Anul 1919 şi Curtea Regală a României: Conferinţa de Pace de la Paris şi vizita suveranilor în Transilvania
1919 and the Royal Court of Romania: The Paris Peace Conference and the visit of the sovereigns in Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: 1919 was a crucial one for Greater Romania, because the new political reality, the Great Union, had to be recognized internationally, so that all the sacrifice and war effort of the Romanian soldiers and officers and those who had joined them, not to be in vain. In Paris, the Romanian diplomacy was going to make extraordinary efforts so that Romania was not to be just a state with limited or special interests, as it had been established for the small states, but to acknowledge its contribution to the battlefield and the fact that it strictly adhered to the conditions established by the signing of the treaty of alliance with the powers of the Entente. During the debates, the head of the Romanian delegation at the Peace Conference, Ion I.C.Brătianu, pleded for the Allies’ compliance with the political agreement of August 4th, 1916 on the borders of Romania, underlined the Romanian army blood contribution to the Entente victory, highlighted the decisions taken by the assemblies in Chişinău, Cernăuţi and Alba Iulia in accordance with the people’s right to national self determination. The "Big Four" did not seem receptive to Bratianu’s arguments and did not like the idea that the states are equal, as they were equal in the sacrifices made on the battlefield. As a result, a tense stated between Ion I.C. Bratianu and the "Big Four”, fact that could affect the decisions regarding Romania. In that context, at Bratianu’s suggestion, King Ferdinand proposed to the Queen Maria to go to Paris to plead for Romania’s cause. 33 Transylvania where they joined the National Guards, in the event of a possible military conflict with Serbia. Some even saw as a certainty a conflict breaking out between the two countries, that was only avoided by the direct intervention of the Great Powers. The subject remains open for debate, however, as the Romanian sources on this issue must be corroborated with those in the Serbian archives.

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