Everything that we saw bore evidence of the strictest order and discipline.

None of us could think it possible that the Empire was on the eve of a revolution, and when the Emperor Francis Joseph questioned me on my return as to whether I had reason to believe that a revolution would occur, I discountenanced the idea most emphatically.
This did not please the old Emperor.

He said afterwards to one of his suite: "Czernin has given a correct account of Roumania, but he must have been asleep when he passed through Russia." 3 The development of Roumanian affairs during the war occurs in three phases, the first of which was in King Carol's reign.

Then neutrality was guaranteed.

On the other hand, it was not possible during those months to secure Roumania's co-operation because we, in the first period of the war, were so unfavourably situated in a military sense that public opinion in Roumania would not voluntarily have consented to a war at our side, and, as already mentioned, such forcible action would not have met with the King's approval.
In the second phase of the war, dating from King Carol's death to our defeat at Luck, conditions were quite different.