The feeling in certain circles fluctuated for some days.

Roumanians had a great respect for Germany's military power, and the year 1870 was still fresh in the memory of many of them.

When England, however, joined the ranks of our adversaries their fears vanished, and from that moment it became obvious to the large majority of the Roumanians that the realisation of their aspirations was merely a question of time and of diplomatic efficiency.

The wave of hatred and lust of conquest that broke over us in the first stage of the war was much stronger than in later stages, because the Roumanians made the mistake we all have committed of reckoning on too short a duration of the war, and therefore imagined the decision to be nearer at hand than it actually was.

After the great German successes in the West, after Goerlitz and the downfall of Serbia, certain tendencies pointing to a policy of delay became noticeable among the Roumanians.