Vasile Stoica Vasile Stoica ( , also known as Basil Stoica ; 1889 – 1959 ) was a Romania n political writer , diplomat , and close assistant of European statesmen Tomáš Masaryk and Ion I . C . Brătianu . Early life and education . Stoica was born in a family that originated from Transylvania ( then in the Hungarian half of Austria - Hungary , but now in Romania ) ; according to his birth certificate , Vasile Stoica was born in Avrig on January 1 , 1889 . He was the son of Maria and Gheorghe Stoica , Romanians belonging to the Christian Orthodox faith . He attended elementary school in Avrig . His interest for the politics is proved by his status as one the members of the Romanian National Party of Transylvania and Banat , from 1909 . From September same year , Vasile Stoica followed the courses of Literature at Budapest University , until 1913 ; two semesters at University of Paris Faculty of Letters . In October 1913 , he became president of the cultural organization of the " Petru Maior " ethnic Romanians undergraduates in Budapest . World War I . Upon Austria - Hungary ' s declaration of war on Serbia that led to the outbreak of World War I , Vasile Stoica was a teacher . In August – September , Stoica worked as a " redactor - answerable " at " Românul " , the leading Romanian language newspaper in Austria - Hungary . In October 1914 , he choose to leave the Empire to avoid conscription , and headed for Bucharest , in still - neutral Romania . He tried to work for Romanian Army , in the new Air Force , but he was rejected . He carried on his activity of publicist to the newspapers " Adevărul " , " Universul " , " Flacăra " , " Naţionalul " . Meanwhile , he abnegated his Austro - Hungarian citizenship for the Romanian one . At the Congress of Romanians refugees to Romania , in March 1915 , Stoica stated that " " the desire to be a part of a great and free Romania is not the result of the context " " . The introduction to the book " Habsburgii , ungurii şi românii " ( " The Habsburgs , the Hungarians and Romanians " ) , dated May 1 , written by Vasile Stoica and Ion Rusu Abrudeanu . The authors plead for Romanian intervention against Austria - Hungary . In August , Stoica lead the Congress of the undergraduates in Galaţi . He published another , more radical book , " Suferinţele din Ardeal " ( " Sufferings in Transylvania " ) , in Bucharest in the summer of 1916 . The young author ’ s book is a " " declaration of war " " against Austria - Hungary . In June , an Austro - Hungarian Army court - martial in Cluj sentenced him to death " in absentia " . At the end of August 1916 , the Romanian government , impressed by the early success of the Brusilov Offensive , declared war on Germany and Austria - Hungary . King Ferdinand ’ s " Proclamation " to the Army , drafted by Stoica along with the proclamation for the Romanian public opinion , read : He subsequently fought in the Romanian Army against invading German forces in Oltenia , and followed the Romanian troops in their retreat to Moldavia . In March 1917 , Stoica ( by then a second lieutenant ) was a member of a group of exiled Romanian Habsburg subjects who were sent as a delegation to the United States to campaign Romania ' s cause . The envoys also established close contacts with the Czech Tomáš Masaryk and the Polish Ignacy Jan Paderewski . He was instrumental in the creation of the " Romanian National League of America " in July , some months after America joined the Entente forces ; among other things , the " League " , centered in Youngstown , Ohio , helped direct the war effort and participation of the Romanian - American community towards the US forces on the Western Front . Stephen P . Duggan wrote on December 10 , 1920 : Marriage . Vasile Stoica married Ines ( Nessy ) Longhi de Sobione . Born January 21 , 1898 in Parma , Italy , she came to Romania in 1927 . Their marriage ended in divorce sometime prior to 1940 . Ines Longhi died on February 16 , 1956 while married to her second husband , Carol Ardeleanu , ( né Köhler ) an ethnic German from Transylvania . Postwar Imprisonment under Communist Rule . He was imprisoned from 1948 to 1954 and in 1957 was arrested again and sentenced to 10 years in prison . He died in Sighet prison in 1959 . Further reading . Stoica , Vasile . " The Roumanian Question : The Roumanians and their Lands " . Pittsburgh : Pittsburgh Printing Company ( 1919 ) .