Revista Minerva - Editura FRM

        *                     "So this eventuality - continues Titulescu - must find us allies with Russia. (it should be emphasized that these words were written a year before the signing of the Treaty of sad memory - Ribbentrop - Molotov of August 23, 1939). I consider Franco-Romanian friendship as an axiom: the Russian-Romanian one is an inevitable axiom. Then France and Czechoslovakia, being allied with the USSR, we cannot continue to remain isolated. It is said today that the difference in ideology would be an obstacle for German-Russian rapprochement. But how long can this obstacle exist? Nobody knows; in any case it will not be eternal. How important it is that Romania concluded the assistance pact with Russia before the German- Russian rapprochement took place; then Russia will consider it useless. I put in these statements all the weight of the political judgment that I have for almost 25 years of public life”.6 This was the clairvoyant Nicolae Titulescu, the one about wh