributary of the Maritza and lies in Turkish Thrace.
2 On the Enos-Midia line, thus leaving Constantinople in Turkish hands with a small hinterland in Europe.
3 Santa Sofia.
4 “It is the liquidation of Austria.”
5 Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.
6 Turkish 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.
7 A 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.”
10 Austria-Hungary.
11 “An accomplished fact.”
12 That is a big nothing.
13 Baron Burian, afterwards Count Burian, a prominent Austro-Hungarian diplomat both before and during the war.
14 Count Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in London for 15 years.
15 A 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.”
18 See map.
19 “The Thrust to the East.”
20 Loans are made only to the rich.
21 Count Tisza, leader of the Hungarian Conservatives and ultimately assassinated in Budapest by a Hungarian Socialist.
22 Abandon Austria and we will abandon the French.
23 The opportune moment.
24 The 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.
25 Count 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.
26 An Hungarian province at the confluence of the Danube and the Theiss, N.E. of Belgrade.
27 In 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.
28 The husband of Francesca da Rimini, who killed his wife and her lover.
29 The French General commanding the Allied Forces at Salonika.
30 Baron von der Büsche; he became later Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office at Berlin.
31 The River Sereth divides Wallachia from Moldavia.
32 Presan 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.
33 Dorna Vatra is a town in the Carpathians on the S.W. frontier of Bukovina.
34 The River Pruth defines part of the frontier between Rumania and Bessarabia and enters the Danube at Galatz.
35 About 60 per cent. of the supplies of ammunition sent by the Western Powers to Rumania were lost or stolen in transit through Russia.
36 These 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.
37 The 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.”
39 Marasesti 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.
40 General Nivelles.
41 To Paris.
42 To Berlin.
43 Speech of April 2nd, 1917.
44 Message of December 4th, 1917.
45 Declaration of September 27th, 1918.
46 In 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.”
47 In the original—
And in the level dust be laid,” etc.
48 The former Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna.
49 During 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.”
50 The ideal is reached for a moment only.