Ranetti returned with books only in 1914, when he issued another standalone volume of prose, "Matache Pisălog" ("Matache the Bore"). In May, just before the start of World War I, George and Anastase Ranetti returned with Ion Gorun on a cultural tour of Transylvania, attending Romanian-only events in Arad and Șiria. Writing an epigram in honor of Vasile Goldiș, Ranetti was there as a delegate of both the Romanian Journalists' Syndicate and Iorga's Cultural League for the Unity of All Romanians. Shortly after, Ranetti and "Furnica" joined a coalition of Francophiles and nationalists, supporting neutral Romania's alliance with the Entente Powers.