In February 1915, Brăila's Voltaire Circle held a benefit in favor of "poet B. Nemțeanu, whose illness forces him to live abroad." Nemțeanu's stay in Lausanne ended with Romania's entry into World War I, when his colleagues were no longer able to support him. He was forced to move closer to home, in the sanitariums of Bușteni, then Moinești. This period coincided with the battles on the Romanian front, during which Bucharest fell to the Germans. During the interval in which Romania sued for peace, and before the defeat of Germany, he collaborated with the literary newspaper "Scena", put out in Bucharest by A. de Herz.