Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-12
IN THE DAYS NEWS
Rumania.

While the controversy over Presi- dent Wilson's reference to the obliga- tions of the league of nations to Ru- mania may have political stress, his- tory probably will be more interested in another phase of the question, that is, Rumania's hopes and fears upon entering the war.
 l Rumania's reasons for entering the war on the side of the allies are out lined in a communication to the Ma i tional Geographic Society by John l Oliver LaGorce as follows:
 Few states in history have been | called to such momentouS decisions as Rumania faced when. 1t plunged bold | 1y into the Niagara of blood and car mage that had rolled down over Europe for two long years.
 But both hope and fear beckoned | the Rumanians-the hope of greater Rumania and the fear of a strangled homeland.
 "The brave people of this little king dom-for before the war 1t was less than one-fifth as big as Texas-have many proverbs. The water passeth and the stone remains they say, re- ferring to their own persistence as a people in spite of the floods of human ity that have swept over their terri tory.
 In the whirlpool of racial rivaIries
 of southeastern Europe-where Ro-
 man and Goth, Hun and Slav, Magyar and Mongel, with all of their descend 1 ant peoples, have run over one an- other and have been run over in turn fate left the Rumanians in the ma
 jority in a territory of more than 90.-
 900 square miles. It scattered more
 than 12,000,000 of themS over these
 lands-more than 100000 in Ru-
 mania itself and some 5,000,00O else where. In Bessarabia, a province of
 HOOD miles and 2.600,000 population belonging in 1914 to Russia, two thirds
 of the people are Rumanians; in Tran , sylvania, the eastern part of old Hum gary, a land of 21.000 square miles
 and having a population of 2,50o.000
 60 per cent Rumania claims, are Ru- . manians; in Bukowina, formerly al , Austrian crownland of 4,000 square f miles and 100000 population. mor'
 than half are said to be Rumanians q And so 100000 people yearne' : for a restored Rumania-all ethno graphic Rumania under the flag o
 political Rumania. If their countr.
 remained neutral, they reasoned. ther
 would be no chance for such a happ
 result. They might, they felt. ge something out of Russia if the Cent-a
 Powers won with Rumania on thei
 side; but Pennsylvania and Bukow'n 1 WOuIu SlllI pc DeyOHu NneT EIdSb. VI
 the other hand, they believed Rus7i
 would give them Bessarabia as a priZ
 for participation on her side. and tn \ allies Bukowina and Pennsylvania O g condition of an allied victory. g But if hope of a reunited Rumsni
 appealed to the Rumanians the fea s of strangulation, if not extinction s turned the scale positively to the caus . of the allies. ' If an unfriendly Russia should gai = control of Constantinople as a resu ;, of an entente allies victory. said thi n writer, it would inevitably mean in n straneulation of Rumania. With th n fruition of her hopes and the diss.pa = tion of her fears both seemingly O r one side. there seemed to be bat on l. horn to Rumania's dilemma.
 IT "Rumania's insistence upon assui e ances at the Paris conference recal d that she once was robbed of the spoi
 of victory. When the conflict betwee e Russia and Turkey was impending t. 1875, Carol first attempted to have u