Documente britanice şi problema Basarabiei în 1940
British Documents and the Question of Bessarabia in 1940

Summary/Abstract: For almost 50 years we had to endure misfortunes caused by the clashes of opinions among the Great Powers. If, from the perspective of the external factor, this seems to be the reality, from the perspective of the internal factor we should look more attentively at the mistakes we have done during the inter-war period. It is these mistakes that have weakened the fundament of the parliamentary democracy in Romania and generated the "metastasis" of the political system after 1918. When we renounced at one third of the national teritory, in the summer of 1940, without even firing one single gun shoot, we should look into it and see if only the state reason determined us to do such a thing or also the mistakes of approach of the crisis situation. Our short considerations have been made from this perspective and with the intention of warning the reader that, beyond the external factor, there is also an internal responsability in analising some historical periods. It is also Romania’s case in 1940, the presented documents constituting an additional contribution in the analisys and variation of the historical events that did not occur in this period.

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