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Teodor Pavel: Wold War I and Revolutionary Options in Central-Eastern Europe: the Project of the "Insurrection" of Romania at the End of the Year 1917
fact which results also from the Russian-German negotiations in Brest- Litovsk in the following months. It seems that the Romanian authorities intuit even in March-April 1917 the threads of the conspiracy in which “the King and the royal family were to be caught and sent to Russia to [ share] a similar fate to that of the Russian dynasty”13. The testimony given by N. Iorga can't be doubted. At Iorga's suggestion and mediated by the Bolshevik militant Al. Dobrogeanu-Gherea, the BrGtianu government organized the meeting of a Romanian delegation composed of 10 parlamentaires lead by Dr. N. Lupu with the Soviet of the Russian army in Iassy. At the meeting which took place in April 1917, the leader of the Romanian delegation reproached his interlocutors their interference in the inner affairs of the Romanian State and the disturbing of the internal order:”Why do you interfere in Romanian's affairs and why do you want to leave the impression that you are not at all different from the tsarist empire, which always interfered into our affairs from here? Let us alone; we know and we will make our reforms which are compatible with the country”14. As a result, the Soviet of the Russian soldiers from Iassy issued a manifesto addressed to the Russian troupes in Moldavia, in which they urged on the respecting of the order and quietness in the provisoire capital of Romania. Being informed about the actions which were to be taken against the dynasty and the Romanian state, king Ferdinand and the BrGtianu - Take Ionescu government put their last hopes of salvation on the spirit of sacrifice of the Romanian soldier. Going to the front in the middle of the soldiers of the Army II, the king addressed in Răcăciuni (Bacău) the famous Proclamation in March 23rd/April 5th 1917, in which he reaffirms the decision of the Romanian political class to carry out the great reforms - agrarian and electoral ones - in concordance with the will of the Constituente Assembly in 1914 and with the message sent by the throne to the Legislative Bodies in December 1916. The promise of the carrying out of the agrarian and electoral reforms was repeated by the king in April 23rd- May 4lh, 1917: ”1 by herewith reinforce once again my royal promise that after the victory which we all await you will become lawful masters of the fields you conquered with your own blood and you will take active part in World War I and Revolutionary Options 13 Nicolae Iorga, Istoria Românilor (The History of the Romanians), vol. X, p. 383. 14 The declaration of. dr. Lupu in the meeting of the Romanian Parlament from 13th February 1920, in Dezbaterile Adunării Deputaţilor (The Debates of the Deputies Assembly), nr. 36, the meeting from 13th February 1920, p. 527, Cf. Ion Scurtu, op.cit.. p. 40. 91
